Biography & Autobiography
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The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time, 3rd Ed. Vol. 1The History of the Popes: From the Foundation of the See of Rome, to the Present Time, 3rd Ed. Vol. 1The Work, which I now offer to the Public, I undertook some years since at Rome, and brought it down to the Pontificate of...
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Iamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric LifeIamblichus' Life of Pythagoras, or Pythagoric Life - Accompanied by Fragments of the Ethical Writings of certain Pythagoreans in the Doric dialect; and a collection of Pythagoric Sentences from Stobaeus and others, which are omitted by Gale in his Opuscula Mythologica, and have not...
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I'd Like to Do It AgainI'd Like to Do It AgainAt the time of my mothers death some fifteen years ago, we found among her cherished possessions a soiled and tattered old manuscript written in a scrawling school-boy hand, and inscribed in her neat and graceful letteringOwens first play,...
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Biographical Notices of the Portraits at HinchingbrookBiographical Notices of the Portraits at HinchingbrookIn the notices of the more celebrated characters in this Catalogue, it will be understood that historical and well-known events (which will be found in the annals of England), have been made purposely, to give way to details...
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Men Who Have Made the EmpireMen Who Have Made the EmpireThe Epic of England has yet to be written. It may be that the fulness of time for writing it has not come yet, or it may be that Britain is still waiting for her Homer and her Virgil....
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A Book About MyselfA Book About MyselfDuring the year 1890 I had been formulating my first dim notion as to what it was I wanted to do in life. For two years and more I had been reading Eugene Fields Sharps and Flats, a column he wrote...
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Magyar alakokMagyar alakokSzchenyi Istvn irasztala fltt dszes aranykeretben fiatal n arczkpe fggtt a falon. Olajfestmny volt s gynyr szp, fiatal nfejet brzolt. Barna hajfrtk, mondulaalak nagy kt fekete szem, semmihez se hasonlthat mosoly, fny s bbj a homlokon, az ajkakon s a flsges arcznak minden...
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Early memories some chapters of autobiographyEarly memories; some chapters of autobiographyMy father died in New York on February 2nd, 1922, at the end of his eighty second year. He died after a few hours illness brought on, as it seemed, by a long walk in the cold of a...
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Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent FriendshipsMemories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships - Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. FieldsIn the years immediately before the death of Mrs. James T. Fields, on January 5, 1915, she spoke to me more than once of her...
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Exits and EntrancesExits and EntrancesI am sure it is excellent to have a motive, and if possible a good motive, for doing everything; and so before I begin I want to give my motive for attempting to write my memoirs of things and people, past and...
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American crisis biographiesJohn BrownAfter the work of Sanborn, Hinton, Connelley, and Redpath, the only excuse for another life of John Brown is an opportunity to lay new emphasis upon the material which they have so carefully collected, and to treat these facts from a different point...
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Die Geschichte meines LebensDie Geschichte meines LebensDoppelte Anfhrungszeichen wurden im Original in drei verschiedenen Varianten verwendet: so, so und so; je nach Zusammenhang. Diese Varianten wurden auch in der vorligenden elektronischen Version beibehalten. Funoten wurden an das Ende des jeweiligen Kapitels bzw. an das Ende des betreffenden...
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The Life of Hector Berlioz as Written by Himself in His Letters and MemoirsThe Life of Hector Berlioz as Written by Himself in His Letters and MemoirsAutobiography is open to the charge of egoism; somewhat unjustly since, in writing of oneself, the personal note must predominate and, in the case of a geniussure of his goal and...
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The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. VII. Being the Third of the Third VoyageThe Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. VII. Being the Third of the Third VoyageDESCRIPTION OF KARAKAKOOA BAY.VAST CONCOURSE OF THE NATIVES.POWER OF THE CHIEFS OVER THE INFERIOR PEOPLE.VISIT FROM KOAH, A PRIEST AND WARRIOR.THE MORAI AT KAKOOA DESCRIBED.CEREMONIES AT THE...
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Shakspeare and His TimesShakspeare and His Times The Essay on the Life and Works of Shakspeare, which I reprint in the present volume, appeared for the first time as an Introduction to the French edition of Shakspeare's complete works, which was published at Paris in 1821. This...
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Les condamnés politiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie: Récit de deux évadésLes condamnés politiques en Nouvelle-Calédonie: Récit de deux évadésA la fin de mai 1871, aprs l'crasement de la Rvolution de Paris, quand l'arme de Versailles fut lasse de huit jours de massacre, quarante ou cinquante mille prisonniers restaient encore entre ses mains. Entasss dans...
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Wellington's Men: Some Soldier AutobiographiesWellington's Men: Some Soldier AutobiographiesThis volume is an attempt to rescue from undeserved oblivion a cluster of soldierly autobiographies; and to give to the general reader some pictures of famous battles, not as described by the historian or analysed by the philosopher, but as...
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The Life of Col. James GardinerThe Life of Col. James GardinerThe Colonels mother was a lady of very excellent character; but it pleased God to exercise her with uncommon trials; for she lost not only her husband and her brother in the service of their country, but also her...
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The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. VI. Being the Second of the Third VoyageThe Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. VI. Being the Second of the Third VoyageAN ECLIPSE OF THE MOON OBSERVED.THE ISLAND TOOBOUAI DISCOVERED.ITS SITUATION, EXTENT, AND APPEARANCE.INTERCOURSE WITH ITS INHABITANTS.THEIR PERSONS, DRESSES, AND CANOES DESCRIBED.ARRIVAL IN OHEITEPEHA BAY AT OTAHEITE.OMAIS RECEPTION,...
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The Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of EgyptThe Life and Times of Akhnaton, Pharaoh of EgyptThe reign of Akhnaton, for seventeen years Pharaoh of Egypt (from B.C. 1375 to 1358), stands out as the most interesting epoch in the long sequence of Egyptian history. We have watched the endless line of...
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