"To suppose that slavery can long continue in this country, when other nations shall have freed themselves from the foulest stain which ever polluted humanity, is to contemplate a period when the United States will become a nuisance upon earth, and an object of derision...
"Le reveil matin almanach pour l'année 1789 Paris: chez Boulanger rue du Pl. Pont chez le Papetier, 1789 AY831 Z7 1789Miniature almanacs were popular in Paris beginning in the early 1760s. Created as gifts for young ladies, they were also used as New Year’s presents given out...
“Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change…” — “Phoenix,” D.H. LawrenceThe Phoenix Woodstock, New York: Maverick Press xAP2 P556 Like the legendary phoenix, some books can be born again, rising...
"Both men and women are travellers in the great journey of life: as a species, their origin, their final destinies, their moral duties, are the same. Women, equally with men, to prepare themselves for the as yet unknown paths which they may be called to...
Viewe of a seditious bul sent into Englande, from Pius...
"I hope, speaking on the part of my companions and myself, that we have done all that we ought to do to prove our tenacity of purpose and devotion to the cause which we have undertaken. This attempt to escape by crossing the southern ice...
"Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages." -- Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre DameConstruction of the Notre Dame de Paris began between 24 March and 25 April, 1163. Notre Dame burned a month ago today. Its history, like that of...
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"Faster than fairies, faster than witches" From a Railway Carriage R. L. Stevenson Dunedin: Frayed Frisket Press, 2005 PR5489 A3 2005Robert Louis Stevenson's poem, "From A Railway Carriage" was first published in 1885 in A Child's Garden of Verse.England, not Utah, 1885 not 1869, but we like the way...
