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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 07: GalbaThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 07: GalbaI. The race of the Caesars became extinct in Nero; an event prognosticated by various signs, two of which were particularly significant. Formerly, when Livia, after her marriage with Augustus, was making a visit to her...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: NeroThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 06: NeroI. Two celebrated families, the Calvini and Aenobarbi, sprung from the race of the Domitii. The Aenobarbi derive both their extraction and their cognomen from one Lucius Domitius, of whom we have this tradition: As he...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 05: ClaudiusThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 05: ClaudiusI. Livia, having married Augustus when she was pregnant, was within three months afterwards delivered of Drusus, the father of Claudius Caesar, who had at first the praenomen of Decimus, but afterwards that of Nero; and...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: CaligulaThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 04: CaligulaI. Germanicus, the father of Caius Caesar, and son of Drusus and the younger Antonia, was, after his adoption by Tiberius, his uncle, preferred to the quaestorship [377] five years before he had attained the legal...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: TiberiusThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 03: TiberiusI. The patrician family of the Claudii (for there was a plebeian family of the same name, no way inferior to the other either in power or dignity) came originally from Regilli, a town of the...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: AugustusThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: AugustusI. That the family of the Octavii was of the first distinction in Velitrae [106], is rendered evident by many circumstances. For in the most frequented part of the town, there was, not long since, a...
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The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius CaesarThe Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius CaesarC. Suetonius Tranquillus was the son of a Roman knight who commanded a legion, on the side of Otho, at the battle which decided the fate of the empire in favour of Vitellius. From incidental...
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The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New YorkThe Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New YorkA true story of a life I give you; not in its completion, for it is still unfinished. The romance of youth has lingered through all the later years and the tragedy...
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Fletcher of MadeleyFletcher of MadeleyThere is a great difference between a red-hot man and a Red-hot Library book We have no desire at all to pander to the common idea of our day that it does not matter what you belong to, by any of these...
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The Making of an AmericanThe Making of an AmericanThe papers which form this autobiography were originally published in The Outlook, the chapter telling of my going "home to mother" in The Churchman, and parts of one or two others in The Century Magazine. To those who have been...
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Louis Agassiz: His Life and CorrespondenceLouis Agassiz: His Life and CorrespondenceI am aware that this book has neither the fullness of personal narrative, nor the closeness of scientific analysis, which its too comprehensive title might lead the reader to expect. A word of explanation is therefore needed. I thought...
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Works of John Bunyan — CompleteWorks of John Bunyan — CompleteIt is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their estates...
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Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03It is sad to see how the most of men neglect their precious souls, turning their backs upon the glorious gospel, and little minding a crucified Jesus, when, in the meanwhile, their bodies are well provided for, their...
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Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02Though this be a small treatise, yet it doth present thee with things of the greatest and most weighty concernment, even with a discourse of life and death to eternity: opening, and clearing, by the scriptures of God,...
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Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 When the Philistine giant, Goliath, mocked the host of Israel, and challenged any of their stern warriors to single combat, what human being could have imagined that the gigantic heathen would be successfully met in the mortal...
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Memoirs of My Life and WritingsMemoirs of My Life and Writings In the fifty-second year of my age, after the completion of an arduous and successful work, I now propose to employ some moments of my leisure in reviewing the simple transactions of a private and literary life. Truth,...
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An Autobiography of Anthony TrollopeAn Autobiography of Anthony TrollopeIt may be well that I should put a short preface to this book. In the summer of 1878 my father told me that he had written a memoir of his own life. He did not speak about it at...
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10 Englishmen of the 19th CenturyTen Englishmen of the Nineteenth CenturyThe opening of the nineteenth century found England in the midst of a great foreign war, which for almost a generation absorbed the thought and energy of the nation, and postponed for the time the vital questions of economic...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 6Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 6.When news of Sherman being in possession of Savannah reached the North, distinguished statesmen and visitors began to pour in to see him. Among others who went was the Secretary of War, who seemed much pleased at...
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 5Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 5.The Mattapony River is formed by the junction of the Mat, the Ta, the Po and the Ny rivers, the last being the northernmost of the four. It takes its rise about a mile south and a...
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