Biography for Beginners

Biography for Beginners - Being a Collection of Miscellaneous Examples for the Use of Upper Forms

THE QUESTION By Parry Truscott Author of "Catherine" THE WICKED WORLD By Alice Maud Meadows Author of "The Dukedom of Portsea" JOHN MARVEL By Thomas Nelson Page Author of "Red Rock" By MARY GAUNT The Uncounted Cost Part Author of "The Silent Ones" By HALLIWELL SUTCLIFFE A Winter's Comedy A Tale of Yorkshire By VICTORIA CROSS The Eternal Fires Contains portrait of Author in Colours By SHAN F. BULLOCK Master John Author of "Robert Thorne" By STANLEY PORTAL HYATT Black Sheep Author of "The Marriage of Hilary Carden" Introductory Remarks Sir Christopher Wren Miguel de Cervantes George Bernard Shaw Sir Humphrey Davy J. S. Mill Franois Liszt Lord Clive King Edward the Confessor The Rev. John Clifford, M.A., LL.B., D.D. Messrs Chapman & Hall Karl Marx Otto the Great Marconi David Hume Mr H. Belloc Job Pizarro The Duke of Fife, K.T., P.C., G.C.V.O. The Duke of Wellington John Bunyan George Hirst Erasmus and the Humanists Besant and Rice Tiziano Vecelli Professor James Dewar, F.R.S. Sir Walter Raleigh Jane Austen Odo of Bayeux David Ricardo Sir Thomas Mallory Mr Alfred Beit Cimabue President Roosevelt Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford Sir Alexander Fuller Acland-Hood, M.P. Mahomet Edvard Grieg Jan Van Eyck Mr T. Werner Laurie Index of Psychology (In all work of a biographic character it is important to make copious reference to as many as possible of the generally-recognised virtues, vices, good points, foibles, peculiarities, tricks, characteristics, little weaknesses, traits, imperfections, fads, idiosyncrasies, singularities, morbid symptoms, oddities, faults, and regrettable propensities set forth in the following table. The form of an alphabetic index, with references to the examples given in the preceding pages, has been chosen, so that the beginner who may be desirous, when trying his hand at work of this sort, of seeing how any given one of these subjects may best be treated, is enabled at once to turn to one or more model passages.) ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 46691
Author: Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew)
Release Date: Aug 26, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew), 1875-1956
Illustrator: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith), 1874-1936