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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excerpt from Digby Grand, an AutobiographyI was brought up a dandy - that was the word in my younger days. From the time I left the nursery, the first lesson inculcated on my youthful mind was Digby, hold up your head, and look like a gentleman. Mister Digby, don't dirty your boots, like the poor people's children. I lost my mother when still a baby, so my ideas of her are chie¿y drawn from her portrait in the dining-room - a fair and beautifu...

Excerpt from Songs and Verses: Bones and I or the Skeleton at HomeAbout 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 the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an i...

Excerpt from Contraband, Vol. 2 of 2: Or a Losing HazardBut if the pain was in your heart this general practitioner buckled on her armour with yet greater alacrity, and confronted the enemy on a far more vigorous system of tactics. She refrained indeed, wisely enough, from prematurely assault ing his stronghold, but attacked his outworks one by one with unflinching determination, so that the citadel, deprived on all sides of its sup ports, wav...

Excerpt from Uncle John, Vol. 2 of 3: A NovelWell, I'm sure! One would suppose you were a young girl, my dear, waiting for a lover. That's the fourth time you've fidgeted to the window. And I think you teach your hus band very bad manners, bringing his slippers into the drawing-room, as if you were going to pull his boots off yourself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www...

Excerpt from Sarchedon, Vol. 3 of 3He had thought to Slay it but no, it was not in him to do the creature harm, as he stood watching it with wistful eyes, and bitter thoughts, and a strange sad feeling of compassion at his heart.Uncoiling many a sleek and glistening fold, it worked its way Slowly, painfully, traversing in all its length and breadth the surface of that pitiless pavement, so different from the dank morass and tangled brake for w...

Excerpt from The Brookes of Bridlemere, Vol. 3 of 3Philip, coming home from business, that even ing was formally repudiated by the fickle young lady, who announced her approaching nuptials with Good Blair, as She called him, in a tone of becoming solemnity. He could not but laugh at the gravity with which Dot administered consola tion for his disappointment, assuring him that on her wedding trip, to the place where the beasts are, like my Noah...

Excerpt from M. Or Similia Similibus Curantur, Vol. 1 of 2Eyed Marie, praying her heart out to the Virgin on her knees, feeling, as the fierce wind howls and blusters round their hut, that not.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 re...

Excerpt from Roy's Wife, Vol. 1 of 2: A NovelNone of your Scotch pints, dear to hard-headed North Britons of the last century, not even an imperial pint, containing only one-fourth of the former measure, but an hotel pint, in hotel limits, of hotel vintage, at hotel price. Sound, no doubt, though rough and fruity, strong, full-¿avoured, and exceedingly restorative to body and mind.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousa...

Excerpt from Tilbury NogoThat they are but an unconnected series of scenes and occurrences, usually resulting in his own discomfiture and disappointment, he is obliged in common candour to confess. That a simple te lation of such untoward facts may deter others from follies to which they have no inclination, and efforts of Which they are physically incapable, is the earnest hope of a disgusted individual, whose only claim to consideration is h...

Excerpt from The True Cross: A Legend of the ChurchVisions to bid my heart stand still with awe, Dim, shadowy shapes and phantoms of the Dead. While ever, like a funeral pall outspread, Sad, slow, and solemn, moved from place to place A sable cloud of mourning overhead.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 hist...

Excerpt from Black but Comely, or the Adventures of Jane Lee, Vol. 3 of 3Racing, too, though an exciting pastime, is not without a reaction, tending to make its votaries especially the losers - thoughtful and depressed.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 ...

Excerpt from RosineHe has not much to boast of, yet does he pride himself with some reason on the good looks, good digestion, good Spirits, and good manners that, in a world like his, give him the reputation of a good heart.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...

Excerpt from The Gladiators, Vol. 1 of 3: A Tale of Rome and JudaeaThen a sad smile steals over the haughty face, the stern beauty softens in the. Gleam, and, for a while, the daughter of Ceres is a laughing girl once more.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-...