Biography & Autobiography
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Jewish PortraitsJewish PortraitsThe papers which form this volume have already appeared in the pages of Good Words, Macmillans Magazine, The National Review, and The Spectator, and are reprinted with the very kindly given permission of the editors. The Frontispiece is reproduced through the kindness of...
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Cleopatra: A StudyCleopatra: A StudyNous venons de recevoir votre chque, et nous vous envoyons en change, par la prsente lettre, tant en notre nom quau nom de lauteur, lautorisation exclusive de publier aux Etats-Unis, une traduction de ltude de Mr. Henry Houssaye sur Cloptre. Nous saisissons...
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Cabezas: Pensadores y Artistas, PolíticosCabezas: Pensadores y Artistas, Políticos - Obras Completas Vol. XXIINota del Transcriptor: Se ha respetado la ortografa y la acentuacin del original. Errores obvios de imprenta han sido corregidos. Pginas en blanco han sido eliminadas. La portada fue diseada por el transcriptor y se...
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Signers of the DeclarationSigners of the Declaration - Historic Places Commemorating the Signing of the Declaration of IndependenceNearly two hundred years have passed since America proclaimed her independence. Yet this action and the beliefs and hopes motivating those responsible for it are as central to us as...
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A Colored Man Round the WorldA Colored Man Round the WorldThe Author of this book, though a quadroon, is pleased to announce himself the Colored man around the world. Not because he may look at a colored mans position as an honorable one at this age of the world,...
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Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and DiaryLucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and DiaryIt was the purpose of Miss Larcom to write a sequel to her hook, A New England Girlhood, in which she intended to give some account of her life in the log-cabins on the Western prairies as a pioneer...
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Künstler-Monographien: VDürerDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1897 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und altertmliche Schreibweisen, sowie regionale Ausdrcke, insbesondere in Zitaten aus Drers Zeit, bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert; fremdsprachliche Zitate wurden nicht korrigiert. Passagen...
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William Hamilton Gibson: artist—naturalist—authorWilliam Hamilton Gibson: artist—naturalist—authorTHREE men have done more than any others to inspire our generation with the love of nature. They are Henry D. Thoreau, John Burroughs, and William Hamilton Gibson. Thoreau, when the generation was young, challenged it to come out of doors,...
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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 4 (of 7)The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 4 (of 7)Engraved by J. Mollison.DAGUESSEAU.(From am original Picture by Mignardi in thepossession of the Conntesa Segur.)Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.London. Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street, & Pall Mall...
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Presiding Ladies of the White HousePresiding Ladies of the White House - containing biographical appreciations together with a short history of the Executive mansion and a treatise on its etiquette and customsAmerica stands to-day among the greatest and most progressive of the nations of the earth; and as the...
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Lord PalmerstonLord PalmerstonIN looking for material on which to base this short memoir of Lord Palmerston I have of course taken, as my guide to his general life, the biography of Mr. Evelyn Ashley.[A] I have also referred to the unfinished volumes by Lord Dalling,...
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Life of Robert Stevenson, Civil EngineerLife of Robert Stevenson, Civil EngineerThe addresses made to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Institution of Civil Engineers, at the opening meetings of the session1851, contained obituary notices of Robert Stevenson. The late Alan Stevenson, his eldest son, also wrote a short...
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The Historical Christ;The Historical Christ; - Or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. SmithThis little volume was written in the spring of the year 1913, and is intended as a plea for moderation and good...
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My Memory of GladstoneMy Memory of GladstoneSince the appearance of the first volumes of Macaulays History there has not been such an event in the publishing world as the appearance of a Life of Gladstone by Mr. Morley. Nor has public expectation been disappointed. Though I saw...
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In the WorldIn the WorldI went out into the world as "shop-boy" at a fashionable boot-shop in the main street of the town. My master was a small, round man. He had a brown, rugged face, green teeth, and watery, mud-colored eyes. At first I thought...
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Francis ParkmanFrancis Parkman. "One of the convincing tests of genius is the choice of a theme, and no greater felicity can befall it than to find one both familiar and fresh. All the better if tradition, however attenuated, have made it already friendly with our...
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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 6 (of 7)The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 6 (of 7)Very little is known concerning the youth of Sir Walter Raleigh. He was a younger son, descended of an ancient family, and was born at a farm called Hayes, near the mouth of the river...
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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 5 (of 7)The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 5 (of 7)Engraved by W. Holl.JEREMY TAYLOR.From the original Picture in the Hall of All Souls College, Oxford.Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street. If this...
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Boys Who Became Famous MenBoys Who Became Famous Men - Stories of the Childhood of Poets, Artists, and MusiciansOne summer morning, long ago, a small boy guarded his father's sheep on a hillside in the Apennines. Up and down the stony pasture he trod, driving back the lambs...
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Society as I Have Found ItSociety as I Have Found It{30} {31} After my marriage I took up my residence in Newport, buying a farm on Narragansett Bay and turning farmer in good earnest. I planted out 10,000 trees on that farm and then went to Europe to let...
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