Biography & Autobiography
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, CompletePersonal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete"Man proposes and God disposes." There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined never to do so,...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — CompletePersonal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events...
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — CompleteMemoirs of General William T. Sherman — CompleteAnother ten years have passed since I ventured to publish my Memoirs, and, being once more at leisure, I have revised them in the light of the many criticisms public and private. My habit has been to...
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Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in OneMargot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in OneWhen I began this book I feared that its merit would depend upon how faithfully I could record my own impressions of people and events: when I had finished it I was certain of it. Had...
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The Life of Sir Richard BurtonThe Life of Sir Richard Burton Fifteen years have elapsed since the death of Sir Richard Burton and twelve since the appearance of the biography of Lady Burton. A deeply pathetic interest attaches itself to that book. Lady Burton was stricken down with an...
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LaperouseLaperouse All Sydney people, and most of those who have visited the city, have seen the tall monument to Laperouse overlooking Botany Bay. Many have perhaps read a little about him, and know the story of his surprising appearance in this harbour six days...
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An AutobiographyAn Autobiography Sitting down at the age of eighty-four to give an account of my life, I feel that it connects itself naturally with the growth and development of the province of South Australia, to which I came with my family in the year...
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Literary Friends and Acquaintance a Personal Retrospect of American AuthorshipLiterary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship Long before I began the papers which make up this volume, I had meant to write of literary history in New England as I had known it in the lives of its great exemplars...
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniThe Autobiography of Benvenuto CelliniThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — CompleteThe Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete Among the notable books of later timeswe may say, without exaggeration, of all timemust be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 12The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 12With this book begins the work of darkness, in which I have for the last eight years been enveloped, though it has not by any means been possible for me to penetrate the dreadful obscurity. In...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 11The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 11Although Eloisa, which for a long time had been in the press, did not yet, at the end of the year, 1760, appear, the work already began to make a great noise. Madam de Luxembourg had...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 10The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 10The extraordinary degree of strength a momentary effervescence had given me to quit the Hermitage, left me the moment I was out of it. I was scarcely established in my new habitation before I frequently suffered...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 09The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 09My impatience to inhabit the Hermitage not permitting me to wait until the return of fine weather, the moment my lodging was prepared I hastened to take possession of it, to the great amusement of the...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 08The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 08Having lived in the two most splendid houses in Paris, I had, notwithstanding my candor and modesty, made some acquaintance. Among others at Dupin's, that of the young hereditary prince of Saxe-Gotha, and of the Baron...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 07After two years' silence and patience, and notwithstanding my resolutions, I again take up my pen: Reader, suspend your judgment as to the reasons which force me to such a step: of these you can be...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 06The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 06I cannot add, 'auctius acque di melius fecere'; but no matter, the former is enough for my purpose; I had no occasion to have any property there, it was sufficient that I enjoyed it; for I...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 05The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 05It was, I believe, in 1732, that I arrived at Chambery, as already related, and began my employment of registering land for the king. I was almost twenty-one, my mind well enough formed for my age,...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 04The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 04Let any one judge my surprise and grief at not finding her on my arrival. I now felt regret at having abandoned M. le Maitre, and my uneasiness increased when I learned the misfortunes that had...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 03The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 03Leaving the service of Madam de Vercellis nearly as I had entered it, I returned to my former hostess, and remained there five or six weeks; during which time health, youth, and laziness, frequently rendered my...
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