Classics
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:Petronius Arbiter [Petronius Arbiter]

CHAPTER THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH. "But to make a long story short, you know the temptations that beset a full stomach: the soldier laid siege to her virtue with ...
( Category: Satire March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:St. Augustine of Hippo [Hippo, St. Augustine of]

23. This did a former Bishop of the Church of Thagasta, Firmus by name, and even more firm in will. For, when he was asked by command of the emperor, ...
( Category: Christian Church History March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas Hanshew

* * * CHAPTER XX ~ MAY HAD SMILED ITSELF OUT and June had blushed itself in—the most wondrous June, in Cleek’s eyes, the world had ever seen. For the ...
( Category: Police Procedurals March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-26 | Author:E. A. Wallis Budge [Unbekannt]

We have already alluded to the great number of gods who were known to the Egyptians, but it will be readily imagined that it was only those who were thought ...
( Category: Diseases & Physical Ailments March 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-04-10 | Author:Samuel Shellabarger [Shellabarger, Samuel]

“Nice-looking,” breathed Amélie. “He reminds me of Père Thibaut, my confessor at Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a dear man.” “How are you going to explain this to Père Thibaut?” Richard murmured. “Attending a ...
( Category: Classics March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-16 | Author:Samuel Johnson [Johnson, Samuel]

CHAPTER XXVII DISQUISITION UPON GREATNESS. The conversation had a short pause. The Prince, having considered his sister’s observation, told her that she had surveyed life with prejudice and supposed misery ...
( Category: European March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-14 | Author:Rudyard Kipling [Kipling, Rudyard]

( Category: Action & Adventure March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:Anton Chekhov [Chekhov, Anton]

( Category: Schools & Teaching March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

BOOK V ~ CHAPTER I ~ THE VICISSITUDES OF EMPIRES—THE STATE of Italy—The military factions of Sforza and Braccio—The Bracceschi and the Sforzeschi attack the pope, who is expelled by ...
( Category: International & World Politics March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-15 | Author:Samuel R. Wells [Wells, Samuel R.]

MUSIC When music commences, conversation should cease. It is very rude to talk while another person is singing or playing. A lady should never exhibit any anxiety to sing or ...
( Category: Etiquette Guides & Advice March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-05 | Author:Charlotte Brontë [Brontë, Charlotte]

“Come,” she said, gliding towards the table. “Take a sandwich, Charles, and give me a wing of that chicken. We can amuse each other till Macara thinks proper to come ...
( Category: Classics March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-05 | Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]

Several of these tribes (tuath), each with its dun or fort, made up a mortuath, or great tribe, or province (there seem, as we saw, to have been seven in ...
( Category: Great Britain March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin [Saltykov-Shchedrin, M.E.]

‘Ah, but it wasn’t for the three thousand roubles, that’s the point. We just think it was, and so we keep on about the three thousand. But God...’ Judas was ...
( Category: Humor March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-18 | Author:Literary Cynics

The Listener’s knocks form an interesting pattern of interventions, since each time the Listener knocks, the Reader returns to the line he has just read, reads it again and pauses, ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-21 | Author:Charles A. Gunnison [Gunnison, Charles A.]

V. The winter went, and the hot summer passed pleasantly. It was about the beginning of October, when one morning, I walked down to Madre Moreno's house. I had become ...
( Category: World March 19,2020 )