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Some five-and-thirty years ago it was our custom to discuss many matters, among them, I think, the history and romance of the vanished Empires of Central America.
WHEN Thomas Paine sailed from America for France, in April, 1787, he was perhaps as happy a man as any in the world. His most intimate friend, Jefferson, was Minister at Paris, and his friend Lafayette was the idol of France. His fame had preceded him, and he at once...
Appendices Reflections of Three Former Commanders Appendix A. Thoughts on Rapid Dominance by Admiral Bud Edney Appendix B. Defense Alternatives: Forces Required by General Chuck Horner Appendix C. Enduring Realities and Rapid Dominance by Genera
One hundred years' and one ago, in Boston, at ten of the clock one April night, a church steeple had been climbed and a lantern hung out.
The permanence of the work on which I inscribe your name twice made illustrious in this century is very problematical; whereas you have graven mine in bronze which survives nations if only in their coins.The day may come when numismatists, discovering amid the...
Charles Dickens observes with much truth, that though seldom read, prefaces are continually written. It may be asked and even wondered, why? I cannot say that I know the exact reason, but it seems to me that they may carry the same weight, in the literary world, that...
I SAW a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing:
You may contradict me as flat as a flounder, Eunice, but that won't alter the facts. There is something in telepathy there is something in mind-reading
I feel little reluctance in complying with your request. You know not fully the cause of my sorrows. You are a stranger to the depth of my distresses. Hence your efforts at consolation must necessarily fail. Yet the tale thatI am going to tell is not intended as a...
Ford Village has no railroad station, being on the other side of the river from Porter's Falls, and accessible only by the ford which gives it its name, and a ferry line.
If we could only get used to the idea that ghosts are perfectly harmless creatures, who are powerless to affect our well-being unless we assist them by giving way to our fears, we should enjoy the supernatural exceedingly, it seems to me. Coleridge, I think it was, was...
Sir Grenville Rusholm, Baronet, was dead. The blinds were down at the Lodge, Queen's Square. For the last few days lengthy obituary notices had appeared in all the papers, innumerable wreaths and crosses had arrived at the house, and letters of sympathy and condolence...
The writer has published so much truth which the world has insisted was fiction, and so much fiction which has been received as truth, that, in the present instance, he is resolved to say nothing on the subject. Each of his readers is at liberty to believe just as much,...
Last winter I resolved to complete this book, and while giving it the form in which it now goes forth into the world, I was constantly reminded of the dear friend to whom I intended to dedicate it. Now I am permitted to offer it only to the manes of Gustav Baur; for a...
The United States of America! It was in the Declaration of Independence that this name was first and formally proclaimed to the world, and to maintain its verity the war of the Revolution was fought. Americans like to think that they were then assuming among the Powers...
Torpor, ebes sensus, scola parua labor minimusqu
Nihil Obstat: Thomas O'Donnell, C.M. Censor Theol. Deput
Outside the bedroom the night was black and still.
In the year 1877 the first edition of The Golden Dog (Le Chien d'Or) was brought out in the United States, entirely without my knowledge or sanction. Owing to the inadequacy of the then existing copyright laws, I have been powerless to prevent its continued...
The following work may with the strictest justice be said to have done honour to human nature as well as to the great abilities of the author.The wisest and most learned man, and those most distinguished by birth and the elevation of their stations, have, in every...
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