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There had been some discussion as to improving and beautifying the city of San Francisco prior to the catastrophe of April 18th. Landscape architects had been consulted, proposals considered, and preliminary plans drawn. Therefore when on that day... Leer más

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. IT was in the month of May 1813 that I was so unlucky as to fall at last into the hands of the enemy. My knowledge of the English language had marked me out... Leer más

Her predilection for things French came from childish recollections of school-days in Paris, and a hasty removal thence by her father during the revolution of '48, of later travels as a little maiden, by diligence, to Pau and the then undiscovered... Leer más

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. M. le prince de Talleyrand est mort le 17 mai 1838.

I desire to state that the initial fact upon which I have founded this story is within my own experience. I travelled from Calais to Basle by the Engadine Express in the latter end of July, 1902, when my wife and myself were the only passengers. The... Leer más

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MY VERY GOOD LORD THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM HIS GRACE, LORD HIGH ADMIRAL OF ENGLAND EXCELLENT LORD: SALOMON saies; A good Name is as a... Leer más

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find a universal formula for it. The value of these attempts has most often been in the suggestive and... Leer más

ANGELO, Lord Deputy in the Duke's absence. Leer más

Among the names of great Americans of the nineteenth century there is scarcely one more familiar to the world than that of the subject of this biography. There are those that stand for higher achievement in literature, science and art, in public... Leer más

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. We all live a double life: the external life which the world sees, and the internal life of hopes and fears, joys and griefs, temptations and sins, which the... Leer más

It was a brilliant afternoon towards the end of May. The spring had been unusually cold and late, and it was evident from the general aspect of the lonely Westmoreland valley of Long Whindale that warmth and sunshine had only just penetrated to its... Leer más

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It is imperative that now at once, while these stupendous events are still clear in my mind, I should set them down with that exactness of detail which time... Leer más

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson, or Robert Louis Stevenson, as the world knows him, was still a boy when he published this rare volume of “A Child's Garden of Verses, ” although by the... Leer más

The Protagoras, like several of the Dialogues of Plato, is put into the mouth of Socrates, who describes a conversation which had taken place between himself and the great Sophist at the house of Callias— 'the man who had spent more upon the... Leer más

pubOne.info present you this wonderfully illustrated edition. The present publication is intended to supply a recognised deficiency in our literature— a library edition of the Essays of Montaigne. This great French writer deserves to be regarded as... Leer más

BOILEAU, PIERRE CORNEILLE, LA FONTAINE, RACINE, JEAN-BAPT. ROUSSEAU, LE BRUN, MATHURIN REGNIER, ANDRÉ CHÉNIER, GEORGE FARCY, DIDEROT, L'ABBÉ PRÉVOST, M. ANDRIEUX, M. JOUFFROY, M. AMPÈRE, BAYLE, LA BRUYÈRE, MILLEVOYE, CHARLES NODIER. Leer más

About the end of the year 1639, a troop of horsemen arrived, towards midday, in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne, from the direction of Paris. The country folk assembled at the noise, and found it to proceed... Leer más

ROB, JOHN, AND JESSE IN CAMP Well, here we are, fellows, said Jesse Wilcox, as he threw down an armful of wood at the side of the camp-fire. For my part, I believe this is going to be about the best trip we ever had. That's what I was telling Rob to... Leer más

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. THE HOUSE OF LANCASTER 1399-1422 [Sidenote: Henry the Fourth] Leer más

I propose to treat of Poetry in itself and of its various kinds, noting the essential quality of each; to inquire into the structure of the plot as requisite to a good poem; into the number and nature of the parts of which a poem is composed; and... Leer más