Found 7,398 results for "Book burning"
by Robert Burns
On the 25th of January, 1759—in a clay cottage near the bridge of Doon, Ayrshire—was born Robert Burns, the great Poet o...
by Augustine of Hippo
"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;"5 "Great is our Lord and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite."...
by John Milton
This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
by Thomas Malory
KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu
"Whoever shadows my every move won't lose me in the dark" At least that's what Christ says, or what the Evangelist John...
by Adam Smith
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...
by Thomas More
THERE was recently a rather serious difference of opinion between that great expert in the art of government, His Invinc...
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-lo...
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were li...
by Carlo Collodi
There was once upon a time . . . "A king!" my little readers will instantly exclaim.
by Charles Dickens, Mary Sebag-Montefiore
THIRTY years ago, Marseilles lay burning in the sun, one day.
by William Wordsworth
Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
by Hermann Hesse
I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.