“A half-century spent in rubbing shoulders with the Cheyennes… forbids me to think of them except as acquaintances, comrades, and friends. ...

“Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float between vice and virtue.” ...

Biographer E.V. Lucas deemed him the most lovable figure in English literature, but British poet, playwright, and essayist CHARLES LAMB (1774-1834) was ...

In Mazzaroth; or The constellations, originally published in 1862, 19th-century English linguist and scholar FRANCES ROLLESTON (1781-1864) presents readers ...

A magic square consists of a series of numbers so arranged in a square that the sum of each row and column and of both the corner diagonals shall be the ...

Whist was a wildly popular card game in the late 19th century--so popular that it was almost one's social duty to become an accomplished Whist player. ...

Lethbury, surveying his wife across the dinner table, found his transient glance arrested by an indefinable change in her appearance. "How smart you look! ...

As an intellectual giant of the 19th century, Thomas Henry Huxley was a pioneering genius whose influence was felt throughout the worlds of science, education ...