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 specimen hunters

ENJOYING the enormous endowment that it did, the Occidental University could afford to do things on a grand scale. Accordingly, when it was decided to make the department of Natural History especially rich in examples of the wild life of the Orient, the authorities considered that the best way to accomplish this would be to send the head of that department to obtain personally what was sought. …

Suspense Digest March 2012

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89430487

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Chaperoning Adrienne; a tale of the Yellowstone National Park. With illustrat…

HAT husband of Anabella's had to come down with the measles or she never would have keyed me up to be a Machiavelli, or whoever it may be who is synonymous with craft and cruelty to lovers. Measles, indeed! On such trivial things as measles do the really great events of life turn! Still, nothing has turned yet, and I hope that nothing will. I know nature never intended me for a chaperon. …

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 natural history and antiquities of Selborne, in the county of Southampton

Tue Author of the following Letters, takes the liberty, with all proper deference, of laying before the public his idea of parochial history, which, he thinks, ought to consist of natural productions and occurrences as well as antiquities. He is also of opinion that if stationary men would pay some attention to the districts on which they reside, and would publish their thoughts respecting the …

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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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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