Henry Thomas: 190 books

There are three ways of regarding any account of past occurrences, whether delivered to us orally or recorded in writing.

L’ouvrage tout récent dont nous présentons la traduction au public français a un double intérêt, et d’abord celui d’être une excellente monographie de Hume. Par des citations bien choisies, par de nombreux emprunts à la correspondance ou aux écrits de son héros, M. Huxley a su donner...

Taken from the first published biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, this text takes a fascinating look at the life and works of the eminent English poet, illustrator, painter and translator.

Since Theodor Geisel published his first children's book in 1937 under the pseudonym Dr. Seuss, children and adults alike have been captivated by the charming and laconic tales of whimsical characters and imaginative worlds. But Dr. Seuss' stories are more than just catchy poems; they often wrestle...

This is an informative book of little known facts concerning U. S. involvement in the Middle East. The author examines the follow the money, international foreign policy of the United States and its allies. This chronological account presents a concise overview of government misinformation to further...

If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history would have quadrupled. Ike made everyone realize just how exposed and vulnerable the Houston-Galveston area is in the...

THE subject upon which I wish to address you to-night is the structure and origin of Coral and Coral Reefs. Under the head of “coral” there are included two very different things; one of them is that substance which I imagine a great number of us have champed when we were very much younger than we...

MR. DARWIN'S long-standing and well-earned scientific eminence probably renders him indifferent to that social notoriety which passes by the name of success; but if the calm spirit of the philosopher have not yet wholly superseded the ambition and the vanity of the carnal man within him, he must be well...

Forty years ago the position of scientific studies was not so firmly established as it is to-day, and a conflict was necessary to secure their general recognition. The forces of obscurantism and of free and easy dogmatism were arrayed against them; and, just as in former centuries astronomy, and in more...

MERCHANTS occasionally go through a wholesome, though troublesome and not always satisfactory, process which they term “taking stock. ” After all the excitement of speculation, the pleasure of gain, and the pain of loss, the trader makes up his mind to face facts and to learn the exact quantity and quality of his solid and reliable possessions.

IN the preceding five lectures I have endeavoured to give you an account of those facts, and of those reasonings from facts, which form the data upon which all theories regarding the causes of the phenomena of organic nature must be based. And, although I have had frequent occasion to quote Mr. Darwin—...

I DESIRE this evening to give you some account of the life and labours of a very noble Englishman— William Harvey.