The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster by Daniel Webster
The object of the present volume is not to supersede the standardedition of Daniel Webster's Works, in six octavo volumes, edited byEdward Everett, and originally issued in the year 1851, by...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Good--A Dialogue by G. Lowes Dickinson
How do the waves along the level shore Follow and fly in hurrying sheets of foam, For ever doing what they did before, For ever climbing what is never clomb! Is there an end to their perpetual haste,...
View ArticleSanto Domingo by Otto Schoenrich
It is remarkable how little has been written about the DominicanRepublic, a country so near to our shores, which has for years hadintimate commercial and political relations with our country, which...
View ArticleThe Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred thingsmight be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A bookmay be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dullwithout a...
View ArticleA Desperate Character and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev
i. Rudin. ii. A House of Gentlefolk. iii. On the Eve. iv. Fathers and Children. v. Smoke. vi. & vii. Virgin Soil. 2 Vols. viii, & ix. A Sportsman's Sketches. 2 Vols. x. Dream Tales and Prose...
View ArticleDavid Elginbrod by George MacDonald
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View ArticleThe Zeppelin's Passenger by E. Phillips Oppenheim
"Never heard a sound," the younger of the afternoon callersadmitted, getting rid of his empty cup and leaning forward in hislow chair. "No more tea, thank you, Miss Fairclough. Donesplendidly, thanks....
View ArticleScenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac
Etext prepared by Dagny, dagnyj@hotmail.comBonnie Salaand John Bickers, jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nzSCENES FROM A COURTESAN'S LIFEby Honore de BalzacTranslated by James WaringPREPARER'S NOTE Note:...
View ArticleOmoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville
CHAPTER I. MY RECEPTION ABOARD CHAPTER II. SOME ACCOUNT OF THE SHIP CHAPTER III. FURTHER ACCOUNT OF THE JULIA CHAPTER IV. A SCENE IN THE FORECASTLE CHAPTER V. WHAT HAPPENED AT HYTYHOO CHAPTER VI. WE...
View ArticleThe Jerusalem Sinner Saved by John Bunyan
THE JERUSALEM SINNER SAVED;or,GOOD NEWS FOR THE VILEST OF MENby John BunyanBEGINNING AT JERUSALEM.--Luke xxiv. 47.The whole verse runs thus: "And that repentance and remission ofsins should be preached...
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