Books with author Thomas Mayne Reid

The stag of Texas, reclining in midnight lair, is startled from his slumbers by the hoofstroke of a horse. He does not forsake his covert, nor yet rise to his feet. His domain is shared by the wild steeds of the savannah, given to nocturnal straying. He only uprears his head; and, with antlers o’ertopping the tall grass, listens for a repetition of the sound. Again is the hoofstroke heard, but with altered intonation. There is a ring of metal—the clinking of steel against stone. The sound, significant to the ear of the stag, causes a quick change in his air and attitude. Springing clear of his couch, and bounding a score of yards across the prairie, he pauses to look back upon the disturber of his dreams. In the clear moonlight of a southern sky, he recognises the most ruthless of his enemies—man. One is approaching upon horseback. Yielding to instinctive dread, he is about to resume his flight: when something in the appearance of the horseman—some unnatural seeming—holds him transfixed to the spot. With haunches in quivering contact with the sward, and frontlet faced to the rear, he continues to gaze—his large brown eyes straining upon the intruder in a mingled expression of fear and bewilderment. What has challenged the stag to such protracted scrutiny? The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing amiss—nothing to produce either wonder or alarm. But the man—the rider? Ah! About him there is something to cause both—something weird—something wanting! By heavens! it is the head!

Quenthel Baenre is second only to the matron mother and is Menzoberranzan’s most powerful priestess of Lolth. When the Spider Queen goes silent, Quenthel is called upon to lead a team of dark elves on a mission that could save Menzoberranzan or doom it forever. With the cunning wizard Pharaun Mizzrym, weapons master Ryld Argith, mercenary Valas Hune, and the vicious draegloth Jeggred by her side, the priestess is sent to the trade city of Ched Nasad to determine the scope of Lolth’s silence.Is Menzoberranzan alone being punished? Are all the drow? Is it just Lolth, or have all the gods gone quiet?The answers to these questions will determine the fate of the entire drow race and set the course for the future of the Underdark. If the powerful dark elves falter, the world below is open for InsurrectionThe War of the Spider Queen spreads.

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. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAP. VII. CONCLUSION. Containing RefleElions upon the opinions of Philosophers on this suhjedl. THERE are two ways in which men may form their notions and opinions con* cerning the mind, and concerning its powers and operations. The sirst is the only way that leads to truth; hut it is narrow and rugged, and few have entered upon it. The second is broad and smooth, and hath been much beaten, not only by the vulgar, but even by philosophers: it is sufficient for common life, and is well adapted to the purposes of the poet and orator: but, in philosophical disquisitions concerning the mind, it leads to error and delusion. We We may call the sirst of these ways, the way of refletlion. When the operations of the mind are exerted, we are conscious of them; and it is in our power to attend to them, and to reflect upon them, until they become familiar objects of thought. This is the only way in which we can form just and accurate notions of those operations. But this attention and reflection is so difficult to man, surrounded on all hands by external objects, which constantly solicit his attention, that it has been very little practised, even by philosophers. In the course of this Inquiry, we have had many occasions to show, how little attention hath been given to the most familiar operations of the fenses. The second, and the most common way, in which men form their opinions concerning the mind and its operations, we may call the way of analogy. There is nothing in the course of nature so singular, but we can sind some resemblance, or at least some analogy, between it and other things with which we are acquainted. The mind naturally delights in hunting after such analogies, and attends to them with pleasure. From them, poetry and wit derive a...

The last in the trilogy of Forgotten Realms novels from Thomas M. Reid. This is the concluding novel in a trilogy exploring the political intrigue of a mercenary society in the Forgotten Realms world. Author Thomas M. Reid has written the entire trilogy, which takes place in an area of the world little before explored in novels. AUTHOR BIO: THOMAS M. REID held numerous positions with TSR and Wizards of the Coast, Inc., including brand manager for the D&D® brand and creative director for Star Wars® RPGs. Besides the Scions of Arrabar trilogy, his most recent novel is Insurrection, the second book in the New York Times best-selling R.A. Salvatore’s War of the Spider Queen series.

The War of the Spider Queen spreads...A hand-picked team of the most capable drow adventurers begin a perilous journey through the treacherous Underdark, all the while surrounded by the chaos of war. Their path will take them through the very heart of darkness, and the Underdark will be shaken to its core. If the powerful dark elves falter, the world below is open for Insurrection.

