The Art of War by Sun Tzu Translated by Lionel Giles Part I. LAYING PLANS 1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State. 2. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to...
Edwin Epps, of whom much will be said during the remainder of this history, is a large, portly, heavybodied man with light hair, high cheek bones, and a Roman nose of extraordinary dimensions. He has...
The RED DUST By Murray Leinster CHAPTER I Prey The sky grew gray and then almost white. The overhanging banks of clouds seemed to withdraw a little from the steaming earth. Haze that hung always among...
Chapter 24 24:1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age. And Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things. 24:2 And Abraham said unto his servant, the elder of his house, that ruled over all that...
Chapter II. WAGING WAR 1. Sun Tzu said: In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots, as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail-clad soldiers, with...
And it was in the night that Abram was born, that all the servants of Terah, and all the wise men of Nimrod, and his conjurors came and ate and drank in the house of Terah, and they rejoiced with him...
In July 1863 the community of New York City was made up of working class whites, Irish Americans, and African Americans all in constant competition for jobs and housing. Poor working conditions for...
Chapter I. The River Bank The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush...
WALDEN By Henry David Thoreau Chapter 1, Economy. LibriVox Part 5. One young man of my acquaintance, who has inherited some acres, told me that he thought he should live as I did, _if he had the...
Chapter V. Dulce Domum The sheep ran huddling together against the hurdles, blowing out thin nostrils and stamping with delicate fore-feet, their heads thrown back and a light steam rising from the...