Biography & Autobiography
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Galileo and His JudgesGalileo and His JudgesThere is no name in the annals of science which has been the occasion of so long and fierce a controversy as that of Galileo. The historian, the astronomer, and the theologian have all had a share in it. Sometimes there...
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The Life and Adventures of Jack SheppardThe Life and Surprising Exploits of Jack SheppardJACK SHEPPARD was born in the parish of Stepney, near London, in the year 1702. His father was a Carpenter, and he died when Jack was so young, that Jack could not recollect ever seeing him. Hence...
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Money-making men or, how to grow richMoney-making men; or, how to grow richI FEAR City people are very mercenary in their views and habits. It is natural that they should be so; they come into the City to make money, and that is all they are thinking of while they...
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La Nonne AlferezLa Nonne AlferezBien quelle ait toute lallure aventureuse et picaresque dun roman de cape et dpe, lhistoire de la Nonne Alferez est une histoire vraie. Elle sent mme parfois terriblement fort la vrit. Catalina de Erauso a vcu, dune vie exaspre, comme disent les...
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The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. V. Being the First of the Third VoyageThe Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. V. Being the First of the Third VoyageThe spirit of discovery, which had long animated the European nations, having, after its arduous and successful exertions during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, gradually subsided, and...
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ThackerayThackerayAMID all the eulogies and all the slanders that are lavished upon the English character, very few people would appear to take any real trouble to obtain a sincere view of it. Rhetorical phrases about its inarticulate strength and nobility do not commonly bring...
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Interesting Incidents Connected With the Life of George BickersInteresting Incidents Connected With the Life of George Bickers - Originally a Farmer's Parish Apprentice at Laxfield, in Suffolk, but Now Residing in Oultonp. 3The writer of these pages was born at Laxfield, a village in the County of Suffolk, on the 16th day...
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Leo TolstoyLeo TolstoyIF any one wishes to form the fullest estimate of the real character and influence of the great man whose name is prefixed to these remarks, he will not find it in his novels, splendid as they are, or in his ethical views,...
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An Account of the Ladies of LlangollenAn Account of the Ladies of LlangollenLady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby were Irish ladies of rank and beauty, who loved each other with an affection so true that they could never bear the idea of the separation which the marriage of either would...
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'Harper's Handy Series' No. 134, 'English Men of Letters'SoutheyI am indebted throughout to The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey, edited by the Rev. C. C. Southey, six volumes, 1850, and to Selections from the Letters of Robert Southey, edited by J. W. Warter, B.D., four volumes, 1856. Many other sources have...
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The Story of My Life and WorkThe Story of My Life and Work HAVE cheerfully consented to prefix a few words introductory to this autobiography. While I have encouraged its publication, not a sentence has been submitted to my examination. From my intimate acquaintance with the subject, because of my...
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From Midshipman to Field MarshalFrom Midshipman to Field MarshalAncestryParentageThe Grammar School and College at MarlboroughI become a Naval Cadet. The Woods, from whom I am descended, were for hundreds of years owners of Hareston Manor, Brixton, a small village near Plymouth. There is a record of a John...
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Charles DickensCharles DickensCONSIDERED merely as literary fashions, romanticism and realism are both tricks, and tricks alone. The only advantage lies with romanticism, which is a little less artificial and technical than realism. For the great majority of people here and now do naturally write romanticism,...
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Eleanor Ormerod, LL. D., Economic Entomologist : Autobiography and CorrespondenceEleanor Ormerod, LL. D., Economic Entomologist : Autobiography and CorrespondenceThe idea that Miss Ormerod should write her biography originated with the present writer during one of many visits paid to her at St. Albans. Miss Ormerod had unfolded in charming language and with admirable...
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Mahatma Gandhi: The Man Who Became One With the Universal BeingMahatma Gandhi: The Man Who Became One With the Universal BeingIn connection with the present essay I wish to tender my affectionate thanks to my faithful collaborator, my sister, and to my friend, Kalidas Nag, whose deep knowledge and indefatigable kindness have guided my...
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When They Were GirlsWhen They Were GirlsWhen They Were Girls contains the stories of a group of American women, each one of whom occupies a very important place in her particular field. The stories of these women have been written many times before. We feel, however, that...
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The Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. IV. Being the Second of the Second VoyageThe Three Voyages of Captain Cook Round the World. Vol. IV. Being the Second of the Second Voyage.On the 6th, being the day after leaving Ulietea, at eleven oclock A.M. we saw land bearing N.W., which, upon a nearer approach, we found to be...
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Rede lectures 1890ErasmusTranscriber's Notes: Blank pages have been eliminated. Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. A few typographical errors have been corrected. The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public domain. Desiderius Erasmus was born...
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Set Down in Malice: A Book of ReminiscencesSet Down in Malice: A Book of ReminiscencesVery many of the following pages were written in the trenches and dug-outs of Greece and Serbia. I added a chapter or two in Port Said, Alexandria and Marseilles. That is to say, I wrote far away...
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With Lawrence in ArabiaWith Lawrence in ArabiaSurely no one ever offered a volume to the public who was quite so deeply indebted to others, and I have long looked forward to the opportunity of expressing my gratitude. To do this I must turn back the pages of...
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