The mythical serpents of Hebrew literature

There seems to be no limit to human credulity as to the forms which animals may assume, or the attributes which they may possess.^ Three stages in the development of fabulous creatures may be traced: The animal is first credited with (pertain powers it does not, and probably cannot have;^ then animals altogether fabulous, but still belonging to a definite and well-known class, are supposed to e…

Night and Morning

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4683783

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imslp; additional_collections

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Original poems : for good children

OH ! thank you, good Dobbin, you've been a Ioi:g track, And have carried papa all the way on your back ; You shall have some nice oats, faithful Dobbin, indeed, For you've brought papa home to his darlihgwith speed. The howling wind blew, end the pelting rain beat, And the thick mud has cover'd his legs and his feet, J3ul yet on he gallop'd in spite of the rain, And has brought papa home to …

Old Christie's cabin

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348569633

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cdl; americana

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srlf_ucla:LAGE-767949

Mrs. Dobbs' dull boy

R. and Mrs. Dobbs had three sons and three daughters : and I may state on the best authority (for surely a mother ought to know her own children) that every individual son and daughter was uncommonly clever, save one. That one was Jem, the dull boy. The young Dobbses were more than clever (I still speak on the best authority). They were equally remarkable for personal beauty as for mental en…

Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Lite…

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32767040

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gutenberg

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gutenberg etext# 36298

The tour of the world in eighty days

In the year 1872,-the house No. 7 Saville Row, _ Burlington Gardens—the house in which Sheridan dieu, in 1814—was inhabited by Phileas Fogg, Esq., one of the mdstajngular and most -noticed members Gi the Reform Club of London, although he seemed to take care to do nothing which might attract attention. This Phileas Fogg, then, an enig‘ matic personage, of whom nothing ‘was known but tha…

Luke Barnicott, and other stories

The village of Monnycrofts, in Derbyshire, may be Baid to be a distinguished village, for though it is not a city set on a hill, it is a village set on a hill. It may be seen far and wide with its cluster of red brick houses, and its taU gray-stone chorch steeple, which has -weathered the winds of many a century. The distant traveller observes its green upward sloping fields, well embellished b…

On the question proposed for disussion to the Botanical Congress at St. Peter…

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The makers of Venice

Venice has long borne in the imagination of the world a distinctive position, something of the character of a great enchantress, a magician of the seas. Her growth between the water and the sky; her great palaces, solid and splendid, built, so to speak, on nothing; the wonderful glory of light and reflection about her; the glimmer of incessant brightness and movement; the absence of all those h…