On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its sha …
The Theory of Economics does not furnish a body of settled conclusions immediately applicable to policy. It is a method rather than a doctrine, an app …
Custom demands a preface; and though the public is generally uninterested in the reasons which influence an author to appear before its tribunal, yet …
An apartment at the house of MR. LYNX; A fire place on the L. H. S. E. before which LYNX is discovered in his morning gown, reading a newspaper. A tab …
The early Greek epic—that is, poetry as a natural and popular, and not (as it became later) an artificial and academic literary form—passed through th …
What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite …
[SCENE.--A room furnished comfortably and tastefully, but not extravagantly. At the back, a door to the right leads to the entrance-hall, another to t …
THE object of this volume is to place before the general reader our two early poetic masterpieces — The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queen; to do s …
PREFACE.The following notes are by no means intended as a rule of thought by which nurses can teach themselves to nurse, still less as a manual to tea …
I do not claim that I can tell a story as it ought to be told. I only claim to know how a story ought to be told, for I have been almost daily in the …