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Musaicum Books presents to you a unique Christmas Collection, formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. This carefully edited edition includes the most beloved Christmas poems and carols: Contents: Silent Night The Three Kings Christmas Bells Christmas At Sea Angels from the Realms of Glory Christmas in the Olden Time Marmion: A Christmas Poem Old Santa Claus The Twelve Days of Christmas Minstrels Ring Out, Wild Bells Christmas In India Hymn On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity A Christmas Carol The Oxen A Christmas Ghost Story The Savior Must Have Been A Docile Gentleman 'Twas just this time, last year, I died The Magi The Mahogany Tree A Bell Christmas Carol The Mystic's Christmas Christmas Cheer Noel: Christmas Eve 1913 The Holly and the Ivy Adam lay ybounden Christmas Day Christmas Fancies Twas jolly, jolly Wat A Tale Of Christmas Eve Jest 'Fore Christmas A Christmas Folksong As with Gladness Men of Old Nativity a Christmas Boar's Head Carol Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus Coventry Carol Here We Come A-wassailing A Defective Santa Claus King Winter Christmas Gifts and Other Poems The Night After Christmas O Little Town of Bethlehem The Shepherds A Christmas Carol A Christmas Hymn Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen The Christmas Silence A Christmas Lullaby Hymn for the Nativity Masters in This Hall The Adoration of the Wise Men The Shepherds in Judea Christmas Carol Neighbors of the Christ Night Cradle Hymn An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour Christmas Song A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour The Shepherd's Song "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night" The Angels New Prince, New Pomp Wassailer's Song Sly Santa Claus The Waits God Bless Us Every One Bells Across the Snow Minstrels and Maids Song of the Holly Under the Holly-bough December The Christmas Holly So, Now Is Come Our Joyfulst Feast The Christmas Carol A Christmas Carmen Sery A Christmas Song The End of the Play Christ's Nativity Mark Well My Heavy, Doleful Tale The Glorious Song of Old A Christmas Carol for Children A Christmas Carol A Ballade of Old Loves Ballade of Christmas Ghosts Hang Up the Baby's Stocking A Christmas Prayer…
The Craig Poisoning Mystery (Musaicum Murder Mysteries)
Ronald Craig's death from arsenic poisoning riles up lot of feathers in a small country side with each person having a strong motif! Excerpt: "You say you're going up to town, Bob, as soon as you've left here. Anywhere near Pont Street? Good. Then do you mind wheeling that nearer to me?" The sick man waved a thin, but still brown hand, to where a little writing cabinet, shaped like a miniature roll-top desk, stood on a swing table. «Thanks,» he went on. «Just wait a minute, will you, while I write a note. If you'll drop it in Houghton's letter-box, or hand it in yourself, I shall be much obliged.» He hesitated. «Yourself,» he repeated. «It's most important, and I don't want to wait for the post.»
In Paradise (Musaicum Must Classics)
In Paradise is one of the best-known novels by the German writer and translator Paul Heyse first published in 1875. Excerpt: "On slender pedestals stood a multitude of figures, most of them of half life-size, such as are used for the decoration of Catholic churches, chapels and cemeteries. Some of them were just begun, some were almost finished works; and in all could be clearly recognized the hands of the pupils who had their execution in charge–sometimes more and sometimes less skillfully imitating the little original models, barely six inches high, that stood on small shelves beside the copies. While the latter were neatly cut in sandstone or in the cheaper marbles–and a few in wood, decorated with all manner of painting and gilding–the little models were in plaster, and spotted and nicked by constant use. Yet these doll-like little madonnas, saints and apostles, and praying and playing angels in their heavy draperies, had a certain odd and now and then almost caricatured life-likeness–so great that not all of its charm was lost, even in the dry copies made by the assistants. They had something of the same element of humor that Ariosto gives to his personages–which by no means lose in life or force because their author has lost his own simple faith in them."
