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Rab and His FriendsRab and His Friends Four years ago, my uncle, the Rev. Dr. Smith of Biggar, asked me to give a lecture in my native village, the shrewd little capital of the Upper Ward. I never lectured before; I have no turn for it; but...
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Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2[With the year 1870 comes another turning-point in Huxley's career. From his return to England in 1850 till 1854 he had endured four years of hard struggle, of hope deferred; his reputation as a zoologist...
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My Life — Volume 1My Life — Volume 1The contents of these volumes have been written down directly from my dictation, over a period of several years, by my friend and wife, who wished me to tell her the story of my life. It was the desire of...
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My Life — Volume 2My Life — Volume 2MINNA had been lucky enough to find quarters near Zurich which corresponded very closely with the wishes I had so emphatically expressed before leaving. The house was situated in the parish of Enge, a good fifteen minutes' walk from the...
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Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeLives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeWhen, at the age of sixty-eight, Johnson was writing these Lives of the English Poets, he had caused omissions to be made from the poems of Rochester, and was asked whether he would allow the...
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Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, CowleyLives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, CowleySamuel Johnson, born at Lichfield in the year 1709, on the 7th of September Old Style, 18th New Style, was sixty-eight years old when he agreed with the booksellers to write his Lives of the English...
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Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1The American edition of the "Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley" calls for a few words by way of preface, for there existed a particular relationship between the English writer and his transatlantic readers....
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Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — CompleteFrederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete BESIDES minor corrections, the present edition contains the correction of the day and year of Frederick Francis Chopin's birth, which have been discovered since the publication of the second edition of this work. According to...
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Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2THE loves of famous men and women, especially of those connected with literature and the fine arts, have always excited much curiosity. In the majority of cases the poet's and artist's choice of a partner...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 06The Great Intendant : A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-1672When the year 1665 began, the French colony on the shores of the St Lawrence, founded by the valour and devotion of Champlain, had been in existence for more than half a century....
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Chopin : the Man and His MusicChopin : the Man and His Music Gustave Flaubert, pessimist and master of cadenced lyric prose, urged young writers to lead ascetic lives that in their art they might be violent. Chopin's violence was psychic, a travailing and groaning of the spirit; the bright...
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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 3Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 3 Sixty or seventy years ago it was considered a great joke to chalk up on any man's house-door, or on his trunk at a coaching-station, the conspicuous letters "G. T. T." The laugh went...
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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, CompleteFamous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete Of all love stories that are known to human history, the love story of Antony and Cleopatra has been for nineteen centuries the most remarkable. It has tasked the resources of the plastic...
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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 2Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 2 It has often been said that the greatest Frenchman who ever lived was in reality an Italian. It might with equal truth be asserted that the greatest Russian woman who ever lived was in...
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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 4Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 4 The story of Jonathan Swift and of the two women who gave their lives for love of him is familiar to every student of English literature. Swift himself, both in letters and in politics,...
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Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 1Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 1 Of all love stories that are known to human history, the love story of Antony and Cleopatra has been for nineteen centuries the most remarkable. It has tasked the resources of the plastic and...
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Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontierUnderground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontiercollection in memory of my great aunt, Lucie Palmer. Lucie was an explorer, a naturalist, a keen undersea diver and above all a gifted painter. In the last years of her life, she lost her vision...
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Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1Johnsons Lives of the Poets were written to serve as Introductions to a trade edition of the works of poets whom the booksellers selected for republication. Sometimes, therefore, they dealt briefly with men in whom the public...
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Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1This header should be the first thing seen when anyone starts to view the etext. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information...
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Lives of the English PoetsLives of the English Poets - Gay, Thomson, Young, Gray, &c.This volume contains a record of twenty lives, of which only onethat of Edward Youngis treated at length. It completes our edition of Johnsons Lives of the Poets, from which a few only of...
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