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History of the United States - Written for the Chautauqua reading circles - Vol. 7 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1887.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. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are ava...

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Stories of Invention - told by inventors and their friends is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885.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. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques...

Stories of the Sea - Told by Sailors - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880.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. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hanseb...

Stories of the Sea - Told by sailors is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1880.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. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newl...

Philip Nolan's Friends is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877.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. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes th...

Excerpt from Stories of Adventure, Told by AdventurersThis volume, like the four others in the same series, was suggested at the Librarians' Congress in Boston.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving th...

Excerpt from The Arabian Nights: A Selection of Stories From Alif Laila Wa Laila, the Arabian Nights' EntertainmentIt is related (but Godaloue is all-knowing, as well as all-wise, and almighty, and all-bountiful), that there was, in ancient times, a King of the countries of India and China, possasing numerous troops, and guards, and servants, and domestic dependents: and he had two sons, one of whom was a man of mature age, and the other, a yo...

Excerpt from Franklin in France: From Original Documents, Most of Which Are Now Published for the First TimeIt is believed that Temple Franklin then wanted to print a much more complete collection. Certainly, the collection which he does print is far from complete. It was evidently not made on the principle of selecting the most interesting or the most important documents. He seems to have reserved those of the later years of Frank lin's stay ...

Excerpt from Seven Spanish Cities, and the Way to ThemWhy should this man write a book about Spain, when he was there so short a time?That is a very fair question. The answer is chie¿y personal. In my very earliest days, an uncle, aunt, and cousin of mine, all very dear to me in my babyhood, went to Spain and remained there many years. Their letters from Spain and their Spanish curiosities were among the home excitements of my childhood, and t...

Excerpt from Franklin in France, Vol. 2: From Original Documents, Most of Which Are Now Published for the First TimeThe reader of our first volume will see at once, that, with the great American success at Yorktown, the position of Franklin in France is essentially changed. He had no longer to make friends. The new-born nation had friends in plenty. Condorcet, in his eulogy on Franklin, delivered after his death, observes the complete change i...

Excerpt from Stories of Invention: Told by Inventors and Their FriendsThe reader may or may not have seen these books, so much the worse for him if he have not, but that omis sion of his may be easily repaired. There are four of them stories OF war told by Soldiers stories OF the sea told by Sailors, stories OF adventure told by Ad venturers stories OF discovery told by Discoverers.Since the regular meetings began, of which these books are the...

Excerpt from Independence Day: An AddressThe Declaration differs thus - it differs by the whole sky - from the declaration by which Texas announces that it will be independent of Mexico. It differs from any declaration by which Athens or Spar ta, seventy years ago, might have said, We will be independent of the Sublime Porte. It differs from any declaration by which Venezuela or Peru might have said, We will be independent of Spain or Brazil, ...

Excerpt from If Jesus Came to BostonI had Mr. Stead's book in my pocket one afternoon when I called on Dr. Primrose. I am used to advising with him, and I get good sense from him, if I let him have his head and do not interrupt him. I found him on the back veranda of his pretty house in South Boston, - high enough, it stands, to overlook the whole bay. A pretty sight, of an October afternoon, when the yachts are all astir, and everything is su...

Excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Address Delivered Before the Brooklyn Institute on the 24th of May, 1893, the Ninetieth Anniversary of Mr. Emerson's BirthWhen the celebrated Arthur Stanley, Dean of Westminster, had finished his visit here in the year 1878, he was asked about the American pul pit. He said, in reply, that he had of course availed himself of every opportunity to hear the American preachers. He had heard preachers of eminence...

Excerpt from Hands OffWas in another stage of existence. I was free from the limits of Time, and in new relations to Space.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing im...

Excerpt from The New Harry and Lucy: A Story of Boston in the Summer of 1891HE patent laws of the United States and of most other countries require that a person who offers an invention as new to the examiners in the Patent Office shall state first what he does not claim and then what he does claim. That is, the inventor is made to say: I do not claim the invention of carrying passengers by steam, that invention has been made already. I do cla...

Excerpt from Prayers in the Senate: Prayers Offered in the Senate of the United States in the Winter Session of 1904I never went into the glad companionship of that honored father, who led me for the first forty-two years of my life, with any statement in writing of what I wished to say to him.Nor have lever prepared such a statement in advance of any special interview with my Heavenly Father.The words of the prayers in this book would, there ...

Excerpt from Sunday-School Stories, Vol. 2: On the Golden Texts of the International Lessons of 1889These volumes are all affectionately dedicated to the young people of the Sunday-schools of England and America, with every prayer for their welfare.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotte...

Excerpt from Lend a Hand, 1887, Vol. 2: A Journal of Organized PhilanthropyIf, however, the Probate Court finds that the parents of a child are unfit (or, if it finds one of them unfit, and the other files in court his or her consent) the Court may order that the guardian shall have the custody of the child.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book...