The Practice &Science of Drawing - The Practice &Science of Drawing by HaroldSpeed
Excerpt: The best things in an artist's work are so much a matter of intuition, that there is much to be said for the point of view that would altogether discourage intellectual inquiry into artistic phenomena on the part of the artist. Intuitions are shy things and apt to disappear if looked into too closely. And there is undoubtedly a danger that too much knowledge and training may supplant the natural intuitive feeling of a student, leaving only a cold knowledge of the means of expression in its place. For the artist, if he has the right stuff in him, has a consciousness, in doing his best work, of something, as Ruskin has said, "not in him but through him." He has been, as it were, but the agent through which it has found expression.
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Etiquette Etiquette
by Emily Post
Excerpt:
Many who scoff at a book of etiquette would be shocked to hear the least expression of levity touching the Ten Commandments. But the Commandments do not always prevent such virtuous scoffers from dealings with their neighbor of which no gentleman could be capable and retain his claim to the title
Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats - Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats by Eliza Leslie
Excerpt:
The following Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, are original, and have been used by the author and many of her friends
with uniform success
Sermons to the Natural Man Sermons to the Natural Man
by William G. T. Shedd
Excerpt:
It is with a solemn feeling of responsibility that I send forth this volume of Sermons. The ordinary emotions of authorship have little place in the experience, when one remembers that what he says will be either a means of spiritual life, or an occasion of spiritual death
Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031) Christianity and Islam in Spain (756-1031)
by Charles Reginald Haines
Excerpt:
CHAPTER I. THE GOTHS IN SPAIN.
CHAPTER II. THE SARACENS IN SPAIN.
CHAPTER III. THE MARTYRDOMS AT CORDOVA.
CHAPTER IV. FANATICISM OF THE MARTYRS.
CHAPTER V. CONTROVERSY CONCERNING THE MARTYRS.
CHAPTER VI. THE MUZARABES.
CHAPTER VII
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for Part 2/2 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
Excerpt:
YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Part 2/2 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Excerpt:
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Grimm's Fairy Tales Grimm's Fairy Tales
BY THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Excerpt:
A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples. These apples were always counted, and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone
