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Horace Walpole: A memoirHorace Walpole: A memoir - With an appendix of books printed at the Strawberry Hill PressThe Walpoles of Houghton.Horace Walpole born, 24 September, 1717.Lady Louisa Stuart's Story.Scattered Facts of his Boyhood.Minor Anecdotes.'La belle Jennings.'The Bugles.Interview with George I. before his Death.Portrait at this time.Goes...
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A Cyclopædia of Canadian BiographyA Cyclopædia of Canadian Biography - Brief biographies of persons distinguished in the professional, military and political life, and the commerce and industry of Canada, in the twentieth centuryIt is now thirty-three years since the first volume of biographies bearing the title Representative Canadians...
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Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2]Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 2 of 2] - Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs,...
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Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 1 of 2]Shakspeare and His Times [Vol. 1 of 2] - Including the Biography of the Poet; criticisms on his genius and writings; a new chronology of his plays; a disquisition on the on the object of his sonnets; and a history of the manners, customs,...
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The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of CanadaThe Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of CanadaThe following memoir was written from the dictation of Josiah Henson. A portion of the story was told, which, when written, was read to him, that any errors of statement might be...
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The Courtships of Queen ElizabethThe Courtships of Queen Elizabeth - A history of the various negotiations for her marriageIt has been my pleasant duty to consider carefully in chronological order a great mass of diplomatic documents of the time of Elizabeth, in which are reflected, almost from day...
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The Gold-Headed CaneThe Gold-Headed CaneWilliam Macmichael, the author of the Gold-Headed Cane, was born at Bridgenorth, in Shropshire, in 1784, and after receiving his education at the grammar school of that town, entered as a student at Christ Church, Oxford, where, after receiving his degree of...
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Josephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical MemoirJosephine E. Butler: An Autobiographical MemoirJosephine Butler was one of the great people of the world. In character, in work done, in influence on others, she was among that few great people who have moulded the course of things. The world is different because...
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William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareThe true title of this work should be, "Apropos to Shakespeare." The desire of introducing, as they say in England, before the public, the new translation of Shakespeare, has been the first motive of the author. The feeling which interests him so profoundly...
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Kaarle XII:n historiaKaarle XII:n historiaIhmeellinen ja killinen muutos Kaarle XII:n luonteessa. Kahdeksantoistavuotiaana hn ky sotaa Tanskaa, Puolaa ja Venj vastaan, ptt Tanskan-sotansa kuudessa viikossa, ly kahdeksalla tuhannella ruotsalaisella kahdeksankymment tuhatta venlist ja hykk Puolaan. Puolan ja sen hallinnon kuvaus. Kaarle voittaa useita taisteluja, psee Puolan herraksi...
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Honoré de BalzacHonoré de Balzac Vers 1835, nous habitions deux petites chambres dans l'impasse du Doyenn, la place peu prs qu'occupe aujourd'hui le pavillon Mollien. Quoique situ au centre de Paris, en face des Tuileries, deux pas du Louvre, l'endroit tait dsert et sauvage, et il...
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Honoré de BalzacHonoré de Balzac Around 1835, I lived in two small rooms in the Impasse du Doyenn, not far from the current location of the Pavillon Mollien. Although it was located in the center of Paris facing the Tuilleries and just a few steps from...
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From Farm Boy to SenatorFrom Farm Boy to Senator - Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel WebsterBut thirty years have elapsed since the death of Daniel Webster, and there is already danger that, so far as young people are concerned, he will become an...
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Historical Characters: Mackintosh, Talleyrand, Canning, Cobbett, PeelHistorical Characters: Mackintosh, Talleyrand, Canning, Cobbett, PeelThe sale which this work has had in its original form has induced my publisher to recommend a cheaper and more popular one; and I myself gladly seize the opportunity of correcting some of the errors in print...
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Lord LawrenceLord LawrenceJohn Laird Mair Lawrence was born in 1811 and died in 1879, being sixty-eight years of age. Within that time he entered the Civil Service of the East India Company, governed the Punjab then the most difficult province in India, took a very...
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The Room with the Little DoorThe Room with the Little DoorMost of the following is true, or founded on truth. A few are waifsproducts of my imagination; little stories that came into my mind from time to time. Some of them are from letters written home while I was...
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A Society Clown: ReminiscencesA Society Clown: ReminiscencesIt was one dark, dank, dreary, dismal night in February, 1888 (I believe that is the way to commence a book, no matter what the subject be), when the present writer might have been seen standing, with other gentlemen, in a...
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LeopardiLeopardi Il presente libriccino fu composto prima della ricorrenza del Centenario leopardiano e vide la luce durante quella memorabile celebrazione, cio mentre l'immensa miniera dello Zibaldone, per mezzo secolo rimasta ignorata o inaccessibile, si veniva appena schiudendo. Dopo che fu tutta aperta ed in...
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In the Royal Naval Air ServiceIn the Royal Naval Air Service - Being the war letters of the late Harold Rosher to his family{3} Harold Rosher was born at Beckenham on the 18th November, 1893, and was educated at The Dene, Caterham, and subsequently at Woodbridge. Although as a...
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Letters from MuskokaLetters from MuskokaIn laying before the public a sketch of our Bush experiences during the first year after our arrival in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada, I desire to state the reasons which prompted us to such an imprudent step as emigration, without even the moderate...
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