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In the Fall of 1892 the professors of Princeton Seminary asked Dr. John D. Wells, long-time pastor in Brooklyn, NY, to come and deliver three lectures on the subject of ministering to the sick and dying. Wells, himself a graduate of Princeton in the 1840's, spoke to the students in such an effective and passionate way that the professors later asked Wells to have these lectures published. This book is the result of that request. Jerry Bridges...

This book will develop a child's reading skills and imagination. Children have a natural curiosity and desire to learn. Learning is supposed to be fun. If reading is fun, the child will be motivated to learn and learning will naturally follow. Children begin with a backwards approach to reading, in that they see the pictures as the story and the words as meaningless. By having the child illustrate the story, the child naturally learns that the...

Excerpt from The Owl and the NightingaleParker New for my obligations to them indicated at the head of the texts. I am very grateful for the kindness of Professor Frederick M. Padelford of the University of Washington, who collated my final copy for the Cot ton text with the Cotton ms.To Professor 0. F. Emerson of Western Reserve Uni versity and to Professor Richard Jones of Vanderbilt University, I owe especial thanks for their kind concern t...

Excerpt from Wells' Illustrated National Hand-Book: Embracing a Complete Compendium of the Political History of the United States, From the Original Formation of the Government to the Present Time [The following articles were drawn up by a committee of gentlemen, who were appointed by Congress for this purpose, June 12, 1776, and finally adopted, Nov. 15, 1777: the committee were Messrs. Bartlett, Samuel Adams, Hopkins, Sherman, R. R. Livings...

Excerpt from Swazy Folks and Others Poems A Good friend has made objections to the title of this book, saying: "People don't know where Swazy is!" O, but they do! Every one has his Swazy - long "a, " please, as in "hayin'." Every one knows that Swazy is any place where the population is sparse, where the cider mill and the shingle factory mark the line where the village leaves off and the open country begins, where "Town Meetin'" and Firemen'...

Excerpt from Wells' National Hand-Book: Embracing Numerous Invaluable Documents Connected With the Political History of America He has refused bis assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his absent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has ...

Excerpt from The Pastor in the Sick-Room: Three Lectures Delivered at Princeton Theological Seminary, March, 1892 This little volume is made up of three lectures delivered to the students of Princeton Theological Seminary in March, 1892. They are now pub lished at the request of the professors Who heard them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com T...

Excerpt from Your Folks and Mine "Your Folks and Mine" The Homecomers. Gossip? Yes, if you call it that, Settin' here where we gethered at Years ago - t' recall again Folks an' things as we knowed 'em then, Spots an' faces that like as not, One or other - or both - fergot! Loafin' around from place t' place, 'Long the crick or the gris'-mill race - Paths, no odds where they twist an' bend, Lead us away to some old-time friend. What's ...

Illus. in black-and-white. When a turn-of-the-century scientist travels into the distant future in his time machine, he expects to find progress and superior people. But instead he discovers a world in decay. Reading level: 2.4.

Sieben Fremde treffen sich aus mysteriösen Gründen in einem einsamen englischen Landhaus. Als einer von ihnen glaubt, die anderen aus einem Traum zu kennen, fühlen die sich an eigene unheimliche Erlebnisse erinnert. Im Laufe des Tages erzählen sie einander ihre furchtbaren Geschichten. Als die letzte der fünf Episoden endet, ist es finstere Nacht - und die Fremden erfahren endlich den schrecklichen Grund, warum sie sich im Landhaus befinden ...

Sieben Fremde treffen sich aus mysteriösen Gründen in einem einsamen englischen Landhaus. Als einer von ihnen glaubt, die anderen aus einem Traum zu kennen, fühlen die sich an eigene unheimliche Erlebnisse erinnert. Im Laufe des Tages erzählen sie einander ihre furchtbaren Geschichten. Als die letzte der fünf Episoden endet, ist es finstere Nacht - und die Fremden erfahren endlich den schrecklichen Grund, warum sie sich im Landhaus befinden ...

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" repeats in Chen Fangyuan's mind after he finds himself trapped in a valley holding a community of people for whom a disease eliminated their vision many generations before and no longer have a concept of sight. Chen Fangyuan quickly finds that these people have developed their other senses to compensate for their lack of sight. His insistence that he can see causes the entire community to ...

A cautionary tale of the horrors that can ensue when man experiments with nature, from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells. A lonely island in the Pacific. The sinister scientist who rules it. And the strange beings who dwell there… This is the scenario for H. G. Wells's haunting classic, one of his most intriguing and visionary novels. Living in the late nineteenth century and facing the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution, Wells wro...

Excerpt from The Gateway to the Polynia: A Voyage to Spitzbergen Only a Fly - Summer Beverages - Whale Adventure - Death of the Whale - Flencing the Whale - Wasted Ice - The Dreamer - Cunning of the Bear Enthusiastic Nimrods - Dead Whale - The Farmer - Bear Outwitted - Awkward Complication - Deep Sea Soundings, Miller-Casella Thermometer - Southerly Drift of Ice - Various Observations - Temperature Table - Diary Extracts - Star-Fish - End of ...

Here are two masterpieces of irony and imaginative vision from the father of science fiction. "The Time Machine" propels the Time Traveller into a distant, dismal future. "The Invisible Man" tells of a brash young scientist who becomes invisible, then insane. This volume features a new Afterword. Revised reissue.

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Excerpt from Hon. Walter Lowrie In 1811 he was elected to the Senate of Pennsylvania, and after serving the State seven years in this office, he was sent to the Senate of the United States. At the expiration of his term of service, in 1824, he was made Secretary of the Senate, and held the office twelve years. Owing to the peculiarly delicate nature of this office, and the responsibility connected with it, it did not change incumbents with s...

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