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Betrachtungen über die Grundlagen der Philosophie René Des-Cartes (Seigneur du Perron) [Fußnote] erblickte das Licht der Welt am 31. März [Fußnote] 1596 zu La Haye (Touraine), wohin seine Mutter sich vor der Pest geflüchtet hatte. Sein Vater war Rat beim Parlament der Bretagne zu Rennes...

Une Fille du Regent by Alexandre Dumas. Philippe d'Orléans, régent de France, a bien du fil à retordre avec ses deux filles, trop libertines et son fils, trop sage. Mais voici qu'il veut s'occuper d'une autre fille, illégitime et cachée celle-là, Hélène de Chaverny. Il se décide à la faire...

The people who lived long ago, in the far-off lands of the north, watched the wonderful things that happened out of doors every day, just as we do; but they did not know about the one loving God, who is the Father of all, who made them and the world, and rules it by his wise laws; so they thought...

A Scientist Rises by Desmond Winter Hall

Mr. Chipfellows Jackpot by Dick Purcell

EVERYBODY knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world is — or, alas, was — the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss. Yet as it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat out-of-the-way situation, there are perhaps very few of my readers who have ever paid...

The Rise of Iskander is the seventh novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of Great Britain. Benjamin Disraeli, in full Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield, Viscount Hughenden of Hughenden, byname Dizzy, (born December 21, 1804, London, England—died April 19,...

The Political History of the Devil is a 1726 book by Daniel Defoe. General scholarly opinion is that Defoe really did think of the Devil as a participant in world history. He spends some time discussing John Milton's Paradise Lost and explaining why he considers it inaccurate. While those are all...

Over 350 ingenious problems involve classical logic: logic is expressed in terms of symbols; syllogisms and the sorites are diagrammed; logic becomes a game played with 2 diagrams and a set of counters. Lewis Carroll, pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, (born January 27, 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire,...

Coming Home 1916 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones, (born January...

Sophocles' Ajax, or Aias, is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BCE. Ajax may be the earliest of Sophocles' seven tragedies to have survived, though it is probable that he had been composing plays for a quarter of a century already when it was first staged. Sophocles was the younger contemporary...

As Odin looked down from his home in Asgard and saw the people he had made from the ash and the elm trees, he sighed to himself and said, “These are my children. It is I who created them. They are innocent and pure and sweet.” “But, alas, how little they know of life. By and by there will come...

Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Sophocles was the younger contemporary of Aeschylus and the...

The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith, (born Nov. 10, 1730, Kilkenny West, County Westmeath, Ire.—died April 4, 1774, London), Anglo-Irish essayist, poet, novelist, dramatist, and eccentric, made famous by such works as the series of essays The Citizen of the World, or,...