Biography & Autobiography
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The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. IThe Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. I In these Volumes is recounted the public life of my late father from the period to which the narrative was brought down by himself in his unfinished "Autobiography of a Seaman." The...
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Fifteen Years in Hell: An AutobiographyFifteen Years in Hell: An Autobiography The days of long prefaces are past. It is also too near the end of the century to indulge in fulsome dedications. I shall, therefore, trouble the reader with only a brief introduction to this imperfect history of...
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The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master MusiciansThe World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians The preparation of this volume began with a period of delightful research work in a great musical library. As a honey-bee flutters from flower to flower, culling sweetness from many blossoms, so the compiler...
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The Life of Jesus of Nazareth: A StudyThe Life of Jesus of Nazareth: A StudyThe aim of this book is to help thoughtful readers of the gospels to discern more clearly the features of him whom those writings inimitably portray. It is avowedly a study rather than a story, and as...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XII, Ohio NarrativesSlave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XII, Ohio Narratives"Life experience excels all reading. Every place you go, you learn something from every class of people. Books are just for a memory, to keep...
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James Fenimore CooperJames Fenimore CooperA life of Cooper, written with some particular reference to the picturesque village among the Otsego hills, where he so long lived and in whose soil he, for some sixty years or more, has slept, has long been needed. That such a...
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Speeches from the Dock; Or, Protests of Irish Patriotism. Part ISpeeches from the Dock; Or, Protests of Irish Patriotism. Part I - Speeches delivered after conviction by Theobald Wolfe Tone, William Orr, the brothers Sheares, Robert Emmet, John Martin, William Smith O'Brien, Thomas Francis Meagher, Terence Bellew McManus, John Mitchel, Thomas C. Luby, John...
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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume IIMemoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II * * * * * * * * * * "Quando Lo raggio della grazia, onde s'accende Verace amore, e che poi cresce amando, Multiplicato in t tanto risplende, Che ti conduce su per quella scala, U'...
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Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume IMemoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I * * * * * * * * * * "Wie leicht ward er dahin gefragen, Was war dem Glcklichen zu schwer! Wie tanzte vor des Lebens Wagen Die luftige Begleitung her! Die Liebe mit dem sssen...
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Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offencesLives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offencesThe clemency of the Law of England is so great that it does not take away the life of any subject whatever,...
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The Life of John RuskinThe Life of John RuskinThis book in its first form was written nearly twenty years ago with the intention of contributing a volume to a series of University Extension Manuals. For that purpose it included a sketch of Ruskin's "Work," with some attempt to...
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Reveries of a SchoolmasterReveries of a SchoolmasterI am rather glad now that I took a little dip (one could scarce call it a baptism) into the Latin, and especially into Horace, for that good soul gave me the expression in medias res. That is a forceful expression,...
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Daniel WebsterDaniel Webster[NOTE.In preparing this volume I have carefully examined all the literature contemporary and posthumous relating to Mr. Webster. I have not gone beyond the printed material, of which there is a vast mass, much of it of no value, but which contains all...
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George SandGeorge SandOn ne lit plus George Sand, nous dit-on. Soit; mais, ne ft-ce que pour l'honneur de la langue franaise, on reviendra, nous le croyons, sinon toute l'oeuvre, du moins une partie de cette oeuvre pure par le temps, trie avec soin par le...
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Sydney SmithSydney SmithIn writing this Study of Sydney Smith, I have been working in a harvest-field where a succession of diligent gleaners had preceded me. As soon as Sydney Smith died, his widow began to accumulate material for her husband's biography. She did not live...
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Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 The little toy dog is covered with dust But sturdy and stanch he stands, And the little toy soldier is red with rust And his musket moulds in his hands. Time was when...
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Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 1 Not as other memoirs are written would Eugene Field, were he alive, have this study of his life. He would think more of making it reflect the odd personality of the man than...
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The Dock and the ScaffoldThe Dock and the Scaffold - The Manchester Tragedy and the Cruise of the JacknellThe 23rd day of November, 1867, witnessed a strange and memorable scene in the great English city of Manchester. Long ere the grey winter's morning struggled in through the crisp...
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great ELBERT HUBBARD Elbert Hubbard is dead, or should we say, has gone on his last Little Journey to the Great Beyond. But...
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BurkeBurkeThe present writer published a study on Burke some twenty years ago. It was almost entirely critical, and in no sense a narrative. The volume that is now submitted to my readers first appeared in the series of English Men of Letters. It is...
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