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The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 1The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 1 In offering this work to the public, it is due to the reader no less than the writer, to say something of the extreme difficulty which has been found in obtaining materials sufficiently reliable for a...
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Hero Tales from HistoryHero Tales from HistoryAN interest in history and a love of historical reading will be most readily acquired by those children who approach this rich field of literature through the medium of stories of the great figures of the past. Such stories, if properly...
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Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians, with Illustrations and SpeechesLives of Distinguished North Carolinians, with Illustrations and SpeechesThis book is written of North Carolinians by North Carolinians. Many of the writers are no less distinguished than their subjects, and these together give it local color, distinctiveness, and personality which ought to make it...
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"Great-Heart": The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt"Great-Heart": The Life Story of Theodore RooseveltThe purpose of the writer has been to show why Rudyard Kipling thought Theodore Roosevelt the incarnation of Bunyans character Great-Heart, and to reflect the romance and inspiration contained in Roosevelts life. The work has been approached from...
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"Buffalo Bill" from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild West"Buffalo Bill" from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild WestAn association of some thirty years with the subject of these pages, a familiarity with his history gained by opportune meetings and conversations with comrades now living, and those since deadwho were...
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The Life and Letters of George John Romanes, M.A., LL.D., F.R.SThe Life and Letters of George John Romanes, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. [Pg 1] GEORGE JOHN ROMANES George John Romanes was born at Kingston, Canada, on May 20, 1848, the third son of the Rev. George Romanes, D.D., then Professor of Greek in the University...
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Father Henson's Story of His Own LifeFather Henson's Story of His Own Life - Truth Stranger Than FictionThe numerous friends of the author of this little work will need no greater recommendation than his name to make it welcome. Among all the singular and interesting records to which the institution...
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A Middy's Recollections, 1853-1860A Middy's Recollections, 1853-1860Born in April 1841, I was about six months more than twelve years old when I joined the Royal Navy. My father was the seventh Earl of Sandwich; my mother, a daughter of the Marquis of Anglesea, who commanded cavalry at...
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The Whistler BookThe Whistler Book - A Monograph of the Life and Position in Art of James McNeill Whistler, Together with a Careful Study of His More Important WorksThe white chrysanthemum is my favourite flower. There are other flowers, I grant, perhaps more beautiful, which I...
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Kate GreenawayKate GreenawayApart from her work, full record of which is made in the following pages, there was in the life of Kate Greenaway one outstanding featureher friendship with John Ruskin. To this, without the permission of the great critics legal representatives, no sort of...
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Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long LifeMarion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long LifeFrom the time when, as a mere baby, I dreamed myself to slumber every night by making up stories, down to the present hour, every human life with which I have been associated, or of which...
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Personal Recollections of Distinguished GeneralsPersonal Recollections of Distinguished GeneralsThe purpose of this volume is to make more familiar to the general public the actual characters of some of our great military leaders during the late war. I have attempted to portray them not as on parade, but in...
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Woman in Sacred HistoryWoman in Sacred History - A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary SourcesAll the characters comprised in these sketches belong to one nationality. They are of that mysterious and ancient race whose records begin with the dawn of history; who, for...
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Early Lives of Charlemagne by Eginhard and the Monk of St Gall edited by Prof. A. J. GrantEarly Lives of Charlemagne by Eginhard and the Monk of St Gall edited by Prof. A. J. GrantThe two Lives contrasted.This volume contains two lives of Charles the Great, or Charlemagne (for both forms of the name will be used indifferently in this introduction);...
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Figuras americanas: Galería de hombres illustresFiguras americanas: Galería de hombres illustresNota del Transcriptor: Se ha respetado la ortografa y la acentuacin del original. Errores obvios de imprenta han sido corregidos. Pginas en blanco han sido eliminadas. La portada fue diseada por el transcriptor y se considera dominio pblico Todos...
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The Women's Victory—and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918The Women's Victory—and After: Personal Reminiscences, 1911-1918I wish to dedicate this little book to the thousands of faithful friends and gallant comrades whose brave unwearied work, steadfastly maintained through many years, made Women's Suffrage in Great Britain no longer a dream but a reality....
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Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay)Fanny Burney (Madame D'Arblay)The main sources for this memoir of Frances or Fanny Burney,afterwards Madame DArblay,in addition to her novels, the literature of the period, and the works specified in the footnotes, are as follows: 1. Memoirs of Dr. Burney, arranged from his own...
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On a Chinese ScreenOn a Chinese Screen You come to the row of hovels that leads to the gate of the city. They are built of dried mud and so dilapidated that you feel a breath of wind will lay them flat upon the dusty earth from...
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Autobiography of Matthew Scott, Jumbo's Keeper Also Jumbo's Biography, by the same AuthorAutobiography of Matthew Scott, Jumbo's Keeper; Also Jumbo's Biography, by the same AuthorI have travelled through the United States, North, East, South, and West, and have received in my travels the greatest kindness. If Jumbo could but speak, I know he would endorse what...
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Meine Lebens-Erinnerungen - Band 4Meine Lebens-Erinnerungen - Band 4Das eigene Manuscript des Verfassers endigt mit dem Anfang der Reise im Jahre 1844, Seite 151. Bei der Darstellung seiner sptern Lebensereignisse habe ich diejenigen seiner Briefe benutzt, die in meinem Besitze waren, und Auszge aus denselben gemacht, je nachdem...
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