Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, Volume 1

A fascinating look at the early life of Abraham Lincoln through his term as Illinois congressman. Writer and poet Carl Sandburg, with an accumulation of historical documents and a storehouse of anecdotes about the object of his keen interest (having grown up in Illinois) paints a compelling picture of the 16th President and the rugged frontier life of the early 19th Century. - Summary by Scotty…

Pictures of Old England

THE } following Pictures of Old England were originally "^sketched by the author with the view of more clearly^illustrating to his countrymen his History of England in the Middle Ages1, a work which is admitted by all who are capable of forming an opinion on the question to be characterized by impartial truthfulness and by indefatigable industry in the research of minute documentary evidence. T…

University prints

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429274759

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cdl; americana

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The Sun-flower, or, Poetical blossoms

Henry Banks, though very young, ^ Will never do what's rude or wrong ; Hj^ When spoken to, he always tries ^g To give the most polite replies. Their ink about them, heedless, throw ; 3E $ But he, though young, has learned to 5 X think $ 5 That clothes look spoiled with spots j 3 of ink. 3 ^jg Pen laps some little boy may ask, jg jg If Henry always learns his task ; e/io With pleasu…

A theory of the genetic basis of appeal in literature

Possibly the most clearly distinguishing feature of the psychology of our time as compared with that of a generation ago is the relative by greater importance accorded the subject of psychic growth. The older psychology for the most part contented itself with defining a variety of terms which popular speech had already devised to name such different aspects of psychic life as the general consci…

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

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2294558464

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Some thoughts concerning education, and Consequences of the lowering of inter…

•SiR, — These Thoughts concerning Education, which now come abroad into the world, do of right belong to you, being written several years since for your sake, and are no other than what you have already by you in my letters. I have so little varied any thing, but only the order of what was sent you at different times, and on several occasions, that the reader will easily find, in the famili…

The Spy

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3023084399

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The church of the New Testament : the Presbyterate, a defense of Presbyterianism

The author has to acknowledge his deep obligations to the Rev. James Kennedy, B.D., of the Library of the New College, Edinburgh, whose value every student knows who ever passed through that Institution, and to whom the Free Church is under deep obligations. He has devoted his life to the cultivation of a high standard of learning among the young men, in urging them to graduate, and to his cour…

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…