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Historic Girls: Stories Of Girls Who Have Influenced The History Of Their TimesHistoric Girls: Stories Of Girls Who Have Influenced The History Of Their Times In these progressive days, when so much energy and discussion are devoted to what is termed equality and the rights of woman, it is well to remember that there have been...
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Boswell's Life of JohnsonBoswell's Life of Johnson - Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Phillips Brooks once told the boys at Exeter that in reading biography three men meet one another in close intimacythe subject of the biography, the author, and the reader....
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Letters to Dead AuthorsLetters to Dead AuthorsSixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the Editor of the St. Jamess Gazette, appeared in that journal, from which they are now reprinted, by the Editors kind permission. They have been somewhat emended, and a few...
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The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. NationThe Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. NationPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove...
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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce...
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The Chignecto Isthmus and Its First SettlersThe Chignecto Isthmus and Its First SettlersFor some years past I, in common with many others, have felt that all letters of interest and accessible facts in connection with the early history of the Truemans should be collected and put in permanent form, not...
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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce...
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ShelleyShelley In the case of most great writers our interest in them as persons is derived from out interest in them as writers; we are not very curious about them except for reasons that have something to do with their art. With Shelley it...
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Shelley: An EssayShelley: An EssayThe Church, which was once the mother of poets no less than of saints, during the last two centuries has relinquished to aliens the chief glories of poetry, if the chief glories of holiness she has preserved for her own. The palm...
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Twenty Years at Hull House with Autobiographical NotesTwenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical NotesEvery preface is, I imagine, written after the book has been completed and now that I have finished this volume I will state several difficulties which may put the reader upon his guard unless he too postpones...
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Some ReminiscencesSome Reminiscences As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with some spirit; but, with characteristic tenacity,...
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The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of ItThe Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It Where were you previous to the eighth and immediately subsequent thereto? asked the city attorney. The prisoner looked sheepish and made no answer. A box car had been robbed on...
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Queen VictoriaQueen Victoria On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and vehement, she had always longed for liberty;...
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Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"]Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody ["Buffalo Bill"] In presenting this volume to the public the writer has a twofold purpose. For a number of years there has been an increasing demand for an authentic biography of "Buffalo...
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Faraday as a DiscovererFaraday as a Discoverer The experimental researches of Faraday are so voluminous, their descriptions are so detailed, and their wealth of illustration is so great, as to render it a heavy labour to master them. The multiplication of proofs, necessary and interesting when the...
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Sidney LanierSidney LanierPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for each...
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Life of John SterlingLife of John Sterling Transcriber's Note: Italics in the text are indicated by the use of an underscore as delimiter, thusly. All footnotes have been collected at the end of the text, and numbered sequentially in brackets, [thusly]. One illustration has been omitted. The...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 2The reply (to my telegram of October 16, 1863, from Cairo, announcing my arrival at that point) came on the morning of the 17th, directing me to proceed immediately to the Galt House, Louisville, where I...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1"Man proposes and God disposes." There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice. Although frequently urged by friends to write my memoirs I had determined never to...
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William the ConquerorWilliam the ConquerorThe history of England, like the land and its people, has been specially insular, and yet no land has undergone deeper influences from without. No land has owed more than England to the personal action of men not of native birth. Britain...
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