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Project Gutenberg's Moonbeams From the
Larger Lunacy by Stephen Leacock #4 in
our series by Stephen Leacock.
Copyright laws are changing all over the
world, be sure to check the ... listening to the throbbing of
the propeller (a rare sound which neither
of them of course had ever heard before),
de Vere felt that he must speak to h...
... neglect the special character of the
elements; simply retaining their distinguishability and taking into account only
the relations to one another in which they are place d by the order-setting trans-
formation ... L),
then by (45) A
3
L, and since L is a chain, by (41) the same thing is true of
K; since further A
3
K (9), therefore by (47)
A
0
3
K.
On the other hand,...
... CHOOSE OUR HYPOTHESES 17
They are the laws of the normal working of the brain machinery.
The angel (or imaginary messenger) suggests to you the one among possi-
ble working hypotheses on which your ... the
individual works in the collection are in the public domain in the
United States. If an individual work is in the public domain in the
United States and yo...
... an
unmanly one. There is no use lamenting
the spacious days of long ago. Wishing for
them will not bring them back. Our
problem is to put the principles of
courtesy into practice even in this hurried
and ... he thinks and feels
will color and probably dominate the
ideas and the ideals of the rest of the
country. Numbers of our magazines—and
they are as good an index as we ha...
... forehead, his
strong, wrinkled face stern from the
cheek-bones down, but twinkling
from that line upward, the twinkle,
which had its seat about the shrewd
eyes, suddenly terminating in a
sharp, whimsical, ... shorter than
Bobby and four inches broader across
the shoulders, and his neck spread
out over all the top of his torso; but
there was something in the clear gaze
of...
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CHAPTER
VI
CHAPTER
VII
CHAPTER
VIII
CHAPTER
IX
CHAPTER
XI
CHAPTER
XII
CHAPTER
XIII
CHAPTER
XIV
CHAPTER
XVI
CHAPTER
XVII
CHAPTER
XVIII
CHAPTER
XIX
CHAPTER
XXI
CHAPTER
XXII
CHAPTER
XXIII
CHAPTER
XXIV
CHAPTER
XXVI
CHAPTER
XXVII
cylinders, and showing, in a pattern
diminishing toward the top, the same label
borne by the casks and ba...
... Cadets."—Publishers
The first term at school was followed by
an exciting trip on the ocean, and then
another trip into the jungles of Africa,
where the boys went looking for their
parent. Then came a journey ... listened. From the top of the hill they
had left but a moment before, came the
sounds of an approaching automobile. An
instant later the rays of the headlig...
... and
resented it by scampering all over the
place, scratching and poking, and
squeaking and screeching, and
caterwauling and squalling, and flying into
the faces, and running under the petticoats
of the people, ... sun-dial,
and twenty-four cabbages. The buildings
themselves are so precisely alike, that one
can in no manner be distinguished from the
other. Owing to the vast...
... with the third of the Seleucidæ,
and run on for many centuries, the
inscriptions showing that the Greek
characters were used in the provinces of
Cabul and the Punjab even so late as the
fourth ... each
other as early as the fourth century B.C.,
and from the speech of Demosthenes
considerable time at Babylon, and was
taught the lore of the Magi.
In the famous sati...
... surface. Other
glands terminate under the skin in the hair
follicles, which follicles or hair sockets
contain or enclose the hair roots. These
glands terminating in the hair follicles
secrete ... layer or skin
called the rete mucosum, forming the
epidermis; (third) papillary layer; (fourth)
the corium layer, forming the dermis. The
peculiar, globular, cellular masses bel...