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The Young Continentals at Monmouth

The Young Continentals at Monmouth

by John T. McIntyre

Four sturdy young members of the Continental Army are the chief characters in this story. Ben Cooper and Nat Brewster were from Pennsylvania. Ezra Prentiss and his twin brother George were from Massachusetts. “The Young Continentals at Lexington,” the first book of the series, was chiefly concerned with the adventures of Nat Brewster, although all ..

An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart & Blood in Animals

An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart & Blood in Animals

by William Harvey

Harvey’s work, by which his name has been made immortal, strikingly illustrates this. He was the first to show the nature of the movements of the heart, and how the blood moved in the body. He did so by putting on one side authority, and directly appealing to observation and experiment. The completeness of the success with which this independent li..

Cottage scenes during the cholera

Cottage scenes during the cholera

by William Isaac Coppard

A larger congregation than usual assembled at the Church, both parts of the day; and, although our services are generally observed with strict propriety, upon this occasion, a death-like stillness, and a marked solemnity of deportment prevailed.  About double the usual number also availed themselves of the opportunity of receiving the Holy Com..

Life Among the Butterflies

Life Among the Butterflies

by Vance Randolph

Many ancient and mediaeval writers dealt with butterflies, but the first descriptions of American species are found in the works of Linnaeus, the great Swedish naturalist who wrote about 1750, and invented the system upon which all modern classification is based. Pictures of several American butterflies were published in 1759 by Charles Clerck, who..

Lives of Two Cats

Lives of Two Cats

by Pierre Loti

The face of the new cat was very prepossessing. The young, brilliant eyes, the tip of a pink nose, and all else lost in a mass of silken Angora fur; white, warm, clean, exquisite to fondle and caress. Besides, she was marked nearly like her predecessor from Senegal, which fact probably decided the selection of my mother and aunt Clara,—to the end t..

Making Good for Muley

Making Good for Muley

by W. C. Tuttle

Muley was a poetical puncher, of considerable avoirdupois, and he found Susie a thing of beauty and a joy forever. Susie was a niece of Zeb Abernathy, who owned a sheep outfit on Willow Creek, and a grouch toward all cowmen—and Muley punched cows for the Cross J outfit, and drew forty a month from old man Whittaker.I’m not belittling Muley’s salary..

The Character and Happiness of Them That Die in the Lord

The Character and Happiness of Them That Die in the Lord

by William Dealtry

Amidst the visions of the Apocalypse, St. John had just beheld an emblematical representation of the Church of Christ, and of its Almighty Protector: a Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, with a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads: the faithful followers of their Lord in a corrupt and degenerate age; t..

Apollo and Marsyas, and Other Poems

Apollo and Marsyas, and Other Poems

by Eugene Lee-Hamilton

Apollo and Marsyas, and Other Poems, by Eugene Lee-Hamilton is a collection of poems and sonnets written by Eugene Lee-Hamilton. This collection includesAPOLLO AND MARSYASSISTER MARY OF THE PLAGUETHE BRIDE OF PORPHYRIONHUNTING THE KINGABRAHAM CAREWAN ODE OF THE TUSCAN SHORESWORD AND SICKLE..