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Excerpt from Martin RattlerAn alligator hunt - Remarkable explosions - The rainy season ushered in by an awful resurrection.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 i...

Excerpt from An Island in the Air: A Story of Singular Adventures, in the Mesa Country About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 imperfections present in the ag...

Excerpt from Le Chevalier De Maison-Rouge As we have previously said, it was the evening of the loth of March, 1793. A few remarks upon the extreme situation which had produced the changed aspect of the capital before we commence stating the events, the recital of which forms the subject of this history. France, by the death of Louis XVI., had become at variance with all Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thou...

Excerpt from A Rough Hand-List of the Tudor Facsimile Texts, Old English Plays, Printed Mss: Rarities, Exact Collotype Reproductions in Folio Quarto Creede. 1598. [preparing] Licensed 14 May, 1594, but no earlier edition than that for 1598 is known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. F...

Excerpt from The Theology of the Early Christian Church, Vol. 2: Exhibited in Quotations From the Writers of the First Three Centuries, With Reflections The following course of Lectures being designed to afford the means of judging, by copious extracts, of the theology of the first ages of the church, the reflections which are interspersed may be regarded as mere helps to the formation of just conclusions, and may be adopted or rejected accor...

Excerpt from The Beaux of the Regency, Vol. 1 It may be objected that most of the works mentioned are accessible, but the author believes, rightly or wrongly, that the majority of the memoirs of the dandies' contemporaries, containing as they do so much that is stale and unprofitable, have been long since relegated to the limbo of forgotten things. For ordinary purposes these scores of, for the most part, dreary reminiscences have no value ev...

Excerpt from Syntagma of the Evidences of the Christian Religion Paugh! It's a vile stinking darnel, and hath neither colour, scent, or medicine, to save it from our loathing! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct t...

Excerpt from The South in the Building of the Nation, Vol. 1 of 12: A History of the Southern States About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 imperfections pre...

Excerpt from Mistakes in Teaching The first step toward progress in any department of work, is to learn to avoid the mistake: one is liable to make. Young teachers should know the rocks which lie in their course before they begin to teach. Experience will then show how to shun cthem. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction...

Excerpt from Ninth Annual Address: Proceedings of the Society, in Regard to the Death of the Rev. Charles Hawley, D.D. With Memorial Address and Appendix, Constitution and by-Laws and Officers and Members The Cayuga County Historical Society first came into existence in March, 1876, and this is the ninth of its anniversary meetings. It was mainly through the active efforts of our late and much beloved President, Rev. Chas. Hawley, D. D., that...

Excerpt from The Foundations of Stereo Chemistry: Memoirs by Pasteur, Van't Hoff, Lebel, and Wislicenus Stereo-chemistry, or as it has sometimes been called, Chemistry in space, or Geometrical chemistry, is that branch of chemistry in which the relative position of the atoms in space is taken into consideration. The stereo-chemical theories, like most useful scientific theories, are the result of the necessary expansion of the older views to...

Excerpt from Concrete Designers' Manual: Tables and Diagrams for the Design of Reinforced Concrete StructuresThe authors have for some time been preparing and using in their practice various tables and diagrams in order to finally obtain complete data in the most convenient form and of the greatest value to the majority of designing engineers. The collection given in this book is the result.No attempt has been made to develop theory or to dupl...

Excerpt from Poems About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a b...

Excerpt from Speech (Suppressed by the Previous Question) Of Mr. John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, on the Removal of the Public Deposites, and Its ReasonsI feel myself, therefore, under an obligation of irremissible duty to ask the indulgence of the House for a few remarks upon the question now before them. I cannot promise to shed any new light upon the subject, but, if I do but repeat that which has been better said before, I will at leas...

Excerpt from Shinto (the Way of the Gods) Prehistoric Shinto. - Ethnologists are agreed that the predominant element of the Japanese race came to Japan by way of Korea from that part of Asia which lies north of China, probably by a succession of immigrations which extended over many centuries. It is useless to speculate as to what rudiments of religious belief the ancestors of the Japanese race may have brought with them from their continenta...

Excerpt from Reminiscences of the Opera IN offering to the public a record of the administration, vicissitudes, Splendours, and, I regret to add decline, of the establishment known as Her Majesty s Theatre, I cannot be said to be travelling over familiar ground. For it is worthy of remark that, while many bygone periods of theatrical history have found their chroniclers, their panegyrists, their enthusiastic remembrancers, the Space filled by...

Excerpt from The Hunchback of Notre-Dame After the death of his mother in 1821, he took a small house in a sequestered quarter, but refused to accept money from his father, and laboured day and night, that he might be the sooner in a condition to claim the hand of his mis tress, to whom he was united in the following year. His juvenile friend, Delon, was implicated in the conspiracy Of Saumur. Hugo wrote to his mother, Offering the fugitive a...

Excerpt from On a General Method in Dynamics The law of varying action, or the formula becomes therefore, when expressed by the present more general coordinates or marks Of position. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally recons...

Excerpt from The Mount of Olives: And Primitive Holiness Set Forth in the Life of Paulinus, Bishop of NolaThe two brief devotional treatises contained in this volume are both new and old. They comprise all the published prose, excluding several masterly translations - all the original prose, that is - of a writer of long ago, who has now won inevitably, but very late, his secure place among English poets. Born a twin, near Brecon in southern W...