Download or read book Select Essays and Addresses Classic Reprint written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Select Essays and Addresses The Essays for this edition have been chosen with the utmost care. Directors of departments of English and experienced teachers ln prominent schools have kindly assisted the editor by submit ting lists of our author' s Essays which have proved most profitable to classes of students. There 1s not an essay m this edition which has not been approved by at least two teachers of English. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Selected Essays on Literary Subjects Classic Reprint written by George William Erskine Russell and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Essays on Literary Subjects I have heard, on what seems credible authority, that an eminent scholar, who, at the present moment, occupies the Chair of English Literature at one of our Universities, began a lecture on the same subject as that on which I have the honour of addressing you to-night with these memorable words: "Strictly speaking, Charles Dickens had no humour." cannot promise you any observations of so startling and arresting a kind as that; I shall confine myself to a much humbler, more ordinary, and more natural effort. You must pardon the egotism of a lively gratitude if the word "I" occurs oftener in the course of my speech than I could wish, for I can truly say that Charles Dickens has been to me, though I never knew him, nor even saw him, one of the very best friends that life has afforded, and best in the darkest hours. In that respect, I can only bracket him with Sir Walter Scott, there being this difference between the two cases, that Scott was to all of us an historical character, whereas some of us lived contemporaneously with part of Charles Dickens' life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Selected Essays and Addresses by Sir James Paget Classic Reprint written by James Paget and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Essays and Addresses by Sir James Paget The lectures, essays, and addresses by Sir james paget contained in this volume are collected and republished not as illustrations of his life, or as a book for general reading, ' but for the special use of the medical profession. Of his lectures, those have been chosen that are most closely associated with his clinical studies, and with his later work in surgical pathology and to them are added some essays and addresses that will be welcome to men who knew him. None of his earlier lectures on pathology are included: there is, indeed, nothing more here than such a selection of Sir james paget's writings as any. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Uncollected Writings written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Uncollected Writings: Essays, Addresses, Poems, Reviews and Letters Included in this volume are six poems that have not been reprinted since their first appearance in the early annuals Where they were first published. A number of Emerson's letters conclude this volume, two of them being of special importance. One is the Letter to the Second Church and Society, March. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Essays and Addresses Classic Reprint written by Richard Claverhouse Jebb and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays and Addresses That I am allowed to republish Humanism in Education is due to the kind offices of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford, who obtained this permission for me from the Trustees of the Romanes Fund. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Select Essays and Poems written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NOTES. The one thing attempted in the editorial portions of this little book is to make these parts of service to the pupils who will read it. It has, therefore, seemed better to suggest a search, perhaps even too close, for the poet's literal meaning, rather than to risk leaving an impression of something beautiful, but vague. For facts concerning Emerson's life and for quotations from his journal, the editor is under obligations ? as every student of Emerson must be ? to E. W. Emerson's Emerson in Concord, J. E. Cabot's Memoir of Emerson, and O. W. Holmes's Ralph Waldo Emerson. COMPENSATION.' 11. A by-word and a hissing: Emerson was once hissed at a political meeting in Cambridgeport. A friend who was present said one could think of nothing but dogs baying at the moon. He was serene as moonlight itself. 12. Res . . . administrari: translated in the preceding sentence. Primeval despots of Egypt: the Hyksos, or shepherd kings. The journey of Abraham to Egypt (Genesis xii. 10) is assigned to the early part of their reign, and that of Joseph (Genesis xxxvii. 28) to the closing period of their power. 15. It is in the world, etc.: cf. John i. 10. Ol . . . cvirhrrovtri: translated in the following sentence. 17. The ingenuity of man, etc.: cf. the address to the backstairs in Kingsley's Water-Babies, Chapter VIII. 19. Drive out nature with a fork: this saying is at least two thousand years old. See Horace's Epistolce, I. 10. 24, Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurfet. The irreverent modern American illustration of the thought is the story of Mrs. Partington's trying to sweep back the Atlantic with her broom. 20. How secret art thou. etc.: Confessions of St. Augustine (fourth century), Book I. 18. 21. Prometheus: the secret was how to avert the...
Download or read book Selected Essays Classic Reprint written by Claude Moore Fuess and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Essays The Familiar Essayists, usually people Of schol arly tastes and seasoned wisdom, have been fond of allusion and illustration. They have loved to point an argument with an anecdote, and to press home a doctrine with a simile. But the knowledge displayed is never obtrusive or pedantic, for the Essay must always seem the brief and light result Of learning and meditation. It is beyond the essayist's prov ince to usurp the preacher's office or to play the part of tutor. He is quite content with a hint instead of a sermon, with a jest in place of a solemn maxim. He is well aware also that the slightest trace of conventionality or affectation or even of reticence will destroy the impression he wishes to produce. This means, of course, that he is to be on intimate and natural terms with his audience. Assuming the confidential tone of unreserved conversation, the skillful essayist behaves to his readers as if he were betraying to them momentous secrets. Mon taigne, Lamb, Stevenson seem almost to be chatting at our very elbows, so frankly and innocently do they disclose their partialities and foibles, their little whims and weaknesses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book New Selected Essays written by Tennessee Williams and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There isn't a dull or conventional page, or an unlovely sentence in the book."--Scott Eyman, The Palm Beach Post
Download or read book Select Essays and Addresses Including the American Scholar written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... ESSAYS GIFTS Gifts of one who loved me -- 'Twas high time they came; When he ceased to love me, Time they stopped for shame. 1. It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay, and ought to go into chancery,0 and be sold. I do not think this general insolvency, which involves in some sort all the population, to be the reason of the difficulty experienced 5 at Christmas and New Year, and other times, in bestowing gifts; since it is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. But the impediment lies in the choosing. If, at any time, it comes into my head that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what 10 to give, until the opportunity is gone. Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern countenance of ordinary nature: they are like music 15 heard out of a work-house. Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws. Yet these delicate flowers look like the frolic and interference of love and beauty. Men use to tU us that 20 i we love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. Something like that pleasure, the flowers give us: what am I to whom these sweet hints are addressed? 6 Fruits are acceptable gifts, because they are the flower of commodities, and admit of fantastic values being attached to them. If a man should send to me to come a hundred miles to visit him, and should set before me a basket of fine...
