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by RickBrannan » Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:49 am. The Protevangelium of James (or proto-gospel of James) has been known for centuries. We have hundreds of manuscripts, as I recall, and it wends its way through all sorts of other Christian Apocrypha. The earliest Greek manuscript dates back to the fourth century, there are scads from the 10th-17th ...
The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealths, the germs of empires. The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly. Lights of ships moved in the fairway— a great stir of lights going up and going down.
This PDF ebook was created by JoséMenéndez. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” first appeared in Washington Irving’s collection of stories, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., published in 1819. The text and illustrations used in this ebook are from the revised edition of the Sketch Book, published in 1863.
Author: Henry James, 1843–1916 First published: 1898 The original book is in the public domain in the United States and in most, if not all, other countries as well. Readers outside the United States should check their own countries’ copyright laws to be certain they can legally download this ebook. The Online Books Page has an FAQ which ...
TWICE-TOLD TALES. BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. TWO VOLUMES. JAMES MUNROE & CO.: BOSTON. We have always regarded the Tale (using this word in its popular acceptation) as affording the best prose opportunity for display of the highest talent. It has peculiar advantages which the novel does not admit. It is, of course, a far finer field than the essay.
This PDF ebook was created by JoséMenéndez. O NE dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied.
Based on the copy-text Plays by Anton Tchekov, translated from the Russian by Constance Garnett, New York, Macmillan, 1916, also available in early Modern Library editions. Scanned by A. S. Man. Translation revised and notes added 1998 by James Rusk and A. S. Man. Some obsolete spelling and idioms have been changed.
The general theory of relativity, together with the necessary parts of the theory of invariants, is dealt with in the author’s book Die Grundlagen der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie (The Foundations of the General Theory of Relativity) — Joh. Ambr. Barth, 1916; this book assumes some familiarity with the special theory of relativity. v.
The wine sparkled in his eyes and the bells jingled. My own fancy grew warm with the Medoc. We had passed through walls of piled bones, with casks and puncheons intermingling, into the inmost recesses of the catacombs. I paused again, and this time I made bold to seize Fortunato by an arm above the elbow.
Goes to the coffee-pot, nervouslyPuts on white glovesToseverely. Rapid exit. Fussing round the coffee-potMurmurs to himselfLaughs. JoyfullyWeeps with joy. Enterandthe latter in a long jacket of thin cloth and loose trousers. coming in, moves his arms and body about as if he is playing billiards. Kisses her.