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A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy PrinceA Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy PrinceAs my unprofitable life has been spared, and I have been, by the providence of God, wonderfully preserved, it is with gratitude to my Heavenly Father, and duty to myself, that I attempt to...
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Harlow Niles HiginbothamHarlow Niles Higinbotham - A memoir with brief autobiography and extracts from speeches and lettersHarlow Niles Higinbotham, represented, to a singular degree, the best citizenship of the second and third half-centuries of the Republic. Born on an Illinois farm October tenth, 1838; educated in...
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All in a Life-timeAll in a Life-timeCOPYRIGHT, 1921, 1922, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. First Edition TO MY DEVOTED COMPANION...
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Will Bradley, His Chap BookWill Bradley, His Chap Book - An account, in the words of the dean of American typographers, of his graphic arts adventures ...This is a difficult task. I agreed to write an introduction to Will Bradley, His Chap Book before I had seen the...
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Henry James at WorkHenry James at WorkI knew nothing of Henry James beyond the revelation of his novels and tales before the summer of 1907. Then, as I sat in a top-floor office near Whitehall one August morning, compiling a very full index to the Report of...
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A Garden of Girls Or, Famous Schoolgirls of Former DaysA Garden of Girls; Or, Famous Schoolgirls of Former DaysI offer this little book (which aims at a reconstruction as faithful and accurate as careful research could achieve, of the real school-life and education of real little girls in many ages, and in many...
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The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time, 3rd Ed. Vol. 1The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time, 3rd Ed. Vol. 1The Work, which I now offer to the Public, I undertook some years since at Rome, and brought it down to the Pontificate of...
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Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric LifeIamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life - Accompanied by Fragments of the Ethical Writings of certain Pythagoreans in the Doric dialect; and a collection of Pythagoric Sentences from Stobaeus and others, which are omitted by Gale in his Opuscula Mythologica, and have not...
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I'd Like to Do It AgainI'd Like to Do It AgainAt the time of my mothers death some fifteen years ago, we found among her cherished possessions a soiled and tattered old manuscript written in a scrawling school-boy hand, and inscribed in her neat and graceful letteringOwens first play,...
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Biographical Notices of the Portraits at HinchingbrookBiographical Notices of the Portraits at HinchingbrookIn the notices of the more celebrated characters in this Catalogue, it will be understood that historical and well-known events (which will be found in the annals of England), have been made purposely, to give way to details...
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Men Who Have Made the EmpireMen Who Have Made the EmpireThe Epic of England has yet to be written. It may be that the fulness of time for writing it has not come yet, or it may be that Britain is still waiting for her Homer and her Virgil....
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A Book About MyselfA Book About MyselfDuring the year 1890 I had been formulating my first dim notion as to what it was I wanted to do in life. For two years and more I had been reading Eugene Fields Sharps and Flats, a column he wrote...
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Magyar alakokMagyar alakokSzchenyi Istvn irasztala fltt dszes aranykeretben fiatal n arczkpe fggtt a falon. Olajfestmny volt s gynyr szp, fiatal nfejet brzolt. Barna hajfrtk, mondulaalak nagy kt fekete szem, semmihez se hasonlthat mosoly, fny s bbj a homlokon, az ajkakon s a flsges arcznak minden...
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Early memories some chapters of autobiographyEarly memories; some chapters of autobiographyMy father died in New York on February 2nd, 1922, at the end of his eighty second year. He died after a few hours illness brought on, as it seemed, by a long walk in the cold of a...
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Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent FriendshipsMemories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships - Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. FieldsIn the years immediately before the death of Mrs. James T. Fields, on January 5, 1915, she spoke to me more than once of her...
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Exits and EntrancesExits and EntrancesI am sure it is excellent to have a motive, and if possible a good motive, for doing everything; and so before I begin I want to give my motive for attempting to write my memoirs of things and people, past and...
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American crisis biographiesJohn BrownAfter the work of Sanborn, Hinton, Connelley, and Redpath, the only excuse for another life of John Brown is an opportunity to lay new emphasis upon the material which they have so carefully collected, and to treat these facts from a different point...
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Die Geschichte meines LebensDie Geschichte meines LebensDoppelte Anfhrungszeichen wurden im Original in drei verschiedenen Varianten verwendet: so, so und so; je nach Zusammenhang. Diese Varianten wurden auch in der vorligenden elektronischen Version beibehalten. Funoten wurden an das Ende des jeweiligen Kapitels bzw. an das Ende des betreffenden...
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The Life of Hector Berlioz as Written by Himself in His Letters and MemoirsThe Life of Hector Berlioz as Written by Himself in His Letters and MemoirsAutobiography is open to the charge of egoism; somewhat unjustly since, in writing of oneself, the personal note must predominate and, in the case of a geniussure of his goal and...
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The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. VII. Being the Third of the Third VoyageThe Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. VII. Being the Third of the Third VoyageDESCRIPTION OF KARAKAKOOA BAY.VAST CONCOURSE OF THE NATIVES.POWER OF THE CHIEFS OVER THE INFERIOR PEOPLE.VISIT FROM KOAH, A PRIEST AND WARRIOR.THE MORAI AT KAKOOA DESCRIBED.CEREMONIES AT THE...
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