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The Life and Works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., commonly called "Wright of Derby"The Life and Works of Joseph Wright, A.R.A., commonly called "Wright of Derby"THE name of Joseph Wright, of Derby, once of high repute among English Artists, has, during the last half-century and more, sunk, altogether undeservedly, into a state of semi-oblivion. The Exhibition at...
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The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth or, The Life and Deeds of Jay GouldThe Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth; or, The Life and Deeds of Jay GouldThe history of any man who had been able to distinguish himself by acquiring in his lifetime the greatest amount of wealth ever accumulated by one man, would necessarily...
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Du Bose Heyward: A Critical and Biographical SketchDu Bose Heyward: A Critical and Biographical Sketch There was a fashion amongst a certain school of critics and literati of former years to go about the country with dark lanterns ready to flash their microscopic spot lights upon this or that author, as...
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Trois hommes: Pascal, Ibsen, DostoïevskiTrois hommes: Pascal, Ibsen, Dostoïevski Voici l'homme, 1 volume grand in-8, de 450 pages, 1905. Images de la grandeur, 1 volume grand in-8, de 221 pages, 1901. Bouclier du Zodiaque, 1 volume grand in-8, de 151 pages, 1907. Lais et Snes, 1 volume grand...
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A Child of the OrientA Child of the OrientI accepted it, and caressed it. Its silky texture4 pleased my touch. Its heavenly blue colour fascinated my eyes, while the white cross, emblem of my religion as well as of my country, filled my childish heart with a noble...
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Marie Corelli: The Writer and the WomanMarie Corelli: The Writer and the WomanMiss Marie Corellis unique personality has aroused interest and curiosity among all classes of society, and we are aware that the present work will be diligently searched for intimate information regarding the subject of these pages. It behooves...
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Strength and How to Obtain ItStrength and How to Obtain ItIn writing this book I have taken it as a commonplace that everyoneman, woman, and childwants to be strong. Without strengthand by strength I mean health, vitality, and a general sense of physical well-beinglife is but a gloomy business....
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Our Irish Theatre: A chapter of autobiographyOur Irish Theatre: A chapter of autobiographyTo Richard Gregory.Little Grandson: When I go into the garden in the morning to find you a nectarine or tell you the names of flowers, Catalpa, Lovelies-bleeding, Balsam, Phlox, you ask me why I cannot stay but must...
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Colonel Sion S. Bass, 1827-1862Colonel Sion S. Bass, 1827-1862The members of this Board include the members of the Board of Trustees of the School City of Fort Wayne (with the same officers) together with the following citizens chosen from Allen County outside the corporate City of Fort Wayne:...
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The Langham series: an illustrated collection of art monographs, ed. by Selwyn Brinton [v.3]The Illustrators of MontmartreThere is no modern illustrator whose work has more completely won the admiration of his fellows of the brush, whatever their predilection in art, than Steinlen. Be the studio in Paris, in London, in Munich, be it even in Timbuctoo, from...
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On the Border with CrookOn the Border with CrookThere is an old saw in the army which teaches that you can never know a man until after having made a scout with him in bad weather. All the good qualities and bad in the human makeup force their...
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The Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless ChristiansThe Bloody Theatre, or Martyrs Mirror of the Defenseless Christians - who baptized only upon confession of faith, and who suffered and died for the testimony of Jesus, their savior, from the time of Christ to the year A.D. 1660This work comprises two books,...
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Vidas Ejemplares: Beethoven—Miguel Ángel—TolstoiVidas Ejemplares: Beethoven—Miguel Ángel—TolstoiPor ejemplo, ciertas reglas de acentuacin ortogrfica del castellano, cuando la presente edicin de esta obra fue publicada eran diferentes a las existentes cuando se realiz la transcripcin. Palabras como vio, fue, dio, por ejemplo, en esa poca llevaban acento ortogrfico....
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Bess of Hardwick and Her CircleBess of Hardwick and Her CircleThe orthodox may be affronted at two brief incursions into fiction which they will find in it. Let them skip these judiciously, magisterially. For my own part, I needed consolation at times for certain hard and bitter facts of...
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Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 2 (of 2)Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 2 (of 2)Character of Lord PeterboroughOf Lord MontagueMarriage of the Lady Mary Churchill with Lord MonthermerCharacter and success of her husbandThe violence of party spirit at this eraConduct of the...
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Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 1 (of 2)Memoirs of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and of the Court of Queen Anne Vol. 1 (of 2)Had the subject of this Memoir lived in the present day, copious accounts of the part which she performed in public life would have instantly been given to...
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Henry More Smith: The Mysterious StrangerHenry More Smith: The Mysterious StrangerSometime in the month of July, 1812, nearly a hundred years ago now, a well dressed, smooth spoken man, less than thirty years of age, made his appearance at Windsor, Nova Scotia. He was looking for employment, but gave...
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Brave British soldiers and the Victoria CrossBrave British soldiers and the Victoria Cross - a general account of the regiments and men of the British Army, and stories of the brave deeds which won the prize "for valour"The best set of Volumes for Prizes, Rewards, or Gifts to English Lads....
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Adventures in JournalismAdventures in JournalismThe adventure of journalism which has been mineas editor, reporter, and war correspondentis never a life of easy toil and seldom one of rich rewards. I would not recommend it to youth as a primrose path, nor to anyone who wishes to...
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General WauchopeGeneral Wauchope On the 11th day of December 1899, amid the rattle of rifles, the fierce booming of cannon, and the sharp bang of exploding shells, a British force of Scottish Highlanders found themselves suddenly confronted in the darkness of an early African morning...
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