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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

In this hilarious - but true - story, a lazy, unfocused and undisciplined slacker blithers his way to the top of the banking world. Laugh along as the author shares the many mistakes and detours in his career as he climbs his way to be a captain of commerce. As part of the journey, he shares his life lessons and insights into the corporate world and its mysterious ways. Dr. Whitten is a Canadian lawyer with a doctorate in Business Administrati...

Excerpt from A Londoner's LondonPreface, he said, always put him in mind of Hamlet's exclamation to the tardy player, Leave thy damnable faces, and begin 1 I delay to begin only to explain that the London of these pages is not the measureless town of the guide-books: that London on which a hundred and fifty years ago Horace Walpole began a book, only to faint and fail: that London which, still earlier, had been called a county covered with hou...

Excerpt from Pastimes for Sick Children and Rainy Day Occupations for Those Who Are WellAt the beginning Of life the higher centers of the brain have slight development and function, hence the powers of inhibition are then feebly exercised. This explains the irritability and lack of control so Often seen, and means that much patience and understanding must be exercised in training the young.The child exhibits the elemental human forces and ins...

In this hilarious - but true - story, a lazy, unfocused and undisciplined slacker blithers his way to the top of the banking world. Laugh along as the author shares the many mistakes and detours in his career as he climbs his way to be a captain of commerce. As part of the journey, he shares his life lessons and insights into the corporate world and its mysterious ways. Dr. Whitten is a Canadian lawyer with a doctorate in Business Administrati...

Excerpt from Application of Seth M. Whitten, of Indiana, for the Office of Sergeant-at-Arms, of the United States Senate: With Endorsements, Official and Private Letters and Papers Which Briefly Show His Civil and Military Services, the Origin, Character and Degree of His Physical Disabilities, and an Argument Showing the Political Preferment for Office of Rebels Over UnionI have been the sole editor and compiler of it, and, while in process O...

Excerpt from London in SongThis order is almost chronological. Pageantry and the keeping of festivals, having nearly vanished from London life, no longer inspire our poets. The notion of hailing and celebrating London on high occasions seems alien to modern ideas. One may regret this one may regret that the opportunities of last year were not taken, and that of the many poets who apostrophised the Empire and England a few did not glorify Londo...

Excerpt from London in SongThis order is almost chronological. Pageantry and the keeping of festivals, having nearly vanished from London life, no longer inspire our poets. The notion of hailing and celebrating London on high occasions seems alien to modern ideas. One may regret this one may regret that the opportunities of last year were not taken, and that of the many poets who apostrophised the Empire and England a few did not glorify Londo...

Excerpt from John G. Whittier: A Biographical SketchAnd let us hope, as well we can, That the silent angel who garners man May find some grain as of old he found In the human cornfield ripe and sound, And the Lord of the Harvest deign to own The precious seed by the fathers sown!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 impo...

Excerpt from An Evaluation of Methods for Determining the Linters Content of CottonseedPrincipal differences in the methods of analysis are the means by which the cottonseed are fumed. Fuming can be accomplished by means of heat under pressure, under normal atmospheric conditions and in partial vacuum. In this study, fuming under normal atmospheric conditions and under vacuum were used. Under consideration were the forced-draft method, the inf...

Excerpt from An Evaluation of Methods for Determining the Linters Content of CottonseedPrincipal differences in the methods of analysis are the means by which the cottonseed are fumed. Fuming can be accomplished by means of heat under pressure, under normal atmospheric conditions and in partial vacuum. In this study, fuming under normal atmospheric conditions and under vacuum were used. Under consideration were the forced-draft method, the inf...

Excerpt from Quaker PicturesIN a work on Quaker Pictures the first place naturally falls to portraits of George Fox. These are several in number. The earliest ofthcm we owe to Gerard iionthorst, a Dutch artist ofconsiderable repute in his day, and a native of Utrecht. It was while executing some commissions for Charles I. That Honthorst sclzedtheoppmtu111t\ otsketching the voung enthusiast whose name was doubtless already known at the court. H...