The Roman Traitor: A True Tale of the Republic
The Roman Traitor is a historical novel set in the 1st century BC that features the turbulent political life of the Roman Republic. In the author's opinion, the conspiracy of Catiline was a theme particularly well adapted for the purpose, as being an actual event of vast importance, and in many respects unparalleled in history; as being partially familiar to everyone, thoroughly understood perhaps by no one and particularly interesting because of the dark and mysterious motives of the actors. "The gate was closed as silently as it had given him entrance; was barred and bolted; and till then no word was interchanged. When all, however, was secure, a deep rich voice, suppressed into a whisper, exclaimed «Sergius?» «Ay!» answered Cataline. «Come on!» and without farther parley they stole into the most secret chambers of the house, fearful as it appeared of the sounds of their own footsteps, much more of their own voices."
Free Grass (Musaicum Vintage Western)
Major Bob Gillette was the old school western rancher and the owner of the Circle G ranch from Menard County in Texas. His son Tom was a softer type and he was sent east to get education, but he always felt he will come home. When his father gets betrayed and killed by one of his man Tom takes control of the Circle G and swears he will get vengeance against his father's killer.
In Honour of the Nativity of our Lord (A Play)
A Mystery Play in Honour of the Nativity of our Lord is a dramatic work about the miracle of Christmas, with the goal of furthering the devotion to the Nativity of the Christ. The play is written in verse and it celebrates the birth of the Lord, telling of the miracle of the Nativity and revealing the Christmas mystery.
The Death Ship (Musaicum Adventure Classics)
Geoffrey Fenton is a second-rate officer who embarks on the ship called Saracen. On the high seas, they have an encounter with a brig who claims to have sighted the mythical ghost ship of the Flying Dutchman, cursed ship that can never reach land, condemned to sail forever and ever, bringing bad luck to any ship that crosses its path. This information starts haunting the captain of the Saracen due to the contagious bad luck that this may entail and it turns out to be right when Fenton suffers an accident. He gets rescued by the ghostly crew of the Flying Dutchmen and the infamous Captain Vanderdecken. His only mission becomes to escape from the Death Ship.
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding
This book analyzes the foundation of human knowledge and understanding. Locke describes the mind at birth as a blank slate (tabula rasa) filled later through experience. The essay was one of the principal sources of empiricism in modern philosophy, and influenced many enlightenment philosophers, such as David Hume and George Berkeley. Book I of the Essay is Locke's attempt to refute the rationalist notion of innate ideas. Book II sets out his theory of ideas, including his distinction between passively acquired simple ideas, such as «red», «sweet», «round», etc., and actively built complex ideas, such as numbers, causes and effects, abstract ideas, ideas of substances, identity, and diversity. Book III is concerned with language and Book IV with knowledge, including intuition, mathematics, moral philosophy, natural philosophy («science»), faith, and opinion.
History of the War in Afghanistan
History of the War in Afghanistan is a historical work on the First Anglo-Afghan War fought between the British East India Company and the Pashtun tribesmen from 1839 to 1842. The author, British military historian Sir John William Kaye, gathered stories and narratives from numerous soldiers and participants of the war, and took up on himself to collect their experiences in a three volume edition. The first volume serves mostly as an introduction and covers the period from 1800 to 1839, providing the insight in the Anglo-Afghan relations before the war. The second volume covers the war years from 1839 to 1841 when the British successfully intervened in a succession dispute between emir Dost Mohammad and former emir Shah Shujah, whom they installed upon conquering Kabul in August 1839. The main British Indian and Sikh force occupying Kabul along with their camp followers, having endured harsh winters as well, was almost completely annihilated while retreating in January 1842. Finally, the third volume covers the year 1842. The British sent an Army of Retribution to Kabul to avenge their defeat, and having demolished parts of the capital and recovered prisoners they left Afghanistan altogether by the end of the year. Dost Mohamed returned from exile in India to resume his rule and this war was known by the British as the Disaster in Afghanistan.
The Tavern Knight (Historical Novel)
Set in England during the time of Cromwell, The Tavern Knight follows a manly knight on his mission of vengeance. Crispin Galliard is a very skilled and famous soldier with a rough reputation, known in the army as the Tavern Knight because of his drunken and rowdy behavior. He carries a grudge against some people who ruined his life and stole his innocence, and he patiently awaits for an opportunity to extract his revenge. When he meets Kenneth, a young man with some useful ties, he starts making a plot to finally get a shot at vengeance after helping Charles II escape the forces of Oliver Cromwell.