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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

The Reader will please to observe, that the following pages are printed solely with a view of refuting the calumnious charge of incapability and inferiority made against the Negro race, and not for the purpose of vindicating the American Colonization Scheme, concerning which great diversity of opinion...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

En el jardín de la Capilla Expiatoria Debían encontrarse á las cinco de la tarde en el pequeño jardín de la Capilla Expiatoria, pero Julio Desnoyers llegó media hora antes, con la impaciencia del enamorado que cree adelantar el momento de la cita presentándose con anticipación. Al pasar la verja...

II Era un delicado obsequio con el cual quería nuestro buen Thiers pagar diferentes deudas de gratitud a su insigne amigo D. Manuel María José del Pez. Este próvido sujeto administrativo había dado a la familia Bringas en Marzo de aquel año (1868) nuevas pruebas de su generosidad. Sin aguardar...

Introducción por Gonzalo de Quesada Sea su novela el décimo volumen de las obras del Maestro. Es milagro que ella, como casi todo lo que escribió, no se haya perdido. Se publicó en 1885, en varias entregas, en El Latino Americano, periódico bimensual, de vida efímera—órgano de la Compañía...

A los niños que lean «La Edad de Oro». Para los niños es este periódico, y para las niñas, por supuesto. Sin las niñas no se puede vivir, como no puede vivir la tierra sin luz. El niño ha de trabajar, de andar, de estudiar, de ser fuerte, de ser hermoso: el niño puede hacerse hermoso aunque...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

In the life of every person, who receives a higher education, in or out of schools, there is a time when there seems to be opposition between science and religion; between man-made and God-made knowledge. The struggle for reconciliation between the contending forces is not an easy one. It cuts deep into...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts,...

A cold sweet, silvery life, wrapped in round waves. — Leigh Hunt. Help me, Cassius, or I sink

This 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...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred...

MEN OF MIND In the companion volume of this series, "Men of Action," the attempt was made to give the essential facts of American history by sketching in broad outline the men who made that history—the discoverers, pioneers, presidents, statesmen, soldiers, and sailors—and describing the part which...