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Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 5Mme. Campan Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, Volume 5 / Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen BOOK 2 CHAPTER I The ever-memorable oath of the States General, taken...

English SocietyGeorge Du Maurier English Society GEORGE DU MAURIER I was thinking, with a pang, just before I put my pen to the paper, that the death of George du Maurier must be a fact of stale interest to the reader already, and that it would be staler yet by the time my words reached him. So s...

Some Principles of Maritime StrategyJulian Stafford Corbett Some Principles of Maritime Strategy INTRODUCTION The Theoretical Study of War—Its Use and Limitations At first sight nothing can appear more unpractical, less promising of useful result, than to approach the study of war with a theory. ...

Anna KareninaTolstoy Leo Anna Karenina PART ONE Chapter 1 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a gover...

An Essay on the Principle of PopulationT. R. Malthus An Essay on the Principle of Population Preface The following Essay owes its origin to a conversation with a friend, on the subject of Mr Godwin's essay on avarice and profusion, in his Enquirer. The discussion started the general question of t...

The "Goldfish"Arthur Cheney Train The «Goldfish» / Being the Confessions af a Successful Man "We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. We have lost the power of even imagining what the ancient idealization of...

Rewards and FairiesKipling Rudyard Rewards and Fairies A CHARM Take of English earth as muchAs either hand may rightly clutch.In the taking of it breathePrayer for all who lie beneath —Not the great nor well bespoke,But the mere uncounted folkOf whose life and death is noneReport or lamentation.L...

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV MILL'S LOGIC. 1 These are not degenerate days. We have still strong thinkers amongst us; men of untiring perseverance, who flinch before no difficulties, who...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 10, No. 264, July 14, 1827 ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATIONS NEW CHURCH, REGENT'S PARK The architectural splendour which has lately developed itse...

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859Various The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 / A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics E. FELICE FORESTI Late in the autumn of 1836, an Austrian brig-of-war cast anchor in the harbor of New York; and seldom have voyager...