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We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in...

I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range over very variegated topics and in many cases were...

My dear children, do not blame others for your lack of success. Seek the cause of your ills in yourselves. Unless you are blinded by vanity you will discover your fault, and having discovered it you will see the way out of it. The remedy for your...

In selecting the tales that form this volume, the foremost place has been allotted to two romances of Death, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “ Ligeia.” The latter was considered by Poe himself the finest of all his tales, and in a well-known...

The Maha Ramayana, Greater Book, and it describes the inner life of Rama, telling how he triumphed over foes within himself, and so prepared to fight and conquer, for the helping of the world, the outer evil forces rampant in that time. The story of...

Besides Rabbi Ben Ezra, includes Author - Robert Browning. Narrator - Russell Stamets. Published Date - Sunday, 22 January 2023. Copyright - © 1915 Russell Stamets ©.

The présent small volume completes the translation of Karel Erben’s“A Hundred Genuine Popular Slavonie Fairy Stories.” The first volume, “Segnius Irritant,” maps out, so lo say, the primitive folk-lore weather myth, of which nearly the whole of the...

Finding from my own personal experience how troublesome it is to hunt through piles of dusty old volumes, I have decided to make a small selection of these papers which I consider are not only rare and v interesting, but which also give an insight...

My young readers ought to be told that the poem of the ' Mad Orlando ' is a continuation by Ariosto of a poem by Boiardo, an earlier poet, called ' Orlando in Love.' This helps to account for the abruptness with which the characters appear on the...

The Fatal MoveThe Vengeance of the DeadThe Fiend That Walks BehindThe Homing BoneProfessor Danvers’ DisappearanceThe Rejuvenation of Ivan Smithovitch Duration - 2h 3m. Author - Conall Cearnach. Narrator - Russell Stamets. Published Date - Saturday, 14...

Of the original source of the stories Bishop Steere could himself give no complete account. They were dictated to him by natives of Zanzibar ; and as the Swahili race is of mixed Arab and Negro descent, so its stories, though African in outline, are...

I want to put before you, if I can in these three lectures, a certain view of the world, and of the way in which that world is guided and directed. As this meeting is a public meeting, there is one statement I think that I ought to make, which it...

THE greater part of the unpublished remains of Anatole France consists of Dialogues which he intended to entitle Under the Rose.He liked that old-fashioned expression. In the course of an essay on the Emperor Julian in Life and Letters, he says :“ One...

If you want anything, you must in essence become that thing. Then the supreme law of attraction will be put into operation which will attract your desire. Your mental energy, plus your emotional nature must be focused in the idea of your creation,...