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"Appendix to the catalogue of the flora of Nebraska." With a supplementary list of recently reported species
- Author: Webber, Herbert John, 1865-1946
- Genre: Catalogs
Title-page reads: "...A second edition of Webber's 'Appendix to the catalogue of the Flora of Nebraska.'" "Published orginally in the Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis (Vol.VI, no.1, March 12, 1892) The present edition differs from the first only in the correction of a few minor errors, and the rearrangement of the index." cf. Pref
"The book!", or, The proceedings and correspondence upon the subject of the inquiry into the conduct of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, under a commission appointed by the King in the year 1806
Book digitized by Google and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Published anonymously "A genuine and unmutilated copy of the suppressed book, as it was printed ... in the year 1807, under the direction of the late Mr. Perceval"--Advertisement, p. [iii]
[Catalogue of] the McLaughlin Carriage Company, Oshawa, Ont. Canada [microform]
- Author: McLaughlin Carriage Company
- Genre: Catalogs
Cover title Catalogue for the year 1896--Cf. Introduction Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the New Brunswick Museum, St. John 43
[Work] 2
- Author: Pater, Walter, 1839-1894
- Genre: Catalogs
Vol. 1. The Renaissance.- Vol. 2-3. Marius, the Epicurean.- Vol. 4. Imaginary portraits.- Vol. 5. Appreciations, with an Essay on style.- Vol. 6. Plato and Platonism.- Vol. 7. Greek studies.- Vol. 8. Miscellaneous studies.- Vol. 9. Gaston de Latour 26 45 52
a book of english gardens
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ALBURY, SURREY " Now birds record new harmony; And trees do whistle melody! Now everything that Nature heeds Doth clad itself in pleasant weeds." Thomas Watson ALBURY, SURREY OF all the fascinating characters of the Restoration, none was more wholly delightful or exercised a wider influence over his contemporaries than John Evelyn. Living in the times of Charles I., Oliver Cromwell, Charles II., James II., and William III., though a pronounced Royalist, he was yet respected by Cromwellno lover of the King's friendsand much sought after by both the learned and the rich for the charm of his conversation and the greatness of his abilities. Evelyn has left behind him two living evidences of his genius his books and his Gardens. Of his many books the one best known to-day is his Diarya veritable treasure-house of customs, habits, and fashions at one of the most interesting periods of history. And his Gardens have justly earned for him the title of the Greatest of England's Garden Philosophers. Infinite charm is to be found in the Gardens designed by Evelyna charm apparently lost in thesemodern days, and which no well-intentioned copy ever achieves. So subtle and delicate is it that it only lingers in the Gardens that he not merely designed but whose progress was his personal care. How strongly the spirit of the man (who, Horace Walpole says, " really was the neighbour of the Gospel, for there was no man that might not have been the better for him") dwells in his Gardens can best be realised by those who have paced the Terraces at Albury Park, belonging to the Duke of Northumberland, one of the many English Gardens which owes its chief beauties to Evelyn's genius. This Albury Park is often mentioned in the Diary ; the first allusion to it being in 1648, when Evelyn ...
a book of narratives
- Author: oscar james campbell
- Genre: Catalogs
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I. THE PIECE OF STRING1 Guy De Maupassant It was market-day, and over all the roads round Goderville the peasants and their wives were coming towards the town. The men walked easily, lurching the whole body forward at every step. Their long legs were twisted and deformed by the slow, painful labors of the country:by bending over to plough, which is what also makes their left shoulders too high and their figures crooked; and by reaping corn, which obliges them for steadiness' sake to spread their knees too wide. Their starched blue blouses, shining as though varnished, ornamented at collar and cuffs with little patterns of white stitch-work, and blown up big around their bony bodies, seemed exactly like balloons about to soar, but putting forth a head, two arms, and two feet. Some of these fellows dragged a cow or a calf at the end of a rope. And just behind the animal, beating it over the back with a leaf-covered branch to hasten its pace, went their wives, carrying large baskets from which came forth the heads of chickens or the heads of ducks. These women walked with steps far shorter and quicker than the men; their figures, withered and upright, were adorned with scanty little shawls pinned over their flat bosoms; and they enveloped their heads each in a white cloth, close fastened round the hair and surmounted by a cap. Now a char-a-banc passed by, drawn by a jerky-paced nag. It shook up strangely the two men on the seat. And the womanat the bottom of the cart held fast to its sides to lessen the hard joltings. 1 Reprinted from The Odd Number with the kind permission of Harper and Brothers. This story is discussed at length in the Introduction, pages 4-5, 7-8. In the market-place at Goderville was a great crowd, a mingled multitude of men and beasts. The horns...