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These speeches will address themselves to the minds and hearts of those who read them, but not with the effect they had with those who heard them; Clemens himself would have said, not with half the effect. I have noted elsewhere how he always held that the actor doubled...
I do not know which of us got into the carriage first. IndeedI did not know he was in the carriage at all for some time. It was the last train from London to a Midland town-a stopping train, an infinitely leisurely train, one of those trains which give you an...
What does laughter mean?What is the basal element in the laughable?What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry-andrew, a play upon words, an equivocal situation in a burlesque and a scene of high comedy?What method of distillation will yield us...
Der biographische Roman von Ursula Dorn "Ich war ein Wolfskind aus Königsberg" beschreibt die Erlebnisse des Kindes in Königsberg, dem heutigen Kaliningrad (Russland), während der Endphase des Zweiten Weltkrieges und die Hungersnot der Nachkriegeszeit.
I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.I had been three months in the Old Country, and was fed up with it. If anyone had told me a year ago thatI would have been feeling like thatI should have laughed at him;...
The writings of Shakespeare have been justly termed "the richest, the purest, the fairest, that genius uninspired ever penned." Shakespeare instructed by delighting. His plays alone (leaving mere science out of the question), contain more actual wisdom than the whole...
During the past year, in the intervals of an active life, I have amused myself with constructing this tale. It has been scribbled in every kind of odd place and moment-in England and abroad, during long journeys, in half-hours between graver tasks; and it bears, I fear,...
"You must give me a moment," said the old man, leaning back. Percy resettled himself in his chair and waited, chin on hand. It was a very silent room in which the three men sat, furnished with the extreme common sense of the period. It had neither window nor door; for...
C. Suetonius Tranquillus was the son of a Roman knight who commanded a legion, on the side of Otho, at the battle which decided the fate of the empire in favour of Vitellius. From incidental notices in the following History, we learn that he was born towards the close...
I spent one-third of my journey looking out of the window of a first-class carriage, the next in a local motor-car following the course of a trout stream in a shallow valley, and the last tramping over a ridge of downland through great beech-woods to my quarters for the...
This book is written for esports teams, organizations and sports clubs working with esports. It exists to provide a wide range of ideas and suggestions of potential revenue streams so you can develop and run profitable esports teams and organizations. You will get a...
What is time? Has a tree got feelings? What would it be like to be immortal? What is especially beautiful in this world? Are adults or children happier? And what is happiness, actually? You will find 123 questions in this book, together with inspiring black-and-white...
The author deals with a number of concepts that occur within the special theory of relativity. - Derivation of Lorentz transformations - Time dilation - Michelson-Morley experiment, 1887 - Twin Paradox,The twin paradox -The third brother - Apparatus for measuring of the...
In October last (1902), my friend 'Carruthers' visited me in my chambers, and, under a provisional pledge of secrecy, told me frankly the whole of the adventure described in these pages. Till then I had only known as much as the rest of his friends, namely, that he had...
Moral education is everywhere acknowledged to be the most important part of all education; but there has not been the same agreement in regard to the best means of securing it in the school. This has been due in part to a want of insight into the twofold nature of this...
Songs From A Tender Gay Heart is a collection of over fourty different poems that I wrote, most of them were initially intended to become lyrics to songs. Most belong in the genre of fantasy but all of them are deeply personal to me and talk about my innermost dreams...
This book describes a worldwide optimal state system in a simple way.
There are towns over which time seems to exercise but little power, but to have passed them by forgotten, in his swift course. Everywhere else, at his touch, all is changed. Great cities rise upon the site of fishing villages; huge factories, with their smoky chimneys...
Thomas Lehr grew up at the end of the 1950s as the youngest of four children in the school of a small West German village. His parents and the church also taught him strict Catholic upbringing with physical punishment. At first he lived in the world of the Ten...
The Joint Commitment Account: Critical Essays on the Philosophy of Sociality of Margaret Gilbert with Her Comments
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