Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin is a book by Robert Louis Stevenson that serves as a tribute to the life and work of the electrical engineer and inventor Fleeming Jenkin.
American novelist Herman Melville's cryptic third work about uncontrollable waves of human desire and their ability to set a person adrift in a sea of spiritual, philosophical, and artistic chaos.
Excerpt: "e;Through the quiet night, crystalline with the pervading spirit of the frost, under prairie skies of mystic purple pierced with the glass-like glinting of the stars, fled Antoine.
Excerpt: "e;In a little saucer-like valley of the lower Berkshires, where the hills stand about in a wide circle, lies that most beautiful of Connecticut villages, Litchfield.
Zu den wiederkehrenden Themen gehören die typischen Motive des persischen Ghasels: unerwiderte Liebe, Trennung und Sehnsucht, aber auch das Schwärmen für die Schönheit und Reize der angebeteten Person.
It is written as a narrative of events in the tribal life of a boy and girl in the Congo Forest, culminating in an exciting fight between the tribe and a band of Arab slave traders which ends in the discomfiture of the latter.
Excerpt: "e;It was the evening of one of the last days of spring, when that delightful season is blending with the approaching summer, and when the sun was setting on one of those green and fertile landscapes which we find nowhere but in England, that a young man paused upon the crest of the eminence which overlooks, from the southward, the beautiful little vale and sequestered village of Acton-Rennel, and, with a kindling eye and flushing cheek, surveyed the scene and all its features, on which he had not gazed for what now seemed a long and weary lapse of time.
Excerpt: "e;When the colonists had acquired a mastery over the savages of the wilderness, and assisted in breaking the French power on their frontier, they began to feel their manhood stirring within them, and they tacitly agreed no longer to submit to the narrow and oppressive policy of Great Britain.
A classic book describing the journey the Author has made to Lhasa, the capital city of Tibet and to Central Tibet, when the land was untouched by the outside world, before the Chinese occupation.
Excerpt: "e;In this series of detached essays I have tried to gather and group the most salient and essential facts relating to the character, position, and intellectual attainments of women in the great ages of the world.
Excerpt: "e;The title of this work would probably convey no definite idea to the minds of most Europeans; it might be considered as merely a figurative expression.
Excerpt: "e;I think that in Anton Chekhov's presence every one involuntarily felt in himself a desire to be simpler, more truthful, more one's self; I often saw how people cast off the motley finery of bookish phrases, smart words, and all the other cheap tricks"e;.
Excerpt: "e;Strange it must appear that the account of perhaps the most celebrated and, certainly to the English nation, the most momentous voyage of discovery that has ever taken place--for it practically gave birth to the great Australasian Colonies--has never before been given to the world in the very words of its great leader.
Excerpt: "e;Contemplation of the published work has suggested to the author that greater significance might have been attributed to the background and environment of Tindale's early manhood.