Download or read book The Source of Self Regard written by Toni Morrison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR). These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin. She looks deeply into the fault lines of culture and freedom: the foreigner, female empowerment, the press, money, “black matter(s),” human rights, the artist in society, the Afro-American presence in American literature. And she turns her incisive critical eye to her own work (The Bluest Eye, Sula, Tar Baby, Jazz, Beloved, Paradise) and that of others. An essential collection from an essential writer, The Source of Self-Regard shines with the literary elegance, intellectual prowess, spiritual depth, and moral compass that have made Toni Morrison our most cherished and enduring voice.
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Download or read book Faith and Experience written by Oswald John Simon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Faith and Experience: A Selection of Essays and Addresses Men and women are capable of acquiring know ledge and of gathering experience in regard to the relation between what is Divine and what is human. There is, however, a common impression that in this world we can only learn about our humanity; there is not much, it is said, that we can attain in the knowledge of the Divine nature. This is the supposition among people of a certain order of mind. There are others who believe that there is a definite revelation of the Divine nature in the Scriptures, but that this revelation is to be found nowhere else. Such a View may be said to represent particular types of religionists - not uncommon - among Jews and Christians. The ordinary phrase, to believe in God, does not convey all that is meant by a revelation of the Divine nature. What is human, what is Divine, are questions which can be answered in the pages of the Bible, but also in the record of general human experience. There is not, indeed, any B. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Selected Essays and Miscellaneous Writings Classic Reprint written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Essays and Miscellaneous Writings Mr. Sumner, who was commanded by his Majesty to edit and translate the treatise, has acquitted himself Of his task in a manner honourable to his talents and to his character. His version is not, indeed, very easy or elegant but it is entitled to the praise of clearness and fidelity. His notes abound with interesting quotations, and have the rare merit Of really elucidating the text. The preface is evidently the work Of a sensible and candid man, firm in his own religious Opinions, and tolerant towards those Of others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Oriental Experience written by Richard Temple and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oriental Experience: A Selection of Essays and Addresses Delivered in Various Occasions In the various parts of the book there will be found much diversity of style and composition, because some are reports of speeches, while others are written essays. Though the speeches have been carefully revised, no attempt has been made to modify the form they naturally have as oral deliverances. Three chapters, being addresses on geographical characteristics, are abundantly illustrated. Besides the illustrations, there is prefixed to each of these chapters a Special map, copied from that which was prepared by the Royal Geographical Society for the addresses. Further, to the chapter on Chinese history a map is appended for particular reference concerning the events described. At the beginning of the book, too, there will be found a map displaying the progress of geography, and the physical configuration, of Asia generally. This has been com piled from two large diagrams that were prepared for the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in order to illus trate the addresses included in the volume. If my topics shall seem many-sided and multifarious for a single author, it is to be remembered that these works represent the outcome of a thirty years' preparation, and embody the result of an almost life - long labour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Selected Essays Vol 2 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Abraham Hayward and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selected Essays, Vol. 2 of 2 The compilers of A Book of Parliamentary Aneo dote have manifested no extraordinary amount of discrimination or research. Their materials are drawn from familiar and easily accessible sources: their ar rangement is open to grave objection: yet their main object, as explained in their Preface, has been attained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Specially Selected written by E. V. Lucas and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Specially Selected: A Choice of Essays This lady was small, but Of the superb gallantry of her kind, swift, impulsive, ever gay and ever loving. She was not more than three years old when she died thus paradoxically through the stafi Of life, but already, thanks to the wise and thoughtful decrees Of Nature, she had stamped her image upon as adorable a family Of little beautiful uglies as you ever saw, one Of whom, the image Of her mother, is at the moment wonder ing when I shall return to the armchair in order to make again a lap. 50 that, though it is hard that dogs should so quickly pass through the lighted hall between darkness and darkness, yet there is ever another left: not, Of course, the same, for nothing is the same, but like enough in devout ways and trustworthiness Of habits to console us. And now and again, Of course, it may chance that the new dog is the better. As for Shadow, my black spaniel now under sentence, he has never been anything but blunderingly devoted. As a dog he is not clever. TO be pursued by him means. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Live from Golgotha written by Gore Vidal and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1993-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy (later St. Timothy) is in his study in Thessalonika, where he is bishop of Macedonia. It is A.D. 96, and Timothy is under terrific pressure to record his version of the Sacred Story, since, far in the future, a cyberpunk (the Hacker) has been systematically destroying the tapes that describe the Good News, and Timothy's Gospel is the only one immune to the Hacker's deadly virus. Meanwhile, thanks to a breakthrough in computer software, an NBC crew is racing into the past to capture—live from the suburb of Golgotha—the Crucifixion, for a TV special guaranteed to boost the network's ratings in the fall sweeps. As a stream of visitors from twentieth-century America channel in to the first-century Holy Land—Mary Baker Eddy, Shirley MacLaine, Oral Roberts and family—Timothy struggles to complete his story. But is Timothy's text really Hacker-proof? And how will he deal with the truth about Jesus' eating disorder? Above all, will he get the anchor slot for the Big Show at Golgotha without representation by a major agency, like CAA 1,896 years in the future? Tune in.
