Library Of Alexandria imprint: 887 books

by Marietta Holley
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

Our son, Thomas Jefferson, and his wife, Maggie, have been wadin’ through a sea of trouble. He down with inflamatory rumatiz so a move or jar of any kind, a fly walkin’ over the bedclothes, would most drive him crazy; and she with nervious prostration, brought on I spoze by nussin’ her pardner...
by Samuel de Champlain
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

The labors and achievements of the navigators and explorers, who visited our coasts between the last years of the fifteenth and the early years of the seventeenth centuries, were naturally enough not fully appreciated by their contemporaries, nor were their relations to the future growth of European...
by Daniel Webster
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

A PRELIMINARY RETROSPECT. To properly understand the condition of things preceding the great war of the Rebellion, and the causes underlying that condition and the war itself, we must glance backward through the history of the Country to, and even beyond, that memorable 30th of November, 1782, when the...
by J. H. Ingraham
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

THE BOATMAN. Still shorter was a short winter’s day rendered by a heavy and gloomy mist that filled the atmosphere and made it murky twilight long before the sun went down. It had just ended, in blasts and pelting rain, when a Thames boatman, chilled and wet by exposure, and with a pair of oars...
by Hutchins Hapgood
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

EARLY VOYAGES Paul left Mr. Younger's service in 1766 and acquired a sixth interest in a ship called King George's Packet, in which he went, as first mate, to the West Indies. The business instinct, always strong in him, received some satisfaction during this voyage by the transportation of blacks from...
by Hugh Lundsford
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

The officer whose collar ornaments were the winged staff and serpents of the medical branch, held what was left of the deck in his right hand and moistened the tip of his thumb against the tip of his tongue. “Reënforcements, major?” he inquired with a glance to the man at his left, and the poker...
by William Carew Hazlitt
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

In these days many strange, true stories about animals are being written and read, but it seems to me that some of our most intimate and interesting animal companions are being overlooked. So I have tried to write about a few of them. These stories are true. I know this, for Mary and I have really seen...
by Gilbert Parker
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

In a Foreword to Donovan Pasha, published in 1902, I used the following words: "It is now twelve years since I began giving to the public tales of life in lands well known to me. The first of them were drawn from Australia and the islands of the southern Pacific, where I had lived and roamed...
by Emily Eden
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

IN the autumn of 1913 a Life of Lord Clarendon was published, and among many of his letters were a few written to him by an old friend, Miss Eden. It was thought that a further selection of Emily Eden’s letters might be of interest. She was a keen politician of the Whig order, clever, amusing, critical,...
by William le Queux
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

The Advent of the Stranger. The shabby stranger seated himself familiarly in a nook beside the wide-open chimney of the tap-room, and stretched out his long thin legs with a sigh. “I want something to eat; a bit of cold meat, or bread and cheese—anything you have handy—and a glass of beer. I’m...
by William H. Ukers
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

Civilization in its onward march has produced only three important non-alcoholic beverages—the extract of the tea plant, the extract of the cocoa bean, and the extract of the coffee bean. Leaves and beans—these are the vegetable sources of the world's favorite non-alcoholic table-beverages. Of the...
by Earl of Thomas Cochrane Dundonald
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

TO THE MOST NOBLE THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, K.G. ETC. ETC. My Lord, I am proud to have been honoured with your Lordship's permission to dedicate to you the following narrative of historical events, respecting which the public has not previously been placed in a position to form a correct judgment. Your...
by U. James Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

THIS small portrait gallery of British generals represents, in fair epitome, the drama of British history. Each of the officers who figure here has behind him a varied story of fighting in strange places, under all sorts of conditions, as well as in the tense atmosphere of modern scientific war; each...
by Sir Charles Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009

The present work was begun in 1907 and was practically complete when the war broke out, but many circumstances such as the difficulty of returning home, unavoidable delays in printing and correcting proofs, and political duties have deferred its publication until now. In the interval many important books...
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