In the Wrong Paradise: And Other StoriesK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1886 - 316 pagini Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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... began to revive beneath the rays of the sun . The sea , though still moved by a swell , was now much smoother , and , but for a strange vision , I might have believed that I was recovering my strength . I must , how- ever , have been ...
... began to revive beneath the rays of the sun . The sea , though still moved by a swell , was now much smoother , and , but for a strange vision , I might have believed that I was recovering my strength . I must , how- ever , have been ...
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... began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England . Before I had uttered half a dozen words , the men who were dragging the sheep flew at me , and tried to seize me , while one of them offered a strange ...
... began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England . Before I had uttered half a dozen words , the men who were dragging the sheep flew at me , and tried to seize me , while one of them offered a strange ...
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... began to knock together , and his old hands trembled so that he could scarcely fix the spectacles on his nose . When he had managed this it was plain that he found much less difficulty with his documents . He now turned them rapidly ...
... began to knock together , and his old hands trembled so that he could scarcely fix the spectacles on his nose . When he had managed this it was plain that he found much less difficulty with his documents . He now turned them rapidly ...
Pagina 26
... full of people , and , just before we reached the deep verandah , a roofed space open to the air in front , they began to come out , some of them singing . They had flowers 26 THE END OF PHÆACIA . IV At the Chief's House.
... full of people , and , just before we reached the deep verandah , a roofed space open to the air in front , they began to come out , some of them singing . They had flowers 26 THE END OF PHÆACIA . IV At the Chief's House.
Pagina 53
... began to re- turn to their homes , and Bludger , crowned with flowers that became him but ill , was car- ried off , not , as it seemed to me , without even a reverential demeanour on the part of his escort . Those who surrounded me , a ...
... began to re- turn to their homes , and Bludger , crowned with flowers that became him but ill , was car- ried off , not , as it seemed to me , without even a reverential demeanour on the part of his escort . Those who surrounded me , a ...
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Pagina 12 - HAECKEL (Prof. Ernst}— THE HISTORY OF CREATION. Translation revised by Professor E. RAY LANKESTER, MA, FRS With Coloured Plates and Genealogical Trees of the various groups of both plants and animals. 2 vols. Second Edition. Post 8vo. cloth, price 32*.
Pagina 279 - But, howsoever thou pursu'st this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once. The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire; Adieu, adieu, adieu, remember me.
Pagina 23 - Numbers. By the Rev. R. WINTERBOTHAM, LL.B. With Homilies by the Rev. Professor W. BINNIE, DD, Rev. ES PROUT, MA, Rev. D. YOUNG, Rev. J. WAITE, and an Introduction by the Rev. THOMAS WHITELAW, MA Fourth Edition. 15*. Deuteronomy. By the Rev. WL ALEXANDER, DD With Homilies by Rev.
Pagina 18 - MARKHAM, Capt. Albert Hastings, RN— The Great Frozen Sea : A Personal Narrative of the Voyage of the Alert during the Arctic Expedition of 1875-6.
Pagina 18 - Woman. Dedicated, by permission, to Lady Agnes Wood. Revised by the Venerable Archdeacon DENISON. 32mo, limp cloth, is. 6d. MILLER, Edward. — The History and Doctrines of Irvingism ; or, The so-called Catholic and Apostolic Church. 2 vols. Large post 8vo, 25^.
Pagina 32 - By MC Cooke, MD, LL.D. Edited by the Rev. MJ Berkeley, MA, FLS With numerous Illustrations.
Pagina 33 - XVIII. The Nature of Light: With a General Account of Physical Optics.
Pagina 25 - ROBERTSON, The late Rev. FW, MA—Life and Letters of. Edited by the Rev. STOPFORD BROOKE, MA I. Two vols., uniform with the Sermons. With Steel Portrait. Crown 8vo, Js.
Pagina 44 - Mrs. GS— Waking and Working; or, From Girlhood to Womanhood. New and Cheaper Edition. With a Frontispiece. Crown Svo, 3*.
Pagina 19 - NEWMAN, JH, DD— Characteristics from the Writings of. Being Selections from his various Works. Arranged with the Author's personal Approval.