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Biographies of Working MenBiographies of Working Men My acknowledgments are due to Dr. Smiless Lives of the Engineers, Life of the Stephensons, and Life of a Scotch Naturalist; to Lady Eastlakes Life of Gibson; to Mr. Holdens Life of Sir William Herschel; to M. Seusiers J. F....
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The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 - Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His TimeI. Inactivity of the Scottish AuxiliariesSpread of Independency and Multiplication of SectsVisitation of the University of Cambridge Battle of Marston MoorFortnight's Vacation of...
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great ReformersMy horse was very lame, and my head did ache exceedingly. Now what occurred I here avow is truthlet each man account for it as...
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The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life. Volume IIThe Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life. Volume IIWhen I nighted and day'd in Damascus town, Time sware such another he ne'er should view; And careless we slept under wing of night, Till dappled morn 'gan her smiles renew, And...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, CompleteThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete C. Suetonius Tranquillus was the son of a Roman knight who commanded a legion, on the side of Otho, at the battle which decided the fate of the empire in favour of Vitellius. From incidental notices in...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: DomitianThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12: DomitianI. Domitian was born upon the ninth of the calends of November [24th October] [795], when his father was consul elect, (being to enter upon his office the month following,) in the sixth region of the...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 11: TitusThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 11: TitusI. Titus, who had the same cognomen with his father, was the darling and delight of mankind; so much did the natural genius, address, or good fortune he possessed tend to conciliate the favour of all....
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: VespasianThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 10: VespasianI. The empire, which had been long thrown into a disturbed and unsetted state, by the rebellion and violent death of its three last rulers, was at length restored to peace and security by the Flavian...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: VitelliusThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 09: VitelliusI. Very different accounts are given of the origin of the Vitellian family. Some describe it as ancient and noble, others as recent and obscure, nay, extremely mean. I am inclined to think, that these several...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 08: OthoThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 08: OthoI. The ancestors of Otho were originally of the town of Ferentum, of an ancient and honourable family, and, indeed, one of the most considerable in Etruria. His grandfather, M. Salvius Otho (whose father was a...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 07: GalbaThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 07: GalbaI. The race of the Caesars became extinct in Nero; an event prognosticated by various signs, two of which were particularly significant. Formerly, when Livia, after her marriage with Augustus, was making a visit to her...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: NeroThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: NeroI. Two celebrated families, the Calvini and Aenobarbi, sprung from the race of the Domitii. The Aenobarbi derive both their extraction and their cognomen from one Lucius Domitius, of whom we have this tradition: As he...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 05: ClaudiusThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 05: ClaudiusI. Livia, having married Augustus when she was pregnant, was within three months afterwards delivered of Drusus, the father of Claudius Caesar, who had at first the praenomen of Decimus, but afterwards that of Nero; and...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: CaligulaThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: CaligulaI. Germanicus, the father of Caius Caesar, and son of Drusus and the younger Antonia, was, after his adoption by Tiberius, his uncle, preferred to the quaestorship [377] five years before he had attained the legal...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: TiberiusThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: TiberiusI. The patrician family of the Claudii (for there was a plebeian family of the same name, no way inferior to the other either in power or dignity) came originally from Regilli, a town of the...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: AugustusThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: AugustusI. That the family of the Octavii was of the first distinction in Velitrae [106], is rendered evident by many circumstances. For in the most frequented part of the town, there was, not long since, a...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius CaesarThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius CaesarC. Suetonius Tranquillus was the son of a Roman knight who commanded a legion, on the side of Otho, at the battle which decided the fate of the empire in favour of Vitellius. From incidental...
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The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New YorkThe Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New YorkA true story of a life I give you; not in its completion, for it is still unfinished. The romance of youth has lingered through all the later years and the tragedy...
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Fletcher of MadeleyFletcher of MadeleyThere is a great difference between a red-hot man and a Red-hot Library book We have no desire at all to pander to the common idea of our day that it does not matter what you belong to, by any of these...
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The Making of an AmericanThe Making of an AmericanThe papers which form this autobiography were originally published in The Outlook, the chapter telling of my going "home to mother" in The Churchman, and parts of one or two others in The Century Magazine. To those who have been...
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