Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk YEAST: A PROBLEM PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION This book was written nearly twelve years ago; and so many things have changed since then, that it is hardly fair to send it into the world afresh, without some notice of the improvement–if such there be–which has taken place meanwhile
Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. WESTWARD HO! by Charles Kingsley TO THE RAJAH SIR JAMES BROOKE, K.C.B. AND GEORGE AUGUSTUS SELWYN, D.D. BISHOP OF NEW ZEALAND THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED By one who (unknown to them) has no other method of expressing his admiration and reverence for thei
Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles KingsleyA Novel
Produced by Carol David and PG Distributed Proofreaders TWO YEARS AGO TWO YEARS AGO BY CHARLES KINGSLEY IN TWO VOLS.–VOL. II 1901 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. CHAP XV THE CRUISE OF THE WATERWITCH XVI COME AT LAST XVII BAALZEBUB’S BANQUET XVIII THE BLACK HOUND XIX BEDDGELERT
Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles KingsleyA Novel
Produced by Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. TWO YEARS AGO TWO YEARS AGO BY CHARLES KINGSLEY IN TWO VOLS.–VOL. I 1901 CONTENTS OF VOL.I. CHAP INTRODUCTORY I POETRY AND PROSE II STILL LIFE III ANYTHING BUT STILL LIFE IV FLOTSOM, JETSOM,
Town Geology by Charles Kingsley
Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk TOWN GEOLOGY PREFACE This little book, including the greater part of this Preface, has shaped itself out of lectures given to the young men of the city of Chester. But it does not deal, in its present form, with the geology of the neighbourhood of Chester only. I have
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Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk TOWN AND COUNTRY SERMONS SERMON I. HOW TO KEEP PASSION WEEK (Preached before the Queen.) Philippians ii. 5-11. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself
The Water-Babies by Charles KingsleyA Fairy Tale for a Land Baby
CHAPTER I “I heard a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sate reclined; In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind. “To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think, What man has made of
The Saint’s Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE SAINT’S TRAGEDY PREFACE BY THE REV. F. D. MAURICE, M.A. (1848) The writer of this play does not differ with his countrymen generally, as to the nature and requirements of a Drama. He has learnt from our Great Masters that it should exhibit human beings engaged in some
The Heroes by Charles Kingsley
Transcribed from the 1889 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk THE HEROES, OR GREEK FAIRY TALES FOR MY CHILDREN Contents: Preface Perseus How Perseus and his mother came to Seriphos How Perseus vowed a Rash Vow How Perseus slew the Gorgon How Perseus came to the AEthiops How Perseus came home again
The Gospel of the Pentateuch by Charles Kingsley
Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk The Gospel of the Pentateuch: A set of Parish Sermons PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION OF THE GOSPEL OF THE PENTATEUCH TO THE REV. CANON STANLEY. My Dear Stanley, I dedicate these Sermons to you, not that I may make you responsible for any doctrine or statement contained in
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THE ANCIEN REGIME by Charles Kingsley PREFACE The rules of the Royal Institution forbid (and wisely) religious or political controversy. It was therefore impossible for me in these Lectures, to say much which had to be said, in drawing a just and complete picture of the Ancien Regime in France. The passages inserted between brackets,
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This etext was produced from the 1890 Macmillan and Co. “Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays” edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk SIR WALTER RALEIGH AND HIS TIME {1} by Charles Kingsley ‘Truth is stranger than fiction.’ A trite remark. We all say it again and again: but how few of us believe it!