Excerpt: "e;His full name was Percival William Williams, but he picked up the other name in a nursery-book, and that was the end of the christened titles.
"e;Under the Guns: A Woman's Reminiscences of the Civil War"e; by Annie Wittenmyer is a vivid and deeply personal account of life on the front lines-not as a soldier, but as a compassionate and determined woman who witnessed the brutal realities of war while tirelessly serving the wounded and the dying.
Excerpt: "e;The isolation in which Cornwall had stood has tended to develop in it much originality of character; and the wildness of the coast has bred a hardy race of seamen and smugglers; the mineral wealth, moreover, drew thousands of men underground, and the underground life of the mines has a peculiar effect on mind and character: it is cramping in many ways, but it tends to develop a good deal of religious enthusiasm, that occasionally breaks forth in wild forms of fanaticism.
Auszug: "Die Geschichte, die ich erzählen will, ereignete sich in jener im Großen und Ganzen glücklichen Zeit, da sich die Planeten um die Sonne drehten ohne zu fragen warum, und die Sonne ganz gedankenlos, ohne sich nach einem Spiegel zu sehnen, ihre leuchtenden Strahlenbündel von sich schleuderte.
Captain Mallender comes to old Madras in search of his uncle, once a reputable officer in the Blue Hussars, who disappeared mysteriously about thirty years ago.
Excerpt: "e;Among the many gallant Irishmen, and those descended from the Irish race, who served in the armies of France, and sought there those honours and distinctions which political misfortune and studied misrule denied them at home, I know of none more distinguished, and of none whose name is more worthy of being rescued from oblivion, than General the Count de Lally, the ill-requited leader of the troops of Louis XV.
This volume consists largely of Stevenson's thoughts as he journeyed by train in 1879 from New York to San Francisco, in pursuit of the American woman he had recently met on the Continent (and who was to become his wife).
Excerpt: "e;All save one of the papers here collected were written as lectures and read from a desk at Cambridge; the exception being that upon Trollope, contributed to The Nation and the Athenaeum and pleasantly provoked by a recent edition of the "e;Barsetshire"e; novels.
Excerpt: "e;On the evening of the last day of June 1806, the transports which had brought our troops from Sicily anchored off the Italian coast, in the Bay of St.
Excerpt: "e;It is narrated (and God knows best the true state of the case) by Abu Ali Jafir Bin Yakub-ulisfahani that when, in His determinate Will, The Benefactor had decided to create the Greatest Substitute (Adam), He despatched, as is known, the faithful and the excellent Archangel Jibrail to gather from Earth clays, loams, and sands endowed with various colours and attributes, necessary for the substance of our pure Forefather's body.
Excerpt: "e;This soldier, whose name, from the circumstances connected with his remarkable story, daring courage, and terrible fate, is still remembered in the regiment, in the early history of which he bears so prominent a part, was one of the first who enlisted in Captain Campbell of Finab's independent band of the Reicudan Dhu, or Black Watch, when the six separate companies composing this Highland force were established along the Highland Border in 1729, to repress the predatory spirit of certain tribes, and to prevent the levy of black mail.
Excerpt: "e;If any one wishes to form the fullest estimate of the real character and influence of the great man whose name is prefixed to these remarks, he will not find it in his novels, splendid as they are, or in his ethical views, clearly and finely as they are conceived and expanded.
Auszug: "Wenn es für ein Findelkind ein erhebendes Gefühl ist, sich selbständig durch die Welt geschlagen zu haben, so hat doch das Bewußtsein, einem edlen Stamm wackerer Vorfahren entsprossen zu sein, einen höheren Wert, in dem Maße, als dankbare Pietät das kühle Selbstgefühl, niemand als sich selbst für sein Leben verpflichtet zu sein, an wärmender und beglückender Kraft überwiegt.
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, first published in New York on April Fool's Day 1857, is the ninth book and final novel by American writer Herman Melville.
