Half-Hours with the Best Authors Volume 1-2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...Various 184 Primitive Christians HIGHLAND SNOW STUBM. (l'afie 22J Literature of the Age of Elizabeth Statesmanship.... Happiness in Solitude. The Cotter's Saturday Night A Co-operation.... I Industry essentially Social Examples of Spiritual Perfection. Deposition of Richard II. Slide of Alpnach.... John Elwes the Miser Martinus Scriblerus Earthquake in London, 1750 Introduction to the 'Night Thoughts' Savages of North America, 1784. Story of Le Fevre Origin of Duelling Death of Pliny the Elder Morning..... The Royal Household in 1780 On the New Testament The Sloth The Poet described Character of Louis XI.. Faustus..... Caius Marius.... Apophthegms.--V. Christian Charity The Last of the Incas. The Rise of Wolsey Summer.--II Scene from the Critic. Swineherds of the New Forest Gardens St. Paul My Maiden Brief.... Apophthegms.--VI. Luxury of Roman Nobles Pains of Opium.... Health and Long Life. Evening The Coming of Our Saviour. Labour in Utopia., The Schoolmistress Academy of Lagado Sir W. Grant.... What is a Poet?. Deafness..... God's Mercy.. _ serre Pliny Various Burke---Doddridge Waierton Dr. Johnson--294 Comines 296 Goethe 301 Plutarch 307 Various 316 J. B. Sumner 318 W. H. Prescott 321 330 332 337 342 344 347 353 Various 357 A. MarceUutvs 361 De Quincey 366 Sir W. Temple 375 Cavendish Various Sheridan Gilpin Jesse Cave 92.--ESCAPE FROM THE BASTILLE. De Latude. in the year 1749, De Latude, who was of a respectable family in Languedoc, and intended for the engineers, came to Paris, and being unsuccessful in obtaining an appointment, he formed a scheme to gain the good-will of Madame de Pompadour, the king's mistress, by disclosing to her a pretended plot for poisoning her. This artifice being detected, he was seized and confined in the castle of Vincennes, ...