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Louis Agassiz: His Life and CorrespondenceLouis Agassiz: His Life and CorrespondenceI am aware that this book has neither the fullness of personal narrative, nor the closeness of scientific analysis, which its too comprehensive title might lead the reader to expect. A word of explanation is therefore needed. I thought...
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Works of John Bunyan — CompleteWorks of John Bunyan — CompleteIt is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates...
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Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their...
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Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02Though this be a small treatise, yet it doth present thee with things of the greatest and most weighty concernment, even with a discourse of life and death to eternity: opening, and clearing, by the scriptures of God,...
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Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 When the Philistine giant, Goliath, mocked the host of Israel, and challenged any of their stern warriors to single combat, what human being could have imagined that the gigantic heathen would be successfully met in the mortal...
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Memoirs of My Life and WritingsMemoirs of My Life and Writings In the fifty-second year of my age, after the completion of an arduous and successful work, I now propose to employ some moments of my leisure in reviewing the simple transactions of a private and literary life. Truth,...
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An Autobiography of Anthony TrollopeAn Autobiography of Anthony TrollopeIt may be well that I should put a short preface to this book. In the summer of 1878 my father told me that he had written a memoir of his own life. He did not speak about it at...
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10 Englishmen of the 19th CenturyTen Englishmen of the Nineteenth CenturyThe opening of the nineteenth century found England in the midst of a great foreign war, which for almost a generation absorbed the thought and energy of the nation, and postponed for the time the vital questions of economic...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 6Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 6.When news of Sherman being in possession of Savannah reached the North, distinguished statesmen and visitors began to pour in to see him. Among others who went was the Secretary of War, who seemed much pleased at...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 5Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 5.The Mattapony River is formed by the junction of the Mat, the Ta, the Po and the Ny rivers, the last being the northernmost of the four. It takes its rise about a mile south and a...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 4Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 4.The 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 would...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 3Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 3.My position at Corinth, with a nominal command and yet no command, became so unbearable that I asked permission of Halleck to remove my headquarters to Memphis. I had repeatedly asked, between the fall of Donelson and...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 2Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 2.CHAPTER XXIV. THE ARMY AT PITTSBURG LANDINGINJURED BY A FALLTHE CONFEDERATE ATTACK AT SHILOHTHE FIRST DAY'S FIGHT AT SHILOHGENERAL SHERMANCONDITION OF THE ARMYCLOSE OF THE FIRST DAY'S FIGHTTHE SECOND DAY'S FIGHTRETREAT AND DEFEAT OF THE CONFEDERATES. My...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 1Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 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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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 6Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 6The headquarters of the military department to which I was assigned when relieved from duty at New Orleans was at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and on the 5th of September I started for that post. In...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 5Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 5The night of March 30 Merritt, with Devin's division and Davies's brigade, was camped on the Five Forks road about two miles in front of Dinwiddie, near J. Boisseau's. Crook, with Smith and Gregg's brigades,...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 4Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 2, Part 4ORGANIZING SCOUTSMISS REBECCA WRIGHTIMPORTANT INFORMATIONDECIDE TO MOVE ON NEWTOWNMEETING GENERAL GRANTORGANIZATION OF THE UNION ARMYOPENING OF THE BATTLE OF THE OPEQUONDEATH OF GENERAL RUSSELLA TURNING MOVEMENTA SUCCESSFUL CAVALRY CHARGEVICTORYTHREE LOYAL GIRLSAPPOINTED A BRIGADIER-GENERAL IN THE...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 3Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 3By 9 o'clock on the morning of September 22 my command took up a position within the heavy line of intrenchments at Chattanooga, the greater part of which defenses had been thrown up since the...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 2Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 2The expedition referred to by General Halleck in his parting conversation was composed of the Second Michigan and Second Iowa regiments of cavalry, formed into a brigade under command of Colonel Washington L. Elliott, of...
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Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 1Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 1 When, yielding to the solicitations of my friends, I finally decided to write these Memoirs, the greatest difficulty which confronted me was that of recounting my share in the many notable events of the...
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