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Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary SomervillePersonal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary SomervilleThe life of a woman entirely devoted to her family duties and to scientific pursuits affords little scope for a biography. There are in it neither stirring events nor brilliant deeds to record; and...
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Saint Athanasius, the Father of OrthodoxySaint Athanasius, the Father of Orthodoxy"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. . . . And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." John...
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Life of St. Vincent de PaulLife of St. Vincent de Paul"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. Wherefore he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the contrite of heart, to preach deliverance to the captives, and sight to...
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Jaime de Magalhães LimaJaime de Magalhães LimaUma monstruosidade do PassadoA Meza CensriaTorquemada e EscobarA critica com o constitucionalismoComo a Meza Censoria persisteA hypocrisiaQue critica a Republica recebe das mos da MonarquiaO que ela , em geralComo ha de haver Arte livre?Como ha de haver escritores e editores?Os...
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Mrs. HungerfordMrs. Hungerford - Notable Women Authors of the DayIt is well worth encountering the perils of the sea, even in the middle of winter, and in the teeth of a north-east wind, if only to experience the absolute comfort and ease with which, in...
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The Vanishing Race: The Last Great Indian CouncilThe Vanishing Race: The Last Great Indian Council Please note that this book contains a photograph of a burial platform, which some may find offensive. The elegaic tone, typical of the time, of much of the book may also annoy the modern reader. Some...
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RaleighRaleighThe existing Lives of Raleigh are very numerous. To this day the most interesting of these, as a literary production, is that published in 1736 by William Oldys, afterwards Norroy King at Arms. This book was a marvel of research, as well as of...
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Lord John RussellLord John RussellThis monograph could not have been writtenin the intimate senseif the Dowager Countess Russell had not extended a confidence which, I trust, has in no direction been abused. Lady Russell has not only granted me access to her journal and papers as...
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Political Women, Vol. 2Political Women, Vol. 2The second-rate actors in this shifting drama presented no less diversity in the motives of their actions. Beaufort, who commanded the troops of Gaston, and Nemours those of Cond, although brothers-in-law, weakened by their dissentions an army which their concord would...
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Sketch of Handel and BeethovenSketch of Handel and Beethoven - Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864A brief account of "The Wimbledon Village Club" will explain the origin and object of...
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The Chronicles of a Gay GordonThe Chronicles of a Gay GordonJos Maria Jacobo Rafael Ramon Francisco Gabriel del Corazon de Jesus Gordon y Prendergastto give the writer of this book the full name with which he was christened in Jerz de la Frontera on March 19, 1856belongs to an...
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From Slave to College President: Being the Life Story of Booker T. WashingtonFrom Slave to College President: Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washingtonare not familiar, but few are now aware that they came into being as the marching song, made and used by the followers of "John Brown of Harper's Ferry," or of "Ossawatomie,"...
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My Father as I Recall HimMy Father as I Recall HimThe pages of this little book were in type and about to be sent for correction to my sisterwho had been for some months in very delicate healthwhen she suddenly became still more gravely ill. The hand which had...
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Political Women, Vol. 1Political Women, Vol. 1In selecting the careers of certain celebrated women who have flung themselves with ardour into the vortex of politics, the authors choice has not been so much an arbitrary one as it might seem, but rather guided by instances in which...
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Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their TimesHistoric Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their TimesThe world's historic boys and girls have been many. In every age and clime may be found notable examples of young people who, even before they reached manhood or womanhood, havefor good or evilleft their impress...
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Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol IIMemoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II News of the Battles of the 6th and 12th of July reach England.Rejoicings on the occasion, particularly described in a letter from Mrs. Saumarez.Promotion of Lieutenant Dumaresq.Letters from Earl St. Vincent, Mr. Tucker, and...
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Old Familiar FacesOld Familiar FacesFor some years before his death it was the intention of Theodore Watts-Dunton to publish in volume form under the title of Old Familiar Faces, the recollections of his friends that he had from time to time contributed to The Athenum. Had...
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Richard IRichard I - Makers of HistoryThe author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history, but history itself,...
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Stories of Authors, British and AmericanStories of Authors, British and AmericanThe purpose of this book is to help in making literature and the makers of literature alive and interesting. Few schools have libraries including the bound volumes of the magazines of the past quarter of a century. But what...
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 03 (of 10)Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 03 (of 10) - Filarete and Simone to MantegnaIf Pope Eugenius IV, when he resolved to make the bronze door for S. Pietro in Rome, had used diligence in seeking for men of excellence...
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