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The Court of the Empress JosephineThe Court of the Empress Josephine"Two-thirds of my life is passed, why should I so distress myself about what remains? The most brilliant fortune does not deserve all the trouble I take, the pettiness I detect in myself, or the humiliations and shame I...
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The Lives of the English PoetsLives of the Poets, Volume 1Such was the simple and unpretending advertisement that announced the Lives of the English Poets; a work that gave to the British nation a new style of biography. Johnson's decided taste for this species of writing, and his familiarity...
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Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by HerselfMrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, - With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire The author of these memoirs, Mary Robinson, was one of the most prominent and eminently beautiful women of her day. From the description she furnishes of her...
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A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2The few recollections of William Forster that I have put together in the preceding volume lead naturally, perhaps, to some account of my friendship and working relations at this time with Forster's most formidable critic in the political press--Mr....
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A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us?--the one...
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Les grandes journees de la ConstituanteLes grandes journées de la ConstituanteLe 17 juin, ayant termin depuis deux jours l'appel nominal de tous les dputs aux tats gnraux, le Tiers, auquel s'taient dj runis 12 curs, se proclamait Assemble nationale, et, prvoyant que cet acte rvolutionnaire serait suivi de reprsailles,...
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Santo Domingo: A Country with a FutureSanto Domingo: A Country with a FutureIt is remarkable how little has been written about the Dominican Republic, a country so near to our shores, which has for years had intimate commercial and political relations with our country, which is at present under the...
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Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.LMemoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. - In Two Volumes. Volume II. 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...
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JosephusJosephusJosephus hardly merits a place on his own account in a series of Jewish Worthies, since neither as man of action nor as man of letters did he deserve particularly well of his nation. It is not his personal worthiness, but the worth of...
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In the ValleyIn the ValleyWhen, after years of preparation, the pleasant task of writing this tale was begun, I had my chief delight in the hope that the completed book would gratify a venerable friend, to whose inspiration my first idea of the work was due,...
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Woodstock or, the CavalierWoodstock; or, the Cavalier It is not my purpose to inform my readers how the manuscripts of that eminent antiquary, the Rev. J. A. ROCHECLIFFE, D.D., came into my possession. There are many ways in which such things happen, and it is enough to...
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Thomas CarlyleThomas CarlyleThe following record of the leading events of Carlyle's life and attempt to estimate his genius rely on frequently renewed study of his work, on slight personal impressions"vidi tantum"and on information supplied by previous narrators. Of these the great author's chosen literary legatee...
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Female Scripture Biography, Volume IIFemale Scripture Biography, Volume II - Including an Essay on What Christianity Has Done for WomenSuch was the congratulatory language in which the commissioned angel addressed the virgin of Nazareth, when about to announce the intention of Heaven, that she should become the mother...
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Female Scripture Biography, Volume IFemale Scripture Biography, Volume INotwithstanding the variety of theological publications of a devotional class, which are perpetually issuing from the press, the author concurs in the opinion of those who think they can scarcely be too numerous. It may reasonably be hoped, that in...
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A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early PrincipateA History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early PrincipateThis work will be comprised in six volumes. According to the plan which I have provisionally laid down, the second volume will cover the period from 104 to 70 B.C., ending with the first...
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Fair MargaretFair Margaret It was a spring afternoon in the sixth year of the reign of King Henry VII. of England. There had been a great show in London, for that day his Grace opened the newly convened Parliament, and announced to his faithful peoplewho...
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Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book VLeila or, the Siege of Granada, Book V.The day slowly dawned upon that awful night; and the Moors, still upon the battlements of Granada, beheld the whole army of Ferdinand on its march towards their wails. At a distance lay the wrecks of the...
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Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book IVLeila or, the Siege of Granada, Book IV.The calmer contemplations and more holy anxieties of Leila were, at length, broken in upon by intelligence, the fearful interest of which absorbed the whole mind and care of every inhabitant of the castle. Boabdil el Chico...
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Leila or, the Siege of Granada, CompleteLeila or, the Siege of Granada, Complete It was the summer of the year 1491, and the armies of Ferdinand and Isabel invested the city of Granada. The night was not far advanced; and the moon, which broke through the transparent air of Andalusia,...
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Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book IILeila or, the Siege of Granada, Book II.Our narrative now summons us to the Christian army, and to the tent in which the Spanish king held nocturnal counsel with some of his more confidential warriors and advisers. Ferdinand had taken the field with all...
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