Biography & Autobiography
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great ScientistsPrinted and made into a Book by The Roycrofters, who are in East Aurora, Erie County, New York Wm. H. Wise & Co. New York...
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The Red Book of HeroesThe Red Book of Heroes'Life is not all beer and skittles,' said a reflective sportsman, and all books are not fairy tales. In an imperfect state of existence, 'the peety of it is that we cannot have all things as we would like them.'...
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Adrift on an Ice-PanAdrift on an Ice-Pan"A citizen of Britain is before you, once a student in this University, now better known to the people of the New World than to our own. This is the man who fifteen years ago went to the coast of Labrador,...
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Irish Plays and PlaywrightsIrish Plays and PlaywrightsThere are so many who have helped me with this book that I cannot begin to thank them one by one. If I name any, however, there are four I would name together. There is my old friend, long since dead,...
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Charlotte Brontë and Her CircleCharlotte Brontë and Her CircleIt is claimed for the following book of some five hundred pages that the larger part of it is an addition of entirely new material to the romantic story of the Bronts. For this result, but very small credit is...
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The Great Book-CollectorsThe Great Book-CollectorsIn undertaking to write these few chapters on the lives of the book-collectors, we feel that we must move between lines that seem somewhat narrow, having regard to the possible range of the subject. We shall therefore avoid as much as possible...
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 - Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great TeachersPrinted and made into a Book by The Roycrofters, who are in East Huron, Erie County, New York Wm. H. Wise & Co. New York...
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GoldsmithGoldsmith - English Men of Letters Series"Innocently to amuse the imagination in this dream of life is wisdom." So wrote Oliver Goldsmith; and surely among those who have earned the world's gratitude by this ministration he must be accorded a conspicuous place. If, in...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 1Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 1"Marse Glenn had 64 slaves. On Sat'day night, de darkies would have a little fun on de side. A way off from...
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English Men of LettersGibbonEdward Gibbon[1] was born at Putney, near London, on 27th April in the year 1737. After the reformation of the calendar his birthday became the 8th of May. He was the eldest of a family of seven children; but his five brothers and only...
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HumeHume - (English Men of Letters Series)David Hume was born, in Edinburgh on the 26th of April (O.S.), 1711. His parents were then residing in the parish of the Tron church, apparently on a visit to the Scottish capital, as the small estate which...
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Recollections of the late William BeckfordRecollections of the late William Beckford - of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, BathThe Manuscript of the following Letters, written by my Father, has been in my possession fifty years. He intended to publish it at the time of Mr. Beckfords death, in 1844, but...
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Life of Saint Francis of AssisiLife of St. Francis of AssisiIn the renascence of history which is in a manner the characteristic of our time, the Middle Ages have been the object of peculiar fondness with both criticism and erudition. We rummage all the dark corners of the libraries,...
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Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.DPrince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. - With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.rabic science constitutes one of the main links between the older learned world of...
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Les Femmes de la RévolutionLes Femmes de la RévolutionEt comment liriez-vous? vous regardez l-bas o vont vos fils, vos frres!ou plus prs, sur la ligne o vos poux peut-tre iront demain! Votre me est aux nouvelles, votre oreille au canon lointain; vous coutez inquites son premier coup, solennel...
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Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back AgainModern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again - A Life StoryThe object of this Book is, First, to explain a portion of my own history, and, Secondly, to check the spread of infidelity, and promote the interests of Christianity....
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ThackerayThackerayIn the foregoing volumes of this series of English Men of Letters, and in other works of a similar nature which have appeared lately as to the Ancient Classics and Foreign Classics, biography has naturally been, if not the leading, at any rate a...
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Hugh: Memoirs of a BrotherHugh: Memoirs of a Brother[Pg 1] How loudly and boisterously the wind roared to-day across the low-hung, cloud-smeared sky, driving the broken rack before it, warm and wet out of the south! What a wintry landscape! leafless trees bending beneath the onset of the...
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Stories of Achievement, Volume IV, Authors and JournalistsStories of Achievement, Volume IV, Authors and Journalists In the preparation of this volume the publishers have received from several houses and authors generous permissions to reprint copyright material. For this they wish to express their cordial gratitude. In particular, acknowledgments are due to...
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Stories of Achievement, Volume III, Orators and ReformersStories of Achievement, Volume III, Orators and Reformers In the preparation of this volume the publishers have received from several houses and authors generous permissions to reprint copyright material. For this they wish to express their cordial gratitude. In particular, acknowledgments are due to...
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