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A Poor Man's HouseA Poor Man's House The substance of "A Poor Man's House" was first recorded in a journal, kept for purposes of fiction, and in letters to one of the friends to whom the book is dedicated. Fiction, however, showed itself an inappropriate medium. I...
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The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. IIThe Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II Lord Cochrane's Arrival in Greece.His Account of Hydra and Poros.The Congratulations offered to him.Visits from Tombazes, Mavrocordatos, and Miaoulis.Letters from the National Assembly and other Public Bodies and Leading Men.The Divisions in...
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Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. IMemoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. ICommencement of his Career.His Education.dash;Visit of the Duke of Gloucester to Guernsey.Decides for the Navy.Is put on the Solebay's books.School at London.Embarks in the Montreal.Winchelsea, Pembroke, Levant.Smyrna.Returns home.Passes for Lieutenant.Embarks in the Bristol.Proposal to leave...
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The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and KeplerThe Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and KeplerIn submitting this volume to the public under your Lordships auspices, I avail myself of the opportunity thus afforded me of expressing the deep sense which I entertain of the friendship and...
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My Recollections of Lord ByronMy Recollections of Lord ByronMany years ago a celebrated writer, in speaking of Lord Byron, who had then been dead some years, said that so much had already been written upon him that the subject had almost become commonplace, but was far from being...
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Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the GospelAutobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel - and Selections from his Writings By prescription, which often has the force of law, a book should have both a Preface and an Introduction: the first relating to the writer; the second to the...
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James Lane Allen: A Sketch of his Life and WorkJames Lane Allen: A Sketch of his Life and Work While "The Choir Invisible" was primarily a love story, the setting in which its action moved was historical. Apart from the masterly handling of human passion and the harmony of thought and expression with...
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Riverside Biographical Series, number 11Washington IrvingIrving's name stands as the first landmark in American letters. No other American writer has won the same sort of recognition abroad or esteem at home as became his early in life. And he has lost very little ground, so far as we...
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John the BaptistJohn the Baptist In the original book, each right-hand page had its own header. In this e-book, each chapter's headers have been collected into an introductory paragraph immediately following that chapter's introductory poem. (The left-hand pages' header was the chapter's title.) ABRAHAM: Or, The...
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The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, CompleteThe Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, CompleteSuch has been the rapidity of the demand for successive impressions of this book, that I have found it impossible, until now, to correct at pages 31, 87, and 97 three errors of statement made in the...
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Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 6: Harriet MartineauCritical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 6: Harriet MartineauIn 1850 Charlotte Bront paid a visit to Harriet Martineau at Ambleside, and she wrote to her friends various emphatic accounts of her hostess. 'Without adopting her theories,' Miss Bront said, 'I yet find a...
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Emily BrontëEmily BrontëThere are, perhaps, few tests of excellence so sure as the popular verdict on a work of art a hundred years after its accomplishment. So much time must be allowed for the swing and rebound of taste, for the despoiling of tawdry splendours...
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10)Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10) - Berna to Michelozzo MichelozziWhen first I undertook to write these Lives, it was not my intention to make a list of the craftsmen, and an inventory, so to speak, of...
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Souvenirs de la duchesse de DinoSouvenirs de la duchesse de Dino - publiés par sa petite fille, la Comtesse Jean de Castellane. Paris, le 12 juillet 1822. Il y a deux mois qu'un de mes amis, partant pour le Danemark et venant me dire adieu, entra assez inopinment dans...
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Ling Li Ji Guang灵历集光(1) (1934) ' ' Moore (2) (1934) (3) (1935) ' ''' '''' '' John Sung My Teacher ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 25716 Author: Song, Shangjie Release Date: Jun 7, 2008 Format: eBook Language: Chinese
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A Treasury of Heroes and HeroinesA Treasury of Heroes and Heroines - A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested...
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Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497During the last twenty years the patient researches of successive students in the archives of North Italian cities have been richly rewarded. The State papers of Milan and Venice, of Ferrara and Modena, have yielded up their treasures; the...
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Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief BiographiesDaughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief BiographiesDuring the first half of the nineteenth century, Miss Sedgwick would doubtless have been considered the queen of American letters, but, in the opinion of her friends, the beauty of her character surpassed the merit of...
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HoraceHorace Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the "old popular Horace" of Tennyson, petted and loved, by Frenchmen and Englishmen especially, above all the poets of antiquity, was born on 8th December, B.C. 65. He calls himself in his poems by the three names indifferently, but to...
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Mémoires de Mademoiselle Mars (volume II)Mémoires de Mademoiselle Mars (volume II) - (de la Comédie Française)Monvel en Sude.Douleur de madame Mars.Gustave III. Ulrique et Amlie.Le lecteur du roi.La nourrice.Le palais de Stockholm.Le portrait voil.Causerie royale.Fragments de correspondance de Monvel Dsaides.L'Opra sudois et le Thtre-Franais.Vie de Monvel Stockholm.Particularits sur Gustave...
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