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Since, time and again, it has been proved, in this country of free institutions, that the great majority of our fellow-countrymen consider the only Censorship that now obtains amongst us, namely the Censorship of Plays, a bulwark for the preservation of their comfort...
The Qur'an should be read and studied in its orginal arabic version.The Qur'an is the direct Word of Allah (God) to mankind through the prophet Muhammad. Any translation no longer retains that official and perfect status, nevertheless it can be helpful to beginning...
Hannele did not lift her head from her work. She sat in a low chair under a reading-lamp, a basket of coloured silk pieces beside her, and in her hands a doll, or mannikin, which she was dressing. She was doing something to the knee of the mannikin, so that the poor...
I do like a road, because you can be always wondering what is at the end of it.
They have been renovating my father's large workroom. That delightful, tumble-down old place has lost its moss-grown tiles and the green weather-stains we have known all our lives on the high whitewashed wall, opposite which we sit, in the little sculptor's yard, for...
New York wasNew Amsterdam when Dolph Heyliger got himself born there, a graceless scamp, though a brave, good-natured one, and being left penniless on his father's death he was fain to take service with a doctor, while his mother kept a shop. This doctor had bought a...
When the world was in its childhood, men looked upon the works of Nature with a strange kind of awe. They fancied that every thing upon the earth, in the air, or in the water, had a life like their own, and that every sight which they saw, and every sound which they...
Her Excellency, - will she have the politeness, said Daphne slowly, reading from a tiny Italian-English phrase-book, the politeness to - She stopped helpless. Old Giacomo gazed at her with questioning eyes. The girl turned the pages swiftly and chose another phrase.
The date is between twenty and thirty years ago.The place is an English sea-port.The time is night. And the business of the moment is - dancing....
The year was the year '92 - the year of leanness - the scene a spot between Sukhum and Otchenchiri, on the river Kodor, a spot so near to the sea that amid the joyous babble of a sparkling rivulet the ocean's deep-voiced thunder was plainly distinguishable.
Book I of this volume occupies a quarter or a third of the volume, and consists of matter written about four years ago, but not hitherto published in book form. It contained errors of judgment and of fact. I have now corrected these to the best of my ability and later...
My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing. My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them,...
In those dim recesses of the consciousness where things have their beginning, if ever things have a beginning, I suppose the origin of this novel may be traced to a fact of a fortnight's sojourn on the western shore of lake Champlain in the summer of 1891. Across the...
Leave Bologna a Happy Man The Captain Parts from Us in Reggio, where I Spend a Delightful Night with Henriette Our Arrival in Parma Henriette Resumes the Costume of a Woman; Our Mutual Felicity I Meet Some Relatives of Mine, but Do not Discover Myself
The old by-road went rambling down into a dell of deep green shadow. It was a reprobate of a road, a vagrant of the land, having long ago wandered out of straight and even courses and taken to meandering aimlessly into many ruts and furrows under arching trees, which...
It may be, my dear grandchildren, that at one time or another I have told you nearly all the incidents which have occurred during my adventurous life. To your father and to your mother, at least, I know that none of them are unfamiliar. Yet when I consider that time...
I'd like to be a water-lily sleeping on the river
by MAXIME DU CAMP, of the French Academy
The day had been very hot even for the Transvaal, where the days still know how to be hot in the autumn, although the neck of the summer is broken especially when the thunderstorms hold off for a week or two, as they do occasionally. Even the succulent blue lilies a...
A Misty evening in mid-October; a top room in one of the small dingy houses on the north side of Moon Street, its floor partially covered with pieces of drugget carpet trodden into rags; for furniture, an iron bed placed against the wall, a deal cupboard or wardrobe, a...
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