French Literature Classics - Ultimate Collection: 90+ Novels, Stories, Poems, Plays & Philosophy

... bullet destined to go to the moon . ” " Do not let us exaggerate , my ... stability , I propose to give it a weight of 20,000 lbs . " " What will be ... calculator , Mr. Maston , will tell us at once . ” " Nothing is easier , " replied ...

... definition would be wonderfully convenient to all makers of systems. Thus the word wisdom is often taken for folly, and wit for nonsense. Humanly speaking, let us define truth, to better understand that which is declared— such as it is ...

... effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting. We may continue the reading of a prose ...

... amethyst. Involuntarily they halted. Alison pointed to lights a mile down ... frontier. Let's stop here for supper, and have our last look at Evallonia ... brave man,” he told himself. “The thing about you is that you're too much of a ...

... prelude to each, a complete artillery preparation, and that, since the ... cataclysm. In the first two months of the Somme battle some forty-four German ... a shattering blow at his moral. For two years the German behind the shelter ...

... Saint Francois de Sales , is that he cheated at play . And then , religion ... Leo II . wrote two special letters , one to Pierre Notaire , the other to ... Saint Benoit himself in France , in the abbey of Fleury , called Saint Benoit ...

... force, or power, without the concurring aid and favour of his assisting ... cuckold, if it please God, nor shall we need to despair of the knowledge of ... cuckold, that is to say, your wife shall never be a strumpet, if you make choice ...

... Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, M.Y. Saltykov, V.G. Korolenko, V.N. ... again Smerdyakov's name is pronounced , again there is a suggestion of mystery ... I have visited Smerdyakov , I have seen him and talked to him , and he made ...

... Cobalt is like that . I mean , he's straddling emotions which the rest of us ... way animals are natural . Not even wild Indians are natural the way Cobalt ... soul . " " It's true ! ” cried Baird , thumping his fist on his knee . “ He ...

... Sissy faltered. They were afraid to look; but they did examine it, and found no mark of violence, inside or out. It ... Heaven, not these dreadful cries! Think of Stephen, think of Stephen, think of Stephen!' By an earnest repetition of this ...

Including the Autobiography & Collected Letters Rabindranath Tagore. RAGHUPATI. Crime? Yes, my crime was that, in my weakness, I delayed in carrying out Mother's service. The punishment comes from the Goddess. You are merely her ...

... me, and been able to comfort many poor fellows, gone wrong for want of a word in time. Do this, and you will be able to kiss your mothers with clean lips, and by and by have the right to ask innocent girls ... rather my boys should be laughed ...

Charles Dickens. Chapter Nine . Town and Todger's Table of Contents Surely there never was , in any other borough ... means of escape might possibly present themselves in their own good time , but that to anticipate them was hopeless .

... all! Let our relations be a closed chapter in your life. You can do better ... of your graces, your pretty little ways, the elegancies of your life, and ... love to drag you down, to take the beauty and charm from your life, to fill it ...

... mountaintop, shining serene and high against the blue. "I think you will be something splendid, for you really look ... the mountaintop behind the mists. "Yes, well enough I always thought the profession a grand one, and where could I ...

... Tab had come by train, and there was a long walk to the station. He stayed to the very last moment, and then had to ... run, and then only caught the train as it was pulling out of the station. The inexorable and constitutionally discontented ...

... forest life. Terror, wood-craft, and humour could not be more felicitously intermingled. The reader, while kept under the spell of the main theme of the story, experiences all the charm of an open-air life in the great forest of Villers ...

... audible voice . Under these conditions they would undertake to find out the true ... demon great power over her . Barre asked her how many there were present , and she replied , " Two , " thus proving that the devil was no stronger in ...

... prelude to each, a complete artillery preparation, and that, since the ... cataclysm. In the first two months of the Somme battle some forty-four German ... a shattering blow at his moral. For two years the German behind the shelter ...

... fetish words of the dead priest, the reverence which an all-powerful and ... smoke stole straight up in the breathless air. Amazed, the people stood and saw the ... smoking fiercely and felt himself a civiliser. But the boy seemed to feel ...

Sherlock Holmes Series, The Lost World, Mystery of Cloomber, The Poison Belt, The Land of Mists ... life, my all. I would give my life for you willingly, gladly—every beat of ... I can love with all my heart. Oh the difference it makes.

... bloodhound out into the paddock in front of the house and fastened it to a ... hound, which immediately settled down trustfully at the foot of the stake. He and the brothers ... belly, until at last it lay fully exposed, its head between its.

... spade (without telling David) or David gives him the logs to saw (without telling Maggie). We have given James a longer time to make his move than our kind friends in front will give him, but in the meantime something has been happening.

... forest life. Terror, wood-craft, and humour could not be more felicitously intermingled. The reader, while kept under the spell of the main theme of the story, experiences all the charm of an open-air life in the great forest of Villers ...

... R. C. What do you call religion? Old Gent. By religion, I mean the worshipping and paying homage to some supreme being; some God, known or unknown is not to the case, so it be but to something counted supreme. R. C. It is true, madam ...