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The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays
by Roswell ParkThe Evil Eye Thanatology and Other Essays is a collection of medical essays & paper written by American physician Roswell Park. founder of Gratwick Research Laboratory during 18th century.Responsibility for the following collection of essays and addresses (occasional papers) rests perhaps not more with their writer, who was not unwilling ..
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
by Thomas Nathaniel OrchardMany able and cultured writers have delighted to expatiate on the beauties of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost,’ and to linger with admiration over the lofty utterances expressed in his poem. Though conscious of his inability to do justice to the sublimest of poets and the noblest of sciences, the author has ventured to contribute to Miltonic literature a w..
Watchers of the Sky
by Alfred NoyesThis volume, while it is complete in itself, is also the first of a trilogy, the scope of which is suggested in the prologue. The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity—a unity of purpose and endeavour—the single torch passing from hand to hand through the centuries; and the great moments of science when, after long labour, the pionee..
The Serpent's Tooth
by B. M. CrokerThe Serpent's Tooth is a married women fiction story written by B. M. (Bithia Mary) Croker. Dorothy Fenchurch was a notable example of the strong-willed active woman, mated to a weak, easy-going, good-tempered man: and the match had proved a conspicuous success. In the opinion of Tom Fenchurch, no wife in the County was fit to hold a can..
The True Grecian Bend - A Story in Verse
by Larry LeighThe True Grecian Bend: A Story in Verse by Larry Leigh.A woman in France got the spinal disease,And from that sad moment she had no more ease;To add to her anguish, she very soon found,Oh, horrors! her back was becoming quite round. The spasms of physical pain she endured,Were keen, I assure you, and could not be cured;But bad as these we..
Fombombo
by T. S. StriblingFombombo is a Venezuela fiction written by Thomas Sigismund Stribling. In Caracas, Thomas Strawbridge called at the American Consulate, from a sense of duty. The consul, a weary, tropic-shot politician from Kentucky, received him with gin, cigars, and a jaded enthusiasm. He glanced at Mr. Strawbridge's business card and inquired if his visitor..
Paula Monti
by Eugène SueIn 1837 the Opera-ball in Paris was not as yet entirely invaded by that mob of wild and crazed dancers, chicards and chicandards (as they style themselves), who, in the present day, have almost entirely driven from these assemblies the old traditions for mystification, and that tone of good society which did not detract from the piquancy of adventu..
The Chronicles of Aunt Minervy Ann
by Joel Chandler HarrisThe happiest, the most vivid, and certainly the most critical period of a man’s life is combined in the years that stretch between sixteen and twenty-two. His responsibilities do not sit heavily on him, he has hardly begun to realize them, and yet he has begun to see and feel, to observe and absorb; he is for once and for the last time an intereste..