Search      Hot    Newest Novel
Home > P List
Pic the Weapon-Maker

Cate: Short Stories  Author:novel 

It has been the tendency of certain anthropologists, of most popular writers, and of most artists in Europe and America to represent the men of the Old Stone Age as scarcely raised above the level of the brutes. I have protested against this point of view on what I believe to be very good grounds, namely, that modern man could not have...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein

Cate: Short Stories  Author:novel 

In the following Letters I have endeavoured to exhibit in their true light the singular natural phenomena of which old superstition and modern charlatanism in turn availed themselves—to indicate their laws, and to develop their theory. The subject is so important that I might well have approached it in a severer guise. But, slight as t...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Personality Plus

Cate: Short Stories  Author:novel 

When men began to build cities vertically instead of horizontally there passed from our highways a picturesque figure, and from our language an expressive figure of speech. That oily-tongued, persuasive, soft-stepping stranger in the rusty Prince Albert and the black string tie who had been wont to haunt our back steps and front office...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Pioneer Colored Christians

Cate: Short Stories  Author:novel 

 In the busy rush of life, the virtues of single individuals too often escape notice, or make but slight impression on the minds of their contemporaries. It is in after years, when the actors are dead and gone, that their virtues shine forth, and speak from the silence, through the pen of some one who catches them before it is too late.


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Pioneers Of France In The New World: France and England in North America

Cate: Classical Novels  Author:novel 

 The springs of American civilization, unlike those of the elder world, lie revealed in the clear light of History. In appearance they are feeble; in reality, copious and full of force. Acting at the sources of life, instruments otherwise weak become mighty for good and evil, and men, lost elsewhere in the crowd, stand forth as agents ...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Protection and Communism

Cate: Short Stories  Author:novel 

 This translation will not, it is hoped, be unacceptable to the English reader, particularly at the present moment, when it is not improbable that, under certain circumstances, a great effort may be made in this country to restore Protection—or, should that wild attempt be considered impossible, to shift the public burdens in such a ma...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Paul Prescott\'s Charge

Cate: Children's Novel  Author:novel 

 The speaker was a tall, pompous-looking man, whose age appeared to verge close upon fifty. He was sitting bolt upright in a high-backed chair, and looked as if it would be quite impossible to deviate from his position of unbending rigidity.


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Paul the Peddler

Cate: Children's Novel  Author:novel 

 The speaker, a boy of fourteen, stood in front of the shabby brick building, on Nassau street, which has served for many years as the New York post office. In front of him, as he stood with his back to the building, was a small basket, filled with ordinary letter envelopes, each labeled “Prize Package.”


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Phil the Fiddler

Cate: Children's Novel  Author:novel 

 Among the most interesting and picturesque classes of street children in New York are the young Italian musicians, who wander about our streets with harps, violins, or tambourines, playing wherever they can secure an audience. They become Americanized less easily than children of other nationalities, and both in dress and outward appe...


TAG:

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

Picked Up Adrift

Cate: Classical Novels  Author:novel 

The enterprising Voyageurs.—A Parliament—Where shall we go next?—The Islands of the Sea.—Captain Corbet’s Confession.—Once more, upon the Waters.—The lonely Isle.—The strange Schooner.—Ashore.—A new Acquaintance.—A Disciple of Progress.—Railroads and Telegraphs for the Magdalen Islands.


TAG: novel

Start Read / Save / Comments / PermaLink

All The Data From The Network AND User Upload, If Infringement, Please Contact Us To Delete! Contact Us
About Us | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Tag List | Recent Search  
©2010-2018 wenovel.com, All Rights Reserved