Biography & Autobiography
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Life and Letters of Robert BrowningLife and Letters of Robert Browning for SecrecyMarriageJourney to ItalyExtract of Letter from Mr. FoxMrs. Browning's Letters to Miss MitfordLife at PisaVallombrosaFlorence; Mr. Powers; Miss BoyleProposed British Mission to the VaticanFather ProutPalazzo GuidiFano; Ancona'A Blot in the 'Scutcheon' at Sadler's Wells. SonMrs. Browning's Letters...
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersGrace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersOR, BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLISHING THIS WORK. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR THEREOF, AND DEDICATED TO THOSE WHOM GOD HATH COUNTED HIM WORTHY TO BEGET TO FAITH, BY HIS MINISTRY IN THE WORD Children, Grace be with you....
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Pictures from ItalyPictures from ItalyIf the readers of this volume will be so kind as to take their credentials for the different places which are the subject of its authors reminiscences, from the Author himself, perhaps they may visit them, in fancy, the more agreeably, and...
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialRobert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialMy little effort to make Thoreau better known in England had one result that I am pleased to think of. It brought me into personal association with R. L. Stevenson, who had written and published...
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Running a Thousand Miles for FreedomRunning a Thousand Miles for Freedom - Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from SlaveryHAVING heard while in Slavery that "God made of one blood all nations of men," and also that the American Declaration of Independence says, that "We hold these...
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The Life of Me: An AutobiographyThe Life of Me: An AutobiographyThis writing grew out of a request from my daughter, Anita, that I write to her concerning me, my family, my parents and their families; how we lived, how we grew up; our ideals, our customs, and our social...
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Travels with a Donkey in the CevennesTravels with a Donkey in the CevennesThe journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan...
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Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and PeopleCourt Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People Until within the past ten years a study of Chinese court life would have been an impossibility. The Emperor, the Empress Dowager, and the court ladies were shut up within the Forbidden City, away...
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Life and Adventures of Calamity JaneLife and Adventures of Calamity JaneMy maiden name was Marthy Cannary. I was born in Princeton, Missourri, May 1st, 1852. Father and mother were natives of Ohio. I had two brothers and three sisters, I being the oldest of the children. As a child...
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She Stands AccusedShe Stands Accused Being a Series of Accounts of the Lives and Deeds of Notorious Women, Murderesses, Cheats, Cozeners, on whom Justice was Executed, and of others who, Accused of Crimes, were Acquitted at least in Law; Drawn from Authenticated Sources TO RAFAEL SABATINI...
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James Nasmyth, Engineer: An AutobiographyJames Nasmyth, Engineer: An AutobiographyPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. This etext (jnasm10.txt) is the...
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A Book of Remarkable CriminalsA Book of Remarkable Criminals "The silent workings, and still more the explosions, of human passion which bring to light the darker elements of man's nature present to the philosophical observer considerations of intrinsic interest; while to the jurist, the study of human nature...
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Miracle Mongers and Their MethodsMiracle Mongers and Their Methods - A Complete Exposé of the Modus Operandi of Fire Eaters, Heat Resisters, Poison Eaters, Venomous Reptile Defiers, Sword Swallowers, Human Ostriches, Strong Men, Etc. "All wonder," said Samuel Johnson, "is the effect of novelty on ignorance." Yet we...
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John Jacob AstorJohn Jacob AstorThe man who makes it the habit of his life to go to bed at nine o'clock, usually gets rich and is always reliable. Of course, going to bed does not make him richI merely mean that such a man will in...
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Appreciations of Richard Harding DavisAppreciations of Richard Harding Davis He was almost too good to be true. In addition, the gods loved him, and so he had to die young. Some people think that a man of fifty-two is middle-aged. But if R. H. D. had lived to...
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Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding DavisAdventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Richard Harding Davis was born in Philadelphia on April 18, 1864, but, so far as memory serves me, his life and mine began together several years later in the three-story brick house on South Twenty-first Street, to...
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Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool MakersIndustrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool MakersThe Author offers the following book as a continuation, in a more generally accessible form, of the Series of Memoirs of Industrial Men introduced in his Lives of the Engineers. While preparing that work he frequently came across...
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Memories and PortraitsMemories and PortraitsThis volume of papers, unconnected as they are, it will be better to read through from the beginning, rather than dip into at random. A certain thread of meaning binds them. Memories of childhood and youth, portraits of those who have gone...
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Kansas Women in LiteratureKansas Women in Literature The last place one would expect to find romance is in arithmetic and yetMiss Effie Graham, the head of the Department of Mathematics in the Topeka High School, has found it there and better still, in her lecture "Living Arithmetic"...
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The Story of a PioneerThe Story of a Pioneer My father's ancestors were the Shaws of Rothiemurchus, in Scotland, and the ruins of their castle may still be seen on the island of Loch-an-Eilan, in the northern Highlands. It was never the picturesque castle of song and story,...
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