Biography & Autobiography
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Looking Back: An AutobiographyLooking Back: An AutobiographyMy spare time, only, is occupied in literary efforts. I never allow them to interfere with either my business or social life. In composing, in a mysterious way, I comprehend the companionship of my imaginary friends as vividly as I do...
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The Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and PioneerThe Life and Times of Col. Daniel Boone, Hunter, Soldier, and Pioneer - With Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the WestDANIEL BOONE was the ideal of the American pioneerbrave, cool, self-reliant, a dead shot with his...
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Wege und UmwegeWege und Umwege Gedanken, Meinungen und berzeugungen drngen nach uerung, lange bevor wir noch wissen, welchen Ausdruck wir ihnen verleihen, in welche Form wir sie bringen knnen. Den einen treiben sie zur Gestaltung, zur Ausfhrung oder zur Tat, den minder Glcklichen zwingen sie zur...
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Henry Ford's Own StoryHenry Ford's Own Story - How a Farmer Boy Rose to the Power that goes with Many Millions, Yet Never Lost Touch with HumanityTwenty-six years later a little neighborhood on the edge of Detroit was amused to hear that the man Ford who had...
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Famous American Belles of the 19th CenturyFamous American Belles of the Nineteenth CenturyDuring the century now drawing to its close there have appeared in America from time to time women of so pre-eminent a beauty, so dazzling a wit, so powerful a magnetism, that their names belong no less to...
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Louis Spohr's AutobiographyLouis Spohr's Autobiography - Translated from the GermanIn publishing an English translation of the unadorned yet highly interesting Autobiography of the celebrated Violinist and great Composer Louis Spohr, we consider we are but satisfying a natural desire on the part of his many admirers...
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Inferno LegendenInferno; LegendenGott und Lucifer, jeder auf seinem Thron. Sie sind von Engeln umgeben. Gott ist ein Greis, dessen Gesichtsausdruck streng, fast bse ist; er hat einen langen weissen Bart und kleine Hrner, wie der Moses Michelangelos. Seht, dort unten zwischen Mars und Venus sind...
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A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2)A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2)One remarkable circumstance among those which specially characterised the great intellectual movement in Italy in the sixteenth century, was the large part taken in it by women. The writers of literary history,a class especially abundant to...
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A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2)A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2)The degree in which any social system has succeeded in ascertaining woman's proper position, and in putting her into it, will be a very accurate test of the progress it has made in civilisation. And the...
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The Story of Doctor Johnson Being an Introduction to Boswell's LifeThe Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell's LifeThe object of this little book is clearly expressed on the title-page; and the title-page might be left to speak for itself, were it not for the inevitable criticism that Boswell needs no introduction....
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The Life of Our Lord in Simple Language for Little ChildrenThe Life of Our Lord in Simple Language for Little ChildrenThe easiest words and those most familiar to children have generally been used and every effort has been made to adapt the volume to the intelligence of the young with the view of instilling...
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My Mamie Rose: The Story of My RegenerationMy Mamie Rose: The Story of My RegenerationThe map on the left shows how small a fraction of Manhattan Island (only a small part of New York City in itself) this world-famous district is. In this small section, called by Mr. Kildare "The Highway...
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Twelve Years a SlaveTwelve Years a Slave - Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in LouisianaWhen the editor commenced the preparation of the following narrative, he did...
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Little Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous BooksLittle Pilgrimages Among the Men Who Have Written Famous BooksThe aim of this book is to present to the reading public sketches of some of its American literary heroes. There are heroes young and old; but in literature, especially, age has little to do...
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Omnia Opera Sancti PatriciiOmnia Opera Sancti Patricii - All the Works of Saint PatrickI. Ego Patricius peccator, rusticissimus et minimus omnium fidelium, et contemptibilissimus apud plurimos, patrem habui Calpornium diaconem, filium quondam Potiti presbyteri, qui fuit in vico Bonavem Taberni: villulam Enon prope habuit, ubi capturam dedi....
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Famous Authors (Men)Famous Authors (Men)The aim of this book is to present to the reading public sketches of some of its American literary heroes. There are heroes young and old; but in literature, especially, age has little to do with favorites. At the same time, it...
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Les historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome sixièmeLes historiettes de Tallemant des Réaux, tome sixième - Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire du XVIIe siècleNote sur la transcription: Les erreurs clairement introduites par le typographe ont t corriges. L'orthographe d'origine a t conserve et n'a pas t harmonise. Les numros des pages...
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Memoiren einer Grossmutter, Band IMemoiren einer Grossmutter, Band I - Bilder aus der Kulturgeschichte der Juden Russlands im 19. JahrhundertAus dem jdischen Leben in Russland kenne ich nur ein einzige, die Zapiski Jewreja von Gregor Isaakowitsch Bogrow. Diesem Werke, das uns einen tiefen und charakteristischen Einblick in das...
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Makers of ElectricityMakers of ElectricityThis volume represents an effort in the direction of what may be called the biographical history of electricity. The controlling idea in its preparation was to provide brief yet reasonably complete sketches of the lives of the great pioneer workers in electricity,...
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The Quest of the Historical JesusThe Quest of the Historical Jesus - A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to WredeThe book here translated is offered to the English-speaking public in the belief that it sets before them, as no other book has ever done, the history of...
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