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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 3; Original Publisher: London, Richard Bentley and Son; Publication date: 1884; Subjects: Psychological fiction; Pageants - Production and direction; Pageants; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Psychological;

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 4 (1831); Original Publisher: New York : G. and C. and H. Carvill; Publication date: 1831; Subjects: Zoology; Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / General;

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: [Peoria, Ill., J. W. Franks; Publication date: 1892; Subjects: Reptiles;

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 1; Original Publisher: London : Chatto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1907 Excerpt: ... Cbapter ffIP Gooo Cbeer--©ooo TICltll Success, despite the tempestuous history of the first six months of their existence, was staring the Morning Glories in the face. The club had come to stay, and a prosperous and useful future was assured. Prosperity meant that the treasury, among other things, had become more than a name, and the members of the club became possessed with a desire to spend the money that had been so laboriously earned, that was as burning as had been the desire to get it. "The gentlemen Morning Glories have just got to be entertained," Mrs. Stout had declared at a meeting held the week following Barbara's wedding. "It ain't so much that we want to give them a good time, we want to show the men-folks that we can do somethin' without makin' a mess of it, though I must own that some good has come out of the trouble we've made already." There was no opposition, in fact, the ladies were delighted with the idea. Accordingly, plans for a reception and dinner were quickly made and promptly executed. On the day appointed for the function, two weeks later, Mrs. Stout and Mrs. Blake stood in the gorgeously decorated Veterans' Hall, admiring the work of the committee, with the keenest satisfaction. "Ain't it just elegant?" said Mrs. Stout. "Beautiful," was Mrs. Blake's reply. "Won't the men-folks be surprised?" "They ought to be." "I expect that my Peter won't say a word the whole evenin' long--he ain't used to such things. He tried to beg off, but I put my foot down and said: 'No, sir; we've made plans to entertain you men-folks, and you've just got to be entertained whether you like it or not!'" "And what did he say to that?" asked Mrs. Blake, laughingly. "' Give another show,' says he, 'if you want to please the men.' Did you ever hear or kn...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873. Excerpt: ... and the radius at R by 1 + aF(z), where o is a small quantity. Then proceeding as in Art. 424, we find that the element of the required attraction, estimated from the pole, to the order we have to regard du dlr sin u cos ylr cos I u _.. = T. , i--Olfiz) 4 sin J u w _ du dyff r sin acos _.. Ssin« W This agrees with D'Alembert's formula at the top of his page 26; his A is our yfr. The transverse attraction which we require would be obtained by integrating the above expression between the limits 0 and 27r for yfr, and 0 and It for «. Let T denote this transverse attraction. Let V denote the attraction at Q resolved along the radius; and the angle between this radius and the tangent to QP at Q. Then V cos % is the resolved part of V along the tangent to QP at Q. Hence, supposing the body to be fluid, or at least the outer stratum to be fluid, we must have for equilibrium VcosX=T (1). If the body rotates, then to secure relative equibbrium, we must supply in this equation a term corresponding to the resolved centrifugal force. We must now give some specific form to F(z) before we can carry the investigation further. Assume, with D'Alembert, that F(z) =A + B cos z + C coss z + + M cos" 2. We shall then have to our order of approximation cos x =-sin £ (B + 2 C cos /9 + + mM cos"'"1 /S) a; 47T and it will be sufficient in (1) to put---for V-Thus (1) becomes o- sin £ (B + 2C cos /3 + mM cos""1) = T. (2). Here every term involves some odd power of sin /3. Now suppose we put (1--cos9 /3) sin /S for sin /3, and (1--cos /8) sin /S for sin6 /3, and so on. Then Z takes the form sin 0 cos"-1 /3 + iVs cosmH £ + 2V„ cos"-5£ +...), where Nlt Nt, Ns,... are functions of u and i/r. In like manner the other terms in F(z) will give rise to ...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1890 Excerpt: ... The generous.reception given-co my book on the Parables, has encqugei me to.issuo this companion volume on the Miraclcs_ of our Saviour, the rather, as there seemed to be room for a fresh treatment of these suggestive themes. The "Notes" of Trench, like everything which came frora their author's hand, are able, thorough, scholarly, and will always hold a very high plaoc an the estimation of students. But the. homiletic eleiaentin them is meagre, and in these days vrhen the question how to turn biblical subjects to the best account, in the pulpit, for the meeting of the necessities of our modern life, is attracting so much attention, there is a call for something more direct and practical than the archbishop has supplied. The recent volume of Professor Laidlaw, of Edinburgh, is evidence of that call and will do much to meet it; but before it was issued the manuscript of the following pages had passed out of my hands, and arrangements had been made for their publication. On such a subject, however, there is no competition, but only co-operation between brethren. My aim throughout has been expository and practical rather than apologetic. What appeared to be needful in the latter department I have put into the introductory chapter, but in the remainder of the book I have given more prominence to the parabolic teaching of the Miracles as "signs," than to their reality and evidential value as works of Divine power. Those who saw them performed might bo most impressed by the latter, but to us now the former has become their most interesting feature and we have come to regard them as forming themselves a part of the Revelation which at first they introduced and endorsed. We do not lully interpret them, unless.we take this part of their sig . nificance into accou...

