Samuel: 2879 books

Excerpt: "Philosophers have been a good deal puzzled for a definition of man; yet it would seem by no means difficult to point out characteristics which distinguish him from all other animated beings. He is not only the acknowledged lord and master of the animal kingdom, but he is the only being...

Excerpt: "In the western part of the State of Connecticut is a small town named Ridgefield. This title is descriptive, and indicates the general form and position of the place. It is, in fact, a collection of hills, rolled into one general and commanding elevation. On the west is a ridge of mountains,...

ZERAH COLBURN, BARATIERE, GASSENDI, PASCAL, GROTIUS, NEWTON, MAGLIABECCHI, CRICHTON, BERONICIUS, MASTER CLENCH, JEDEDIAH BUXTON, WILLIAM GIBSON, EDMUND STONE, RICHARD EVELYN, QUENTIN MATSYS, WEST, BERRETINI, HENRY KIRK WHITE, MOZART, ELIHU BURRITT, GEORGE MORLAND, WILLIAM PENN, JOHN SMITH, ETHAN ALLEN,...

This book is about everyday life experiences that people live with. It is about your everyday relationship with family and friends. It critics how people respond to situations and gives them a way to cope with things. It motivates you to incite actions and to use your talent to improve yourself. Some...

A classic collection of critical essays, poems, and letters from one of the greatest minds of nineteenth-century America.

"Every word has gone through endless exacting rehearsals to shine. These are poems not only to be read, but to be memorized." ~ John-Ivan Palmer, author of 'Motels of Burning Madness' "Captures sentiment and observance in cunning detail, wit, and elegance." ~ Marge Barrett, author...

I had desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose...

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     The Genoese—thrifty and industrious—bore no very good moral character at that time; but they were then perhaps not alone in that respect. Little information is available concerning the family of Paganini.

She told me that even though I was conceived before marriage, that she loved me nonetheless. I was told many great truths that have anchored me throughout my life as well as many more wonderful things that have manifested. Mama, the only name I'd ever call her, was a creative cook and a woman of great...

Appearing in book form for the first time, "The Atheist in the Attic" is a suspenseful and vivid historical narrative, recreating the top-secret meeting between the mathematical genius Leibniz and the philosopher Spinoza caught between the horrors of the cannibalistic Dutch Rampjaar and...

People have been fascinated by cats for centuries. From the ancient Egyptians, all the way down to today's cat lovers throughout the world, cats have held a special place in people's lives. Cats are unique creatures. It shouldn't be surprising that they have captured the imaginations of many of the...

"We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar," 1837 From the start of transcendentalism and America's intellectual renaissance in the 1830s, to the Civil War and beyond,...