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Reminiscences of a Private, Company "G", First Arkansas Regiment Infantry: May, 1861 to 1865Reminiscences of a Private, Company "G", First Arkansas Regiment Infantry: May, 1861 to 1865When our children come from other states and from foreign lands to visit Jacksonport, the old home of their parents, they find the pitiful remnant of a village. Streets overgrown with...
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Holmes' Own StoryHolmes' Own Story - In Which the Alleged Multi-murderer and Arch Conspirator Tells of the Twenty-two Tragic Deaths and Disappearances in Which He Is Said to Be Implicated, With Moyamensing Prison Diary AppendixThe following pages are written under peculiar circumstances, perhaps the most peculiar...
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Le Maréchal de Richelieu (1696-1788)Le Maréchal de Richelieu (1696-1788) - d'après les mémoires contemporains et des documents inéditsDans l'original imprim toutes les rfrences de l'Index aux pages VI-XXX sont errones, avec un dcalage systmatique de deux units entre l'index et la numrotation des pages. Pour remdier cette anomalie...
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Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 1 (of 2)Hans Holbein the Younger, Volume 1 (of 2) IN this book the writer has endeavoured to give as complete an account as possible of the life and career of the younger Holbein, together with a description of every known picture painted by him, and...
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Musiker-Biographien, 13. BandSchumannDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1891 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und heute nicht mehr gebruchliche Schreibweisen sowie Schreibvarianten bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert, sofern der Sinn des Texts dadurch nicht beeintrchtigt wird. Die...
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Ariel: A Shelley RomanceAriel: A Shelley RomanceIn the year 1809 George III appointed as Headmaster of Eton, Dr. Keate, a terrible little man who considered the flogging-block a necessary station on the road to perfection, and who ended a sermon on the Sixth Beatitude by saying, Now,...
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G. F. WattsG. F. WattsThe Photogravures are from photographs by Fredk. Hollyer. Permanent photographs of works of Watts, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Holbein, and of pictures in the Dublin and Hague Galleries can be obtained of Fredk. Hollyer, 9 Pembroke Square, Kensington. GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS was born on...
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How They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by ThemselvesHow They Succeeded: Life Stories of Successful Men Told by ThemselvesTHE GREAT INTEREST manifested in the life-stories of successful men and women, which have been published from time to time in the magazine Success, has actuated their production in book form. Many of these...
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Agnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke: An AppreciationAgnes Mary Clerke and Ellen Mary Clerke: An AppreciationLady Huggins in her original draft of the obituary notice of my sister Agnes, which appeared in the Astrophysical Journal, included some words of personal appreciation and of reference to her family which were omitted from...
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The Life of Jesus Critically ExaminedThe Life of Jesus Critically Examined - (4th ed.)Wherever a religion, resting upon written records, prolongs and extends the sphere of its dominion, accompanying its votaries through the varied and progressive stages of mental cultivation, a discrepancy between the representations of those ancient records,...
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The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and TravelThe American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel - Comprising Ancient and Modern History: the Biography of Eminent Men of Europe and America, and the Lives of Distinguished Travelers.Entered According to Act of Congress, in the Year 1855, by the OHIO STATE JOURNAL COMPANY,...
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A Group of Famous Women: stories of their livesA Group of Famous Women: stories of their livesThe advantages of biography as a means of education are obvious. History and biography go hand in hand, the latter giving vitality and reality to the former. Educators have for a long time appreciated this, and...
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All in the Day's Work: An AutobiographyAll in the Day's Work: An AutobiographyAll rights reservedno part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion...
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Mary Boyle, Her BookMary Boyle, Her BookI hope my readers, whether gentle or simple, will do me the favour to read this Preface, as I wish to explain a little, perhaps apologise a little, after the usual fashion of people who write their reminiscences. According to custom,...
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A Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy PrinceA Narrative of the Life and Travels of Mrs. Nancy PrinceAs my unprofitable life has been spared, and I have been, by the providence of God, wonderfully preserved, it is with gratitude to my Heavenly Father, and duty to myself, that I attempt to...
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Harlow Niles HiginbothamHarlow Niles Higinbotham - A memoir with brief autobiography and extracts from speeches and lettersHarlow Niles Higinbotham, represented, to a singular degree, the best citizenship of the second and third half-centuries of the Republic. Born on an Illinois farm October tenth, 1838; educated in...
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All in a Life-timeAll in a Life-timeCOPYRIGHT, 1921, 1922, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. First Edition TO MY DEVOTED COMPANION...
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Will Bradley, His Chap BookWill Bradley, His Chap Book - An account, in the words of the dean of American typographers, of his graphic arts adventures ...This is a difficult task. I agreed to write an introduction to Will Bradley, His Chap Book before I had seen the...
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Henry James at WorkHenry James at WorkI knew nothing of Henry James beyond the revelation of his novels and tales before the summer of 1907. Then, as I sat in a top-floor office near Whitehall one August morning, compiling a very full index to the Report of...
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A Garden of Girls Or, Famous Schoolgirls of Former DaysA Garden of Girls; Or, Famous Schoolgirls of Former DaysI offer this little book (which aims at a reconstruction as faithful and accurate as careful research could achieve, of the real school-life and education of real little girls in many ages, and in many...
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