Philosophy
Fiction
Excerpt: It was an uncertain spring. The weather, perpetually changing, sent clouds of blue and of purple flying over the land. In the country farmers, looking at the fields, were apprehensive; in London umbrellas were opened and then shut by people looking up at the sky. But in April such weather was to be expected. Thousands of shop assistants made that remark, as they handed neat parcels to ladies in flounced dresses standing on the other side of the counter at Whitel...
Also ascribed to William Pulteney ; Reply to: Remarks on the Craftsman's vindication / John Hervey (also attributed to William Arnall or Robert Walpole) ; Library copy 2: 22 cm
Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, 1684-1764
The text of the essays in this volume is taken from the Thistle edition of the works of Stevenson, published by Charles Scribner's sons.--Pref ; Ordered south (1874)--On the enjoyment of unpleasant places (1874)--Walking tours (1876)--Virginibus puerisque.--An apologyfor idlers (1877)--Æs triplex (1878)--Walt WHitman (1878)--Crabbed age and youth (1878)--Henry David Thoreau (1880)--Samuel Pepys(1881)--Talk and talkers (1882)--A gossip of romance (1882)--The character of ...
Materia medica ; Materia medica
Spain. Cortes
Relativity (Physics)
Excerpt: THE COMMON READER There is a sentence in Dr. Johnson's Gray which might well be written up in all those rooms, too humble to be called libraries, yet full of books, where the pursuit of reading is carried on by private people. ... I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical hon...
Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton.
Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two.