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Excerpt from The New Lucian: Being a Series of Dialogues of the Dead West. How strange, Bishop, that we Should never have met before! I arrived here in the very next boat after yours 1 our obols must have clinked together in the ferryman's pouch. Yet a decade has nearly passed, according to earthly reckoning, ere we have fallen in with each other. Surprising! Wile. Hardly so to me, my lord. I have never sought - forgive me - the society of l...

Excerpt from Shaftesbury (the First Earl) On the whole, it seems to me that, if Shaftesbury's apologists sinned against the injunction to nothing extenuate, ' the severest of his censors have no less certainly defied the prohibition to set down aught I have striven to the best of my ability to steer a middle course between them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.f...

Excerpt from Social England, Vol. 3: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature and Manners, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techn...

Excerpt from Social England, Vol. 1: A Record of the Progress of the People in Religion, Laws, Learning, Arts, Industry, Commerce, Science, Literature and Manners, From the Earliest Times to the Present Day Such a treatment of the history of a people must obviously follow one or other of two methods. Either their forward movement, from the first rude and simple beginnings of Society to the complexity of modern life, may be viewed throughout a...

Excerpt from The Medicine Man Scene. - The Lecture Hall and Reading Room of "University House": a settlement for the poor of East London. Time, 9 p. m., a wild night in March, a snow storm raging without. At intervals during the scene men enter the hall through door c, which they shut with difficulty after them, kicking the snow from their heavy boots. The lecture platform to R. of stage consists of a low dais but one step above the floor, an...

Excerpt from Central Government IN order to explain the scheme and general char acter of this volume, it is necessary to say a few words about the series of which it forms the com mencement. The English Citizen Series is intended to meet the demand for accessible information on the ordinary conditions and the current terms of our political life. In this, its first volume, it deals with the machinery whereby our Constitution works, and the bro...

Excerpt from From Cairo to the Soudan Frontier The sketches here published pretend to no other character than that of a record of im pressions derived from a couple of brief tours in Egypt during the winters of 1893-4 and 189 5-6. But it is hoped that their interest, such as it is - and some interest can hardly fail to attach to any truthful description of one of the most interesting countries in the world may have been to some extent enhance...

Excerpt from Social England, Vol. 6 February 3, 1820. Cruikshank visited the place in order to draw the interior, and drew the fight from a description. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the...

Excerpt from The New Fiction and Other Essays: On Literary Subjects A lad of sixteen, afterwards destined to play an important part in the story, then approaches. He smites one of the Devil's Row children on the back of the head, and the little boy falls to the ground and gives a tremendous howl. A reinforcement of the Rum Alley children then arrives, and there is a momentary pause in the fight, during which Jimmie becomes involved in a quarr...

Excerpt from Among My BooksAs a proof of this I would instance the unhappi ness of finding yourself positively disliking and despising some book written, it may be, by an acquaintance, which is enjoying great popularity. To take it up only to find its 'pathos' repulsive.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important his...

Excerpt from Lord StraffordHis life, in short, was the life of the Absolutist cause, his temporary mastery its ¿eeting hope, his defeat and death its destruction.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving ...

Excerpt from William the Third Parliament of 1690 - Tory majority - Settlement of the royal income - Case of the Princess Anne - The Act of Grace - Detection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preservi...

A biography of the author of 'The Life and Times of Tristam Shandy

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