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes company; Publication date: 1917; Subjects: Fiction - Authorship; Creative writing; Science fiction - Authorship; Fantasy literature - Authorship; Science fiction; Fantasy fiction; Fantasy literature; Fantasticliterature; Reference / Writing Skills; Language Arts

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1852 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XII. DECEMBEE. A Brief mention of Lichens, Funguses, and Seaweeds, will form the last part of this branch of Natural History. The reader must refer to works devoted to this portion of the subject, when more information is required. Lichenes. Lichens. The characters of the order are as follows:--Aerial plants (not deriving nourishment from the soil); leaves and stem combined, and spreading either horizontally in the form of a lobed irregular plate, or rising. erect, with irregular branches, having discs or shields which produce the seeds. Lichens are very valuable in preparing the ground for more important vegetables; they retain much moisture, and even on the bare rock, upon which they are often fixed, will enable a few seeds of grass and other small plants to grow. These wither, and in their turn afford nourishment to larger kinds, and thus a soil is formed by degrees on these otherwise barren spots. They themselves require no other sustenance than the moisture of the atmosphere; so that the root fixes them to the rock, but is of no further use. They grow almost everywhere, on stone and wood, as well as in the soil. Some few are eatable, as the Cladonia rangiferina, or Reindeer Moss, as it is erroneously called, which not only forms the food of the useful animal from which it derives its name, but is used in this country medicinally. It has white stems, looking like wire, and forming a mass, which is seen on heaths amongst the green Moss. Others are used by the dyer. Various species form the weather-stains on old walls, and many beautiful kinds grow on rocks and stones. One found on the latter substance, of a green and yellow colour, is the Opegrapha saxatilis, or Map Lichen, as it resembles the marks used in delineating geographical plans. These k...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1885 Excerpt: ... 113 CHAPTER XXVI. TWO ACTRESSES. The arrangements made between Mr. Samuel Erin, on behalf of his son William Henry, ' an infant,' with Mr. Albany Wallis, for the production of the play were eminently satisfactory. Mr. Erin was to receive three hundred pounds on the morning after the first night of representation, and half profits for the next sixty nights. Shakespeare himself had probably never made so good a bargain. The news of the acceptance of the 'Vortigern' by the management of Drury Lane Theatre immensely increased the public excitement concerning it. In those days 'Old Drury' (though indeed it was then far from old) was the national theatre; and the fact of a play being played. upon its boards (inde TOL. II. I penclently of Sheridan having chosen it) gave it a certain imprimatur. It was not unreasonable, therefore, in William Henry that he already saw himself half way to fortune, while his success in love might be said to be assured; there are but few of us in truth who, at his age, are in a position so enviable. For, as when we grow old, prosperity, if it does come, comes but too often too late for its enjoyment, so the sunshine of youth is marred by the uncertainty of its duration, and by the clouds that overhang its future. Of the reception of the 'Vortigern' the young fellow had but little doubt; he believed it would run a long and successful course, as most people do believe in the case of the hare of their own finding. And yet the manifestation of his joy was by no means extravagant. The gravity and coolness of his demeanour, which had characterised him throughout the discoveries, did not now desert him. At times, indeed, even when Margaret's arms were about his neck, he looked anxious and distrait; but when she rallied him about it he had alw...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847. Excerpt: ... seen, clad for the most part in purple, and bearing small torches, who accompanied with acclamations some rich man on horseback to the shrines and temples. Servants followed and scattered gold amongst the people, so that a constant scramble was kept up to the great amusement of all parties. Having performed the usual sacrifices to the Gods, they then went round to the magistrates, and bestowed New Year's gifts upon their servants. Put this was all done openly, the money passing through the hands of those in office to their subordinates, and the former kissing the person to whom he presented the intended gift. Others imitated this example; gold flowed about freely on all sides; and the revelry in consequence soon reached its height, for at a time like this there were few hoarders amongst any class. So ended the first day. On the second day the festival assumed another character. There was now no more exchanging of gifts, people for the most part remaining at home, while masters and servants played promiscuously at dice and cockal,t all ranks being levelled for the season;X and, what per In the Greek it is " dvlpa i-mroTpoQov," one who breeds horses, a curious phrase, as seeming to indicate that the breeding of horses was the occupation of men of rank and fortune. Keiske, who explains it by einen reichen und vornehmen Mann, says that Libanius alludes to the consul. t Cockal is a game in which four pastern bones of certain animals properly marked were thrown like dice; and hence among the Romans it had the name of Talus, which signifies the pastern-bone of a beast. How it ever came to be called cockal or huctel-bone by us is more than I can account for, these words alluding to a very different part of the animal anatomy. X This was imitated even by the cler...