The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Man of Letters as a Man of Business, by William Dean Howells potx

... because they have the affair altogether in their hands they are apt to take advantage in it; but this does not follow, and as a matter of fact they have the affair no more in their own hands than any ... have wider acceptance as a book from having been a magazine serial. I am not sure that the decay of the book is not owing somewhat to the decay of The Project G...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:21

... writing of him as an Artist. Besides, as an artist he has been done a great deal already; and a commercial state like ours has really more concern in him as a business man. Perhaps it may sometime ... at Oxford made an American collegian say in a theme which they imagined for him in his national parlance; and the man of letters, as an artist, is apt to have times and...

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... similarity of views in the matter of womankind. Daddy Croizeau went to dine with 'M. Denisart's fair lady,' as he called her. And here I must make a that creaked like an abbe's; ... minutes' time they had come to an end of all the deep reflections, all the moralizings, small and great, all the bad puns made on a subject already exhausted by Rabel...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

... stood as a man might stand who sees a vision, hardly breath- ing. I made no sound, yet she turned and saw me, sheltered as I was by the dappled trunk of a tall plane-tree. It was as if I had called, ... the car's sudden loss of power. But even as he spoke, the mystery was solved. There was a leak in the petrol-tank, near the bottom; the last drop of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... cows. In the second there are twice as many as in the first, and in the third there are one-half as many as in the first. How many cows are there in each pasture? 4. What number is that which being ... much corn as wheat. How many bushels of each? 3. A man bought a farm and buildings for $12,000. The buildings were valued at one-third as much as the farm. What...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... temperature at any point of the plate. Let us take the base as the axis of X and one end of the base as the origin. Then to solve the problem we are to find the temperature u of any point from the ... shall call the base of the plate, is kept at the temperature unity, and that the temperatures of points in the plate decrease indefinitely as we recede...

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... Messrs. Schaeberle and Burckhalter on the part of the Society. It was Resolved, That Article VII of the By- Laws of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific be amended so as to read as follows: “Article ... second. Taking Polaris for the standard star, the above-measured diameters give the following values for a and b as found by the method of least square...

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... the last morning that Grandpa and Grandma were there, Daddy said at the breakfast table—quite suddenly, as if he had just thought of it— "Mother, suppose But Grandma knew. Away back in the orchard, ... man was passing by at that moment. He picked up a board and ran to the pond as fast as he could. And he reached it just in time to save little Willie. "Dragging...

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... looked straight into their faces, unashamed and unafraid. They dropped their eyes, and hurried away as quickly as they could. They did not bother Charles again; for the principal had heard of their actions, ... water; and she ran to the road, screaming at the top of her voice. " ;A man was passing by at that moment. He picked up a board and ran to the pond as fast...

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... of his youth. What has become of that boy to- day? You may have repented. He has passed put of your sight. He has gone years and years ago. Somewhere in this great, multitudinous mass of humanity ... Only then it opens by and by into the largest and noblest works of men, in which they most manifest the richness of their human nature and appropriate the strength of God....

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