Excerpt: Grinnell, George Bird. The Girl Who Was the Ring. Harper's Monthly 102 (Feb. 1901): 425-30. Of all the games played by men among the Pawnee Indians, none was so popular as the stick game. This was an athletic contest between pairs of young men, and tested their fleetness, their eyesight, and their skill in throwing the stick. The implements used were a ring six inches in diameter, made of buffalo rawhide, and two elaborate and highly ornamented slender sticks, o...
Vol. 5
AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT. -- SECTION I. OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF MORALS. -- SECTION II. OF BENEVOLENCE. -- SECTION III. OF JUSTICE. -- SECTION IV. OF POLITICAL SOCIETY. -- SECTION V. WHY UTILITY PLEASES. -- SECTION VI. OF QUALITIES USEFUL TO OURSELVES. -- SECTION VII. OF QUALITIES IMMEDIATELY AGREEABLE TO OURSELVES. -- SECTION VIII. OF QUALITIES IMMEDIATELY AGREEABLE TO OTHERS. -- SECTION IX. CONCLUSION. -- APPENDIX I. CONCERNING MORAL SENTIMENT -- APPENDIX II. OF SELF...
PREFACE: A Vision for World Peace. Peace has been the most crucial issue of human existence from its inception. Beginning from the very first recorded murder, of Abel by his brother Cain - the children of Adam and Eve mentioned in the Book of Genesis - the history of war and bloodshed is nearly as old as the history of humankind. Right up to the present day, we continue to witness outbreaks of violence throughout our war-torn global village: just recently, the 11 Septemb...
Religion and Christian Theology Collection
Excerpt: The Word was at the start...and the Word was God...All things were made by Him...The only-begotten Son Who is in the bosom of the Father, has declared Him... He baptizes with the Holy Spirit...Keep on going, and make all nations disciples, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit!... He who has believed and who has been baptized, shall keep on being saved. ( John 1:1,3,18,33; Matthew 28:19 & Mark 16:16) In the days of Noah...
Excerpt: Zeal to promote the common good, whether it be by devising anything ourselves, or revising that which hath been laboured by others, deserveth certainly much respect and esteem, but yet findeth but cold entertainment in the world. It is welcomed with suspicion instead of love, and with emulation instead of thanks: and if there be any hole left for cavil to enter, (and cavil, if it do not find a hole, will make one) it is sure to be misconstrued, and in danger to ...
Excerpt: Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Thomas Common.
Excerpt: ?The Legend of Sleepy Hollow? by Washington Irving.
Excerpt: THIS is a Tale about a tail a tail that belonged to a little red squirrel, and his name was Nutkin...
Excerpt: The study of history, like the study of a landscape, should begin with the most conspicuous features.
Excerpt: It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a luster in the British Linen Company?s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explorations, I am not without hope. There should be left in our native city some seed of the elect; some long-legged, hot-headed youth must repeat to-day our drea...
Excerpt: Treats of the place where Oliver Twist was born, and of the circumstances attending his birth. Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no pos...
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