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Go to page Reason For Discourse by Descartes, Rene If this Discourse appear too long to be read at once, it may be divided into six Parts: and, in the first, will be found various considerations touching the Sciences; in the second, the principal rules of the Method which the Author has discovered, in the third, certain of the rules of Morals which he has deduced from this Method; in the fourth, the reasonings by which he establishes the existence of God and of the Human Soul, which are the foundations of his Metaphysic; in the fifth, the order of the Physical questions which he has investigated, and, in particular, the explication of the motion of the heart and of some other difficulties pertaining to Medicine, as also the difference between the soul of man and that of the brutes; and, in the last, what the Author believes to be required in order to greater advancement in the investigation of Nature than has yet been made, with the reasons that have induced him to write.
Go to page The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Go to page The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle
Go to page Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman This done, the carpenter received orders to have the leg completed that night; and to provide all the fittings for it, independent of those pertaining to the distrusted one in use.
Go to page Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich
Go to page A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark All the customs, all the laws, all the details, pertaining to the student duel are quaint and naive.
Go to page The Lair of the White Worm by Stoker, Bram
Go to page The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate It was a fixed belief with Madame Lebrun that the conduct of the universe and all things pertaining thereto would have been manifestly of a more intelligent and higher order had not Monsieur Lebrun been removed to other spheres during the early years of their married life.
Go to page King Henry V by Shakespeare, William
Go to page Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Go to page Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
Go to page The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare, William
Go to page Typee by Melville, Herman Their light household occupations, together with the manufacture of tappa, the platting of mats, and the polishing of drinking-vessels, were the only employments pertaining to the women.
Go to page The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre He had one of those superb establishments pertaining to great fortunes, the like of which certain old men remembered to have seen in all their glory in the times of wasteful liberality of Henry III.
Go to page The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre What was the agony of the unfortunate Boxtel on seeing the windows of the new story set out with bulbs and seedlings of tulips for the border, and tulips in pots; in short, with everything pertaining to the pursuits of a tulip-monomaniac!
Go to page Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman But to all these her old antiquities, were added new and marvellous features, pertaining to the wild business that for more than half a century she had followed.
Go to page David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles I am in high repute for my accomplishment in all pertaining to the art, and am joined with eleven others in reporting the debates in Parliament for a Morning Newspaper.
Go to page Ivanhoe by Scott, Sir Walter uf, and your allies and accomplices whomsoever, to wit, that whereas you have, without cause given or feud declared, wrongfully and by mastery seized upon the person of our lord and master the said Cedric; also upon the person of a noble and freeborn damsel, the Lady Rowena of Hargottstandstede; also upon the person of a noble and freeborn man, Athelstane of Coningsburgh; also upon the persons of certain freeborn men, their cnichts; also upon certain serfs, their born bondsmen; also upon a certain Jew, named Isaac of York, together with his daughter, a Jewess, and certain horses and mules: Which noble persons, with their cnichts and slaves, and also with the horses and mules, Jew and Jewess beforesaid, were all in peace with his majesty, and travelling as liege subjects upon the king's highway; therefore we require and demand that the said noble persons, namely, Cedric of Rotherwood, Rowena of Hargottstandstede, Athelstane of Coningsburgh, with their servants, cnichts, and followers, also the horses and mules, Jew and Jewess aforesaid, together with all goods and chattels to them pertaining, be, within an hour after the delivery hereof, delivered to us, or to those whom we shall appoint to receive the same, and that untouched and unharmed in body and goods.
Go to page King Henry VIII by Shakespeare, William
Go to page Macbeth by Shakespeare, William
Go to page The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare, William
Go to page Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel Senor barber, or whatever you are, you must know that I belong to your profession too, and have had a licence to practise for more than twenty years, and I know the implements of the barber craft, every one of them, perfectly well; and I was likewise a soldier for some time in the days of my youth, and I know also what a helmet is, and a morion, and a headpiece with a visor, and other things pertaining to soldiering, I meant to say to soldiers' arms; and I say- saving better opinions and always with submission to sounder judgments -that this piece we have now before us, which this worthy gentleman has in his hands, not only is no barber's basin, but is as far from being one as white is from black, and truth from falsehood; I say, moreover, that this, although it is a helmet, is not a complete helmet.
Go to page The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore
Go to page Up From Slavery by Washington, Booker T. Campbell is a merchant and banker, and had had little experience in dealing with matters pertaining to education.
Go to page The Lost Continent by Burroughs, Edgar Rice Presently officers and slaves commenced to traverse the corridor on matters pertaining to their duties, and then came the emperor, scowling and wrathful.
Go to page A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington In the broad sense it includes everything pertaining to the author's spirit and point of view--almost everything which is here being discussed.
Go to page The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore
Go to page House Of Seven Gables by Hawthorne, Nathaniel Without appearing to differ, in any tangible way, from other people's clothes, there was yet a wide and rich gravity about them that must have been a characteristic of the wearer, since it could not be defined as pertaining either to the cut or material.
Go to page Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave by Douglass, Frederick It would afford me great pleasure indeed, as well as materially add to the interest of my nar- rative, were I at liberty to gratify a curiosity, which I know exists in the minds of many, by an accurate statement of all the facts pertaining to my most fortunate escape.
Go to page Othello, The Moor of Venice by Shakespeare, William
Go to page The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark That will chain him to the spot and compel him to look once more, and once again, after he has satisfied all curiosity and lost all interest concerning the other matters pertaining to the locality.
Go to page Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud
Go to page The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose Pertaining to Malthus and his doctrines.
Go to page Chance by Conrad, Joseph My temperament, in matters pertaining to solid land, is the temperament of leisurely movement, of deliberate gait.