Classicly Books
The Perilous Seat
Caroline Dale SnedekerThe background and details of this story have been carefully authenticated. The founding of the colony Inessa, however, is not an actual event. It is the union of a number of colony traditions. It is ..
The Young Continentals at Monmouth
John T. McIntyreThis book tells the story of Ben Cooper at Princeton and in the dark period of Brandywine and Valley Forge, and ends with the victory at Monmouth, when Washington overcame not only his open enemies, b..
Cottage scenes during the cholera
William Isaac CoppardWhen we recollect the scenes at Bilston, Sedgly, Plymouth, and other populous districts, where the epidemic spread among thousands, it is evident that the labour and exertion of those whose duty calle..
Life Among the Butterflies
Vance RandolphThe body of a butterfly, like that of any other insect, is divided by constrictions into three parts: the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. The head carries the eyes, antennae, and mouth parts; the t..
Lives of Two Cats
Pierre LotiExtremely careful of her little person, always neat, correct, aristocratic, even to the ends of her toes, she was haughtily disdainful of other cats, and conducted herself as if ill bred if any neighb..
Making Good for Muley
W. C. TuttleMuley throws his coat over the cage, and slams the whole works into the house. He follers it inside, and I sets there for a while thinking things over. The slats on Amelia’s home ain’t none too secure..
The Character and Happiness of Them That Die in the Lord
William DealtryThe connexion of this passage with the description of those turbulent times, to which the vision more immediately refers, would perhaps justify the application of it, in the first instance, to those w..
An Anatomical Disquisition on the Motion of the Heart & Blood in Animals
William HarveyThe discovery made by Harvey was this: That the blood passed from the heart into the arteries, thence to the veins, by which it was brought back to the heart again; that the blood moved more or less i..