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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 6Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 6My LORD:I was lately invited to a tea-party by one of our rich upstarts, who, from a scavenger, is, by the Revolution...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 5Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 5MY LORD:Since my return here, I have never neglected to present myself before our Sovereign, on his days of grand reviews and...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 4Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 4MY LORD:The Italian subjects of Napoleon the First were far from displaying the same zeal and the same gratitude for his paternal...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 3Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 3MY LORD:No Sovereigns have, since the Revolution, displayed more grandeur of soul, and evinced more firmness of character, than the present King...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 2Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 2MY LORD:Bonaparte has been as profuse in his disposal of the Imperial diadem of Germany, as in his promises of the papal...
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Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 1Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 1The writer of the Letters (whose name is said to have been Stewarton, and who had been a friend of the Empress...
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The Mirrors of WashingtonThe Mirrors of Washington President of the United States; b. Corsica, Morrow Co., O., Nov. 2, 1865; Educ. student of Ohio Central Coll. (now defunct), Iberia, 1879-82; engaged in newspaper business at Marion, O., since 1884; pres. Harding Pub. Co., pubs. Star (daily); mem....
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HaydnHaydn The authority for Haydn's life is the biography begun by the late Dr Pohl, and completed after his death by E.V. Mandyczewski. To this work, as yet untranslated, every subsequent writer is necessarily indebted, and the present volume, which I may fairly claim...
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Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon BonaparteThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do with the texts....
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Famous Men of the Middle AgesFamous Men of the Middle Ages The study of history, like the study of a landscape, should begin with the most conspicuous features. Not until these have been fixed in memory will the lesser features fall into their appropriate places and assume their right...
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Cartrefi CymruCartrefi CymruDyma gartref Edmund Prys, swynwr yn ol cred gwlad, arch-ddiacon Meirionnydd wrth ei swydd, a chyfieithydd melodaidd y Salmau. Ganwyd ef tua 1541, bu farw tua 1621. Nid edwyn neb le ei fedd ym Maentwrog. Y mae Bryn Tynoriad yn nyffryn yr Wnion,...
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Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1This should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what...
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Alfred TennysonAlfred TennysonIn writing this brief sketch of the Life of Tennyson, and this attempt to appreciate his work, I have rested almost entirely on the Biography by Lord Tennyson (with his kind permission) and on the text of the Poems. As to the Life,...
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Honoré de BalzacHonoré de BalzacOf all the books perhaps the one best designed for training the mind and forming the character is "Plutarch." The lives of great men are object-lessons. They teach effort, devotion, industry, heroism and sacrifice. Even one who confines his reading solely to...
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English Men of LettersChaucer The peculiar conditions of this essay must be left to explain themselves. It could not have been written at all without the aid of the Publications of the Chaucer Society, and more especially of the labours of the Society's Director, Mr. Furnivall. To...
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The Americanization of Edward BokThe Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years Afterto the american woman i owe much,but to two women i owe more, MY MOTHERandMY WIFE. and to them i dedicate this account of the boyto whom one gave birth...
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Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own WordsBeethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words This little book came into existence as if it were by chance. The author had devoted himself for a long time to the study of Beethoven and carefully scrutinized all manner of...
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Fabre, Poet of ScienceFabre, Poet of Science Here I offer to the public the life of Jean-Henri Fabre; at once an admiring commentary upon his work and an act of pious homage, such as ought to be offered, while he lives, to the great naturalist who is...
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The Life of George BorrowThe Life of George BorrowDuring the whole of Borrows manhood there was probably only one period when he was unquestionably happy in his work and content with his surroundings. He may almost be said to have concentrated into the seven years (18331840) that he...
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The Boys' Life of Mark TwainThe Boys' Life of Mark TwainThis is the story of a boy, born in the humblest surroundings, reared almost without schooling, and amid benighted conditions such as to-day have no existence, yet who lived to achieve a world-wide fame; to attain honorary degrees from...
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