Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
All animals with lungs have some sort of contrivance in the windpipe that is able to set the air in vibration as it is expelled or inhaled. Some have not only this means of making vocal sound, but have also power to vary the quality and intensity of it. Out of this second abil...
All animals with lungs have some sort of contrivance in the windpipe that is able to set the air in vibration as it is expelled or inhaled. Some have not only this means of maki...
2. Part 2We can hardly imagine any group of plants more interesting. There are over eight hundred varieties of curious and unexpected forms, bearing tubular or rotate flowers most varied...
3. Part 3Gleamed the red sun athwart the misty haze Which veiled the cold earth from its loving gaze, Feeble and sad as hope in sorrow's hour-- But for thy soul it still hath warmth and...
4. Part 4In the Iliad, at four of the critical points in the story a bird appears and shows the will of the gods to mortals. It is related that before the Greeks sailed to Troy, while th...