Library Of Alexandria: 8804 books
by William Smythe Babcock Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
I HAVE here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compass of a single small volume, and to treat the luxuriant and many-sided later development with the particularity proportionate to its importance, and the greater interest appertaining to...
by Willis Fletcher Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
After dinner a few of the bolder spirits among the men take counsel of a guide, who leads them to the Moorish coffee-house by the great Mosque. There they listen to the music of ghaitah and gimbri, pay a peseta for a cup of indifferent coffee, and buy an unmusical instrument or two for many times the...
by W. H. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Office of United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Washington, D. C., November 1, 1877. The collection of photographic portraits of North American Indians described in the following "Catalogue" is undoubtedly the largest and most valuable one extant. It has been made at great...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
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,...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
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,...
by Thomas Carlyle
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. 1712. PROEM: FRIEDRICH'S HISTORY FROM THE DISTANCE WE ARE AT. About fourscore years ago, there used to be seen sauntering on the terraces of Sans Souci, for a short time in the afternoon, or you might have met him elsewhere at an earlier hour, riding or driving in a rapid business...
by Hermann Schoenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Adequately to write the history of the woman of any race would mean the writing of the history of the nation itself. There is no phase of the cultural life of any people that is not founded upon the physical and moral nature of its women. On the other hand, mental and moral heredity, both through paternity...
by Noel Coward
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
I HAVE endeavoured in writing and compiling this book, to emphasize not only actual deeds and historical facts, but to aspire to an even higher goal—to conjure to life for a few brief moments the "Souls" of my subjects, stark in all their deathless beauty. What task could be nobler than to delve in...
by George Rawlinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
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...
by William B. Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
THAT the Voice of the North calls insistently to him who once has dwelt amidst its snows is neither myth nor legend. It is history. Like the Song of the Lorelei, having heard it once it rings in his ears forever. True, it is a strenuous game which Man plays against Nature in Alaska. There, as nowhere...
by John T. Faris
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
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,...
by Henry M. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for quaint and curious reminiscences of "Ye Olden Time," and to meet this, Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handBooks. The materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, sources not easily...
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
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,...
by George Bancroft
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
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,...