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Author: R. M. S. Jackson Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780265242063 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 650
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Excerpt from The Mountain All literature seems but the record of blunders, more or less flagrant and pitiable, of the thought trying to get the fatal word. How, then, shall a preface tell the main design of a book, essay, or discourse, when most books, essays, and discourses fail to tell it themselves, or succeed but lamely? A preface is often a simple Oyez! To the world, admonishing all persons that there is something for sale in the shape of intellectual merchandise, of which it affects to be a more or less perfect invoice. More generally the preface appears a forlorn and scraggy creation, in the form of a supplication to the reader to have faith and go on, to screw up his courage to wade through the coming revelation, it may be of chaos and night, of heaviness and sleep; with a solemn assurance that his threshing shall not be of straw alone, but that the winnowing thereof will give some grains of wheat. 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 blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: R. M. S. Jackson Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780265242063 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 650
Book Description
Excerpt from The Mountain All literature seems but the record of blunders, more or less flagrant and pitiable, of the thought trying to get the fatal word. How, then, shall a preface tell the main design of a book, essay, or discourse, when most books, essays, and discourses fail to tell it themselves, or succeed but lamely? A preface is often a simple Oyez! To the world, admonishing all persons that there is something for sale in the shape of intellectual merchandise, of which it affects to be a more or less perfect invoice. More generally the preface appears a forlorn and scraggy creation, in the form of a supplication to the reader to have faith and go on, to screw up his courage to wade through the coming revelation, it may be of chaos and night, of heaviness and sleep; with a solemn assurance that his threshing shall not be of straw alone, but that the winnowing thereof will give some grains of wheat. 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 blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: S. R. Crockett Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781528385213 Category : Languages : en Pages : 386
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Excerpt from The Men of the Mountain And it is certain that neither his position as an ex-citizen of Geneva, nor the Bible bought in St. Andrew's Square, would have saved him had he not fallen on his knees, and with his hands clasped prayed for the ignorant men who, without reason, were sending him out of life; and, because they knew not what they did, breaking his old mother's heart away down yonder by Le Lochle. 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 blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Elisée Reclus Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781333402419 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 262
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Excerpt from The History of a Mountain Without knowing exactly whither my steps were lead ing me, I turned towards those great mountains whose jagged crests I beheld breaking the distant line of the horizon. On I went, following by-paths, and in the evening stopping before isolated inns. The sound of a human voice, the noise Of a footstep, made me shudder; but when I was walking alone I listened with melancholy pleasure to the birds singing, the river murmuring, and the thousand strains proceeding from the vast woods. Walking, as chance led me, either along the high-road or footpath, at last I reached the first defile of the moun tain. The wide plain, scored with indentations, stopped abruptly at the foot of the rocks and Slopes shaded by chestnut-trees. The lofty blue peaks, seen from afar, had disappeared behind other crests, which were not so high, yet nearer to me. By my side the river, which, lower down, falling over boulders, extended into a vast sheet Of water, owed rapidly down between the shining rocks, clad with a blackish-hued moss. Above each bank a low hill, the first lesser chain of the mountains, reared up its escarpments and bore upon its summit the ruins of a large tower, formerly the warder of the valley. I felt shut in between two walls; I had quitted the region of large towns, Of smoke and hubbub; enemies and false friends were left behind. 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 blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: Sarah Stokes Halkett Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484030748 Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
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Excerpt from Beyond the Mountain The fairy, laughing, said, You're cross; I'm sure you're full of smoke! 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 blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780243952250 Category : Languages : en Pages : 296
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Excerpt from Moving the Mountain This natural tendency to hope, desire, foresee and then, if possible, obtain, has been largely diverted from human usefulness since our goal was placed after death, in Heaven. With all our hope in Another World, we have largely lost hope of this one. 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 blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Emily R. Logue Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332143620 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 50
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Excerpt from At the Foot of the Mountain When we bowed under laws that a tyrant had made. Then, thou, Philadelphia, with generous hand, Didst offer thy bravest and best for our land; N 0 man found thee wanting, and proudly we claim The City of Brotherly Love as thy name. 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 blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Sarah Johnson Cocke Publisher: ISBN: 9781330807118 Category : Languages : en Pages : 340
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Excerpt from The Master of the Hills: A Tale of the Georgia Mountains The rails that form the fence of fame Oft-times decay or drop. It is not strange to find sometimes The bottom rail a-top. 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 blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Jean Stafford Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9780292751361 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 252
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Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1947.
Author: R. M. S. Jackson
Author: R. M. S. Jackson
Author: S. R. Crockett
Author: Elisée Reclus
Author: Sarah Johnson Cocke
Author: Sarah Stokes Halkett
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Author: Emily R. Logue
Author: John Harvey Williams
Author: Sarah Johnson Cocke
Author: Jean Stafford