Classicly Collection of Books

A Treatise on Bread, and Bread-making

Sylvester Graham

There are probably few people in civilized life, who—were the question put to them directly—would not say, that they consider bread one of the most, if not the most important article of diet which ent..

Aunt Lydia's Designs

American Thread Company

    With B embroider daisies in lazy daisy st. With C work French knot in center (twice around needle). With D embroider leaves in lazy daisy st; calyx and stems in satin st. With ..

Good Newes from New England

Edward Winslow

From thence they departed; and the wind being fair for the Massachusets, went thither, and the rather, because the savages, upon our motion, had planted much corn for us, which they promised not long ..

The Negro And American Liberty

John Moore

Generally the Negro troops acquitted themselves most creditably as soldiers. Stanton, Secretary of War, said of them at Petersburg: “The hardest fighting was done by the black troops. The parts they s..

Tyrants of Time

Milton Lesser

Dorlup puffed after him. "A little exercise will do me good. Ha-ha. Not as slim as I used to be. What would you say to five thousand century notes for the exclusive rights to your next assignment?"Ted..

The Captives of the Wilderness

Boynton Belknap

Viewed from the shore, not a sign of life would have been seen at first. Some invisible but skilful hand seemed to dip and sweep the long guiding oars and keep the boat in the channel. But a closer vi..

The Little Review, August 1915 (Vol. 2, No. 5)

Margaret C. Anderson

    The daughter listens. There is a selfish ring to it. But love must be forgiven for selfishness. In the schools and the churches the preliminaries of the struggle have been insi..

South Africa; vol I

Anthony Trollope

    That was what had just been done in the Transvaal when my idea of going to South Africa had ripened itself into a resolution. Clearly there was an additional reason for going. ..