Classicly Collection of Books

Structure and Functions of the Body

Annette Fiske

Anatomy is the study of the physical structure and physiology the study of the normal functions of the human body. Chemical Constitution of the Body.—In the body only twenty elements have been found. ..

The Enormous Word

William Oberfield

A dark shadow fell over him. An opening suction-cupped down around him and clanged shut. Only then did the terrible force that held him in its embrace subside. Only then was he able to move freely and..

Upper Canada Sketches

Thomas Conant

THERE is no reason to doubt that the progenitor of the Conant family in England and America came originally from Normandy, in 1066, as one of the followers of William the Conqueror. Frederick Odell Co..

Flame-Jewel of the Ancients

Edwin L. Graber

A double tap on his shoulder informed him that the first pilot was there to take over. Smoothly he slipped from the shock seat and took up his station with the other two pilots near the auxiliary cont..

Primitive Time-reckoning

Martin P. Nilsson

The observation of chronological matters varies greatly in the ethnographical literature; I have gone through many books without result, and in other cases my gains have often been small. It is only i..

Some Historic Trees

Anonymous

Probably the most ancient of these living links connecting the present and the past was the Big Tree that stood on the bank of the Genesee River, near the village of Geneseo, New York. When first seen..

The Humour of Holland

W. H. Dircks

The humour of the Netherlands has, in common with that of Scotland, a certain canniness and practical shrewdness, characteristic of men and nations who have bought their experience at first hand and a..

The Irish War

David Burr

Because of mutual fears and for safety the laborers had so hired out to the contractors that they had about equally divided the line between the parties; the Corkmen worked on the upper part, and the ..