Ever wonder what could bring a demon to the gates of heaven? Aliisza and Kaanyr Vhok have returned from their attempted invasion of Menzoberranzan and turned their sights on Sundabar. But before she can complete a mission in that beseiged city, Aliisza finds herself in the one place a demon would never want to go, no matter how sure she is of her wits and cunning: the very heart of Celestia! Join everyone's favorite succubus and her half-fiend boyfriend, introduced in the War of the Spider Queen series, in the first installment of their own exciting new trilogy!

The last in the trilogy of Forgotten Realms novels from Thomas M. Reid. This is the concluding novel in a trilogy exploring the political intrigue of a mercenary society in the Forgotten Realms world. Author Thomas M. Reid has written the entire trilogy, which takes place in an area of the world little before explored in novels. AUTHOR BIO: THOMAS M. REID held numerous positions with TSR and Wizards of the Coast, Inc., including brand manager for the D&D® brand and creative director for Star Wars® RPGs. Besides the Scions of Arrabar trilogy, his most recent novel is Insurrection, the second book in the New York Times best-selling R.A. Salvatore’s War of the Spider Queen series.

The first in a new trilogy of Forgotten Realms novels from Thomas M. Reid.This is the first title in a new trilogy exploring the political intrigue of a mercenary society in the Forgotten Realms world. Author Thomas M. Reid will be authoring the entire trilogy, which takes place in an area of the world little before explored in novels.The Sapphire CrescentA mercenary order sworn to defend a god, but bent to the will of mortals.When family turns on family, it's buisness as usual in Arrabar, but when a family turns on itself, an entire nation may be torn asunder.

The philosopher Thomas Reid (1710 – 1796), the founder of the Scottish School of Common Sense and, was with his contemporary David Hume, played an integral role in the Scottish Enlightenment.Reid's classic treatise on phenomenology includes the following chapters:Chapter I. IntroductionI. The importance of the subject, and the means of prosecuting itII. The impediments to our knowledge of the mindIII. The present state of this part of philosophy—of Des Cartes, Nalebranche, and LockeIV. Apology for those philosophersV. Of Bishop Berkeley—the “Treatise of Human Nature”—and of scepticismVII. The system of all these authors is the same and leads to scepticismVIII. We ought not to despair of a betterChapter II. Of SmellingI. The order of proceeding.II. The sensation considered abstractlyIII. Sensation and its remembrance natural principles of beliefIV. Judgment and belief in some cases precede simple apprehensionV. Two theories of the nature of belief refuted. Conclusions from what hath been saidVI. Apology for metaphysical absurdities. Sensation without a sentient, a consequence of the theory of ideas. Consequences of this strange opinionVII. The conception and belief of a sentient being or mind, is suggested by our constitution. The notion of relations not always got by comparing the related ideasVIII. There is a quality or virtue in bodies, which we call their smell. How this is connected in the imagination with the sensationIX. That there is a principle in human nature, from which the notion of this, as well as all other natural virtues or causes, is derivedX. Whether in sensations the mind is active or passiveChapter III. Of TastingChapter IV. Of HearingI. Variety of sounds. Their place and distance learned by custom, without reasoningII. Of natural languageChapter V. Of TouchI. Of heat and coldII. Of hardness and softnessIII. Of natural signsIV. Of hardness, and other primary qualitiesVI. Of extensionVII. Of extensionVIII. Of the existence of a material worldIX. Of the systems of philosophers concerning the sensesChapter VI. Of SeeingI. The excellence and dignity of this facultyII. Sight discovers almost nothing which the blind may not comprehend. The reason of thisIII. Of the visible appearances of objectsIV. That colour is a quality of bodies, not a sensation of the mindV. First inference from the precedingVI. Second. That none of our sensations are resemblances of any of the qualities of bodiesVII. Of visible figure and extensionVIII. Some queries concerning visible figure answeredIX. Of the geometry of visiblesX. Of the parallel motion of the eyesXI. Of our seeing objects erect by inverted imagesXII. The same subject continuedXIII. Of seeing objects single with two eyesXIV. Of the laws of vision in brute animalsXV. The phenomena of squinting considered hypotheticallyXVI. Facts relating to squintingXVII. Of the effect of custom in seeing objects singleXVIII. Of Dr. Porterfield’s account of single and double visionXIX. Of Dr. Briggs's theory, and Sir Isaac Newton's conjecture on this subjectXX. Of perception in generalXXI. Of the process of nature in perceptionXXII. Of the signs by which we learn to perceive distance from, the eyeXXIII. Of the signs used in these acquired perceptionsChapter VII. Conclusion