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Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter DavisOration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter DavisThe death of Hon. Henry Winter Davis, for many years a distinguished Representative of one of the Baltimore congressional districts, created a deep sensation among those who had been associated with him in national legislation,...
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Les Origines et la Jeunesse de Lamartine 1790-1812Les Origines et la Jeunesse de Lamartine 1790-1812Lamartine est de tous les potes clbres celui qui se prte le moins une biographie exacte, une chronologie minutieuse, aux petits faits et aux anecdotes choisies. Son existence, large, simple, ngligemment trace, s'idalise distance et se compose...
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Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In GeneralCornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General If you knew how often I have thought of you as I was writing this book,if you knew how there rose before my mind memories of long agoof those glorious evenings with all...
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The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. HayesThe Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. HayesGeorge Hayes, of Scotland, came to America by the way of England, and settled at Windsor, in the Colony of Connecticut, in 1682. He married, in 1683, Abigail Dibble, who was born on Long...
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Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and CabinetRecollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet - An Autobiography. You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and...
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MemoirsMemoirsIt happened once in Boston, in the year 1861 or 1862, that I was at a dinner of the Atlantic Club, such as was held every Saturday, when the question was raised as to whether any man had ever written a complete and candid...
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Vie de Benjamin Franklin, écrite par lui-même - Tome 2Vie de Benjamin Franklin, écrite par lui-même - Tome 2 - suivie de ses œuvres morales, politiques et littérairesJ'ai reu depuis quelque temps, monsieur, votre dissertation sur la langue anglaise. C'est un excellent ouvrage, et qui sera trs-utile nos compatriotes en leur fesant sentir...
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The ViolinThe Violin - Its Famous Makers and Their ImitatorsThe favourable reception accorded to the previous editions of this work has not only added greatly to the pleasure attending the preparation of a new and revised edition, but has encouraged me to spare no effort...
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George WashingtonGeorge WashingtonThe twenty-second day of February is a national holiday in America because, as everybody knows, it is the anniversary of George Washington's birthday. All loyal Americans love and honor him, the greatest man in the history of the Republic. He was born in...
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Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and PatienceWoman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and PatienceA record of the personal services of our American women in the late Civil War, however painful to the modesty of those whom it brings conspicuously before the world, is due to...
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John ForsterJohn Forster - By One of His FriendsOne of the most robust, striking, and many-sided characters of his time was John Forster, a rough, uncompromising personage, who, from small and obscure beginnings, shouldered his way to the front until he came to be looked...
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MiltonMiltonFrancis Bacon, in one of his prose fragments, draws a memorable distinction between "arts mechanical" and "sciences of conceit." "In arts mechanical," he says, "the first device comes shortest, and time addeth and perfecteth. But in sciences of conceit the first author goeth farthest,...
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F. ChopinF. Chopinhopin! doux et harmonieux gnie! Quel est le cur auquel il fut cher, quelle est la personne laquelle il fut familier qui, en l'entendant nommer, n'prouve un tressaillement, comme au souvenir d'un tre suprieur qu'il eut la fortune de connatre? Mais, quelque regrett...
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The Romance of Old New England RooftreesThe Romance of Old New England RooftreesBoston L. C. Page & Company Mdcccciii Copyright, 1902 by L. C. Page & Company (Incorporated) All rights reserved Published, September, 1902 Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, Mass., U.S.A. These little...
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The Life and Adventures of Nat LoveThe Life and Adventures of Nat Love - Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"Having passed the half century mark in life's journey, and yielding to persistent requests of many old and valued friends of the past and present, I have decided...
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Bibliomania in the Middle AgesBibliomania in the Middle AgesThe labor of transcribing was held, in the monasteries, to be a full equivalent of manual labor in the field. The rule of St. Ferreol, written in the sixth century, says that, "He who does not turn up the earth...
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Fifteen Chapters of AutobiographyFifteen Chapters of AutobiographyThe wayfarer who crosses Lincoln's Inn Fields perceives in the midst of them a kind of wooden temple, and passes by it unmoved. But, if his curiosity tempts him to enter it, he sees, through an aperture in the boarded floor,...
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The Story of GarfieldThe Story of Garfield - Farm-boy, Soldier, and President Go to Liverpool or Glasgow, and embark on one of the great ocean steamers, which are constantly crossing the Atlantic. Sail westwards for about a week, and you will reach the eastern shores of the...
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Biographie des Sagamos illustres de l'Amérique Septentrionale (1848)Biographie des Sagamos illustres de l'Amérique Septentrionale (1848)Where our Chiefs of Old; where our heroes of mighty name? The fields of their battles are silent--scarce their mossy tombs remain! OSSIAK AMRIQUE, ainsi nomme d'Amerigo Vespucci. On la peint comme une femme au teint olivtre,...
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Souvenir of the George Borrow CelebrationSouvenir of the George Borrow Celebration - Norwich, July 5th, 1913The Committee are indebted to numerous Borrovians for the loan of Illustrations and Contributions of literary items to the text, to Miss C. M. Nichols, R.E., for her charming Pen Pictures of nooks and...
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