Author: Alfred George Gardiner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Windfalls
Memories of the Kaiser's Court
Author: Anne Topham
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Windfalls
Author: Alfred George Gardiner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
But before I proceed it is necessary to explain. You will have observed that I have twice referred to Jemima in the masculine gender. Doubtless, you said, "How careless of the printer. Once might be forgiven; but twice--" Dear madam' (or sir), the printer is on this occasion blameless. It seems incredible, but it's so. The truth is that Jemima was the victim of an accident at the christening ceremony. He was one of a brood who, as they came like little balls of yellow fluff out of the shell, received names of appropriate ambiguity-all except Jemima. There were Lob and Lop, Two Spot and Waddles, Puddle-duck and Why?, Greedy and Baby, and so on. Every name as safe as the bank, equal to all contingencies-except Jemima. What reckless impulse led us to call him Jemima I forget. But regardless of his name, he grew up into a handsome drake-a proud and gaudy fellow, who doesn't care twopence what you call him so long as you call him to the Diet of Worms.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
But before I proceed it is necessary to explain. You will have observed that I have twice referred to Jemima in the masculine gender. Doubtless, you said, "How careless of the printer. Once might be forgiven; but twice--" Dear madam' (or sir), the printer is on this occasion blameless. It seems incredible, but it's so. The truth is that Jemima was the victim of an accident at the christening ceremony. He was one of a brood who, as they came like little balls of yellow fluff out of the shell, received names of appropriate ambiguity-all except Jemima. There were Lob and Lop, Two Spot and Waddles, Puddle-duck and Why?, Greedy and Baby, and so on. Every name as safe as the bank, equal to all contingencies-except Jemima. What reckless impulse led us to call him Jemima I forget. But regardless of his name, he grew up into a handsome drake-a proud and gaudy fellow, who doesn't care twopence what you call him so long as you call him to the Diet of Worms.
The Kaiser's Daughter
Author: Viktoria Luise (Herzogin zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood
Author: James Conway Walter
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530693504
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"[...] CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF THE WELL. It has been remarked that the discovery of many of our medicinal springs has been due to some romantic incident, or, in other cases, to some occurrence partaking almost of the ludicrous. At the famed Carlsbad, for instance, a princely hunter pursues his stag into the lake where it has sought refuge, whereupon the unusual cries of his hounds, too eagerly breasting the waters, speedily reveal to him the strongly thermal nature of the spring which feeds the lake, and the discovery has benefited the thousands who annually frequent that health-giving resort from almost every land. On the other hand, in the case of our own Bath, although well known to the ancient [...]".
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530693504
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"[...] CHAPTER I. THE HISTORY OF THE WELL. It has been remarked that the discovery of many of our medicinal springs has been due to some romantic incident, or, in other cases, to some occurrence partaking almost of the ludicrous. At the famed Carlsbad, for instance, a princely hunter pursues his stag into the lake where it has sought refuge, whereupon the unusual cries of his hounds, too eagerly breasting the waters, speedily reveal to him the strongly thermal nature of the spring which feeds the lake, and the discovery has benefited the thousands who annually frequent that health-giving resort from almost every land. On the other hand, in the case of our own Bath, although well known to the ancient [...]".
The History of Ballarat
Author: William Bramwell Withers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballarat (Vic.)
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballarat (Vic.)
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Helen Keller's Journal, 1936-1937
Author: Helen Keller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781397690319
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"It is a record of her awakening from a great spiritual numbness into a renewed determination to make her life of service to others -- to live so that on each third of March to come she can look back upon some achievement that has justified her teacher's faith in her. Miss Keller's whole philosophy is in these pages" -- page vi.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781397690319
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"It is a record of her awakening from a great spiritual numbness into a renewed determination to make her life of service to others -- to live so that on each third of March to come she can look back upon some achievement that has justified her teacher's faith in her. Miss Keller's whole philosophy is in these pages" -- page vi.
The Book of Wallace
Author: Charles Rogers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Illustrated London News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Rupert Brooke
Author: Nigel Jones
Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9781860661778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Since his death in the First World War, Brooke has been identified with a romantic myth of a lost world where church clocks stood still and there was eternal honey for tea. But, as this book shows, the truth about Brooke was both more shocking and a lot more interesting. Drawing on a mass of documentation, much of it unpublished, this new biography brings out the full story behind one of the century's most enduring literary legends.
Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9781860661778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Since his death in the First World War, Brooke has been identified with a romantic myth of a lost world where church clocks stood still and there was eternal honey for tea. But, as this book shows, the truth about Brooke was both more shocking and a lot more interesting. Drawing on a mass of documentation, much of it unpublished, this new biography brings out the full story behind one of the century's most enduring literary legends.