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The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier WarThe Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War On general grounds I deprecate prefaces. I have always thought that if an author cannot make friends with the reader, and explain his objects, in two or three hundred pages, he is...
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Some ReminiscencesSome Reminiscences ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 9348 Author: Conrad, Joseph Release Date: Nov 1, 2005 Format: eBook Language: English
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A Personal RecordA Personal Record ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 9339 Author: Conrad, Joseph Release Date: Nov 1, 2005 Format: eBook Language: English
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Cleveland Past and Present: Its Representative MenCleveland Past and Present: Its Representative Men - Comprising Biographical Sketches of Pioneer Settlers and Prominent CitizensIn many ways the story of the survey and first settlement of Cleveland has been made familiar to the public. It has been told at pioneer gatherings, reproduced...
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Biographical StoriesBiographical Stories - (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") CONTENTS: BENJAMIN WEST. SIR ISAAC NEWTON. SAMUEL JOHNSON. OLIVER CROMWELL. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. QUEEN CHRISTINA. This small volume and others of a similar character, from the same hand, have not been composed without a deep...
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Biographical SketchesBiographical Sketches - (From: "Fanshawe and Other Pieces") The character of this female suggests a train of thought which will form as natural an Introduction to her story, as most of the Prefaces to Gay's Fables, or the tales of Prior; besides that, the...
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Life of Johnson, Volume 3Life of Johnson, Volume 3 - 1776-1780Having left Ashbourne in the evening, we stopped to change horses at Derby, and availed ourselves of a moment to enjoy the conversation of my countryman, Dr. Butter, then physician there. He was in great indignation because Lord...
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My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah BernhardtMy Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt My mother was fond of travelling: she would go from Spain to England, from London to Paris, from Paris to Berlin, and from there to Christiania; then she would come back, embrace me, and set out...
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The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2I am sure that you have heard of us, and of all we have done and seen from Edgeworthstown as far as Berne: from thence we went to Thun: there we took char--bancs, little low carriages,...
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Germania and AgricolaGermania and AgricolaThe text of this edition has been carefully revised and compared with those of Dderlein, Halle, 1847, Orelli, Zurich, 1848, and Ritter, Bonn and Cambridge, 1848. The notes also have been re-examined and, to a considerable extent, re-written; partly to correspond with...
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HandelHandel {Illustration: G. F. HANDEL from a woodcut by Eric King (not available)} Chapter I Birth and parentagestudies under Zachow at HalleHamburgfriendship and duel with MatthesonAlmiradeparture for Italy. Chapter II Arrival in ItalyRodrigoRome: Cardinal Ottoboni and the ScarlattisNaples: Venice: Agrippinaappointment at HanoverLondon: Rinaldo. Chapter...
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The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life StoryThe Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story This book has grown out of a series of articles contributed to The Saturday Review some ten or twelve years ago. As they appeared they were talked of and criticized in the usual way; a minority...
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Life of Johnson, Volume 2Life of Johnson, Volume 2 - 1765-1776In 1764 and 1765 it should seem that Dr. Johnson was so busily employed with his edition of Shakspeare, as to have had little leisure for any other literary exertion, or, indeed, even for private correspondence[1]. He did...
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Saint AugustinSaint AugustinThe quotations from Saint Augustin's Confessions are taken from Canon Bigg's scholarly version, which seems to me the best in English. But there are places where M. Bertrand's reading of the original text differs from Dr. Bigg's, and in such cases I have...
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The Life of Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1838Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 8957 Author: Gillman, James Release Date: Sep 1, 2005 Format: eBook Language: English
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The Life of Cicero, Volume OneThe Life of Cicero, Volume OneI am conscious of a certain audacity in thus attempting to give a further life of Cicero which I feel I may probably fail in justifying by any new information; and on this account the enterprise, though it has...
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Life of Johnson, Volume 1Life of Johnson, Volume 1 - 1709-1765Fielding, it is said, drank confusion to the man who invented the fifth act of a play. He who has edited an extensive work, and has concluded his labours by the preparation of a copious index, might well...
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Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer MissionaryMary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer MissionaryLife for most people is governed by authority and convention, but behind these there lies always the mystery of human nature, uncertain and elusive, and apt now and again to go off at a tangent and disturb the smooth...
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The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1In her later years Miss Edgeworth was often asked to write a biographical preface to her novels. She refused. "As a woman," she said, "my life, wholly domestic, can offer nothing of interest to the public."...
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Les grands orateurs de la RévolutionLes grands orateurs de la Révolution - Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Danton, RobespierreNul homme ne fut peut-tre mieux prpar que Mirabeau la carrire oratoire. Ces conditions de savoir universel rclames par les anciens, il les remplissait mieux que personne en 1789. Sa lecture tait prodigieuse, grce...
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