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Alexandre HerculanoAlexandre HerculanoUm paladino illuminado e moo, intemerato no ardor da juventude e na exaltao da crena que nem o martyrio lograria dominar ou perverter, sonhou a redempo da patria desolada pelas guerras, pela fome, pela oppresso de tyrannias vidas e corruptas, por hypocrisias sordidas...
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The Brownings, Their Life and ArtThe Brownings, Their Life and ArtThe present volume was initiated in Florence, and, from its first inception, invested with the cordial assent and the sympathetic encouragement of Robert Barrett Browning. One never-to-be-forgotten day, all ethereal light and loveliness, has left its picture in memory,...
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Alexander the GreatAlexander the Great - Makers of HistoryThe history of the life of every individual who has, for any reason, attracted extensively the attention of mankind, has been written in a great variety of ways by a multitude of authors, and persons sometimes wonder why...
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Achter de schermenAchter de schermen Jos. J. Schrmann. Sarah Bernhardt. Mijn betrekkingen tot Gekroonde Hoofden Eleonora Duse. Andr Antoine. BEROEMDE TENORS. Gayarr. Tamagno. Ernesto Nicolini. Roberto Stagno. Angelo Massini. Enrico Caruso. Paoli. Jeanne Granier. Paderewski. Jan Kubelik. Christine Nilson. Felia Litvinne. Charles Lamoureux. Isadora Duncan. Suzanne...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 1Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 1WILL ADAMS was born in 1857, a slave of Dave Cavin, in Harrison Co., Texas. He remained with the Cavins until 1885, then...
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A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss AustenA Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen Not long ago, a party of friends were sitting at luncheon in a suburb of London, when one of them happened to make some reference to Maple Grove and Selina, and to...
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Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin - A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years AgoNext to George Washington, we must write, upon the Catalogue of American Patriots, the name of Benjamin Franklin. He had so many virtues that there is no need of...
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Modern AmericansModern Americans - A Biographical School Reader for the Upper GradesTell us about real folks. This is the request that comes to us again and again from children in the upper grades. In response to this appeal, the authors, in preparing Modern Americans, have...
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My Autobiography: A FragmentMy Autobiography: A FragmentFor some years past my father had, in the intervals of more serious work, occupied his leisure moments in jotting down reminiscences of his early life. In 1898 and 1899 he issued the two volumes of Auld Lang Syne, which contained...
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Ancient and Modern Celebrated FreethinkersAncient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers - Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." In these pages, appearing under the title of "Half-Hours with the Freethinkers," are collected in a readable form an abstract of the lives and doctrines of some of...
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Royal Children of English HistoryRoyal Children of English HistoryI hope you do not think anything so foolish, because, really, history is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the things that are happening here and now, and...
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Life of Henry Martyn, Missionary to India and Persia, 1781 to 1812Life of Henry Martyn, Missionary to India and Persia, 1781 to 1812I hold in my hand an album adorned with pictures of missionaries, my brethren and sisters, the ambassadors of the King. On one of the first pages is "the tomb of Henry Martyn,"...
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A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818Those among us interested in the young people, the boys and girls of our Churches, somewhat realize the lack of material wherewith to stimulate and nourish these young workers. The apiarist studies the nature of the...
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Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868Correspondance inédite de Hector Berlioz, 1819-1868Je suis vivement touch de la noble abngation qui vous porte refuser notre admirable requiem pour la crmonie des Invalides, veuillez tre convaincu de toute ma reconnaissance. Cependant, comme la dtermination de Monsieur le Ministre de l'intrieur est irrvocable,...
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Home University Library of Modern Knowledge, No. 77Shelley, Godwin and Their CircleThe history of the French Revolution in England begins with a sermon and ends with a poem. Between that famous discourse by Dr. Richard Price on the love of our country, delivered in the first excitement that followed the fall...
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InfernoInferno Det var med en knsla av vild gldje jag tervnde frn Nordbanans station, sedan jag dr avlmnat min lilla hustru, vilken skulle fara till vrt barn, som insjuknat i fjrran land. Fullbordat var allts offret av mitt hjrta! Vra avskedsord: Nr ses vi...
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BunyanBunyan'I was of a low and inconsiderable generation, my father's house being of that rank that is meanest and most despised of all families in the land.' 'I never went to school, to Aristotle or Plato, but was brought up in my father's house...
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A Mountain BoyhoodA Mountain Boyhood Father and mother settled on the Kansas prairie in the early fifties. At that time Kansas was the frontier. Near neighbors were twenty miles or more apart. There was no railroad; no stages supplied the vast unsettled region. A few supplies...
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Famous Scots Series, 15Sir Walter ScottTo the very probable remark that 'Another little book about Scott is not wanted,' I can at least reply that apparently it is, inasmuch as the publishers proposed this volume to me, not I to them. And I believe that, as a...
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Famous Scots Series, 10James BoswellThe literature of the Johnsonian period has assumed, in spite of the lexicographer's own dislike of that adjective, prodigious dimensions. After the critical labours of Malone, Murphy, Croker, J. B. Nichols, Macaulay, Carlyle, Rogers, Fitzgerald, Dr Hill and others, it may appear hazardous...
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