Biography & Autobiography
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Famous Americans of Recent TimesFamous Americans of Recent TimesThe papers contained in this volume were originally published in the North American Review, with four exceptions. Those upon THEODOSIA BURR and JOHN JACOB ASTOR first appeared in Harper's Magazine; that upon COMMODORE VANDERBILT, in the New York Ledger; and...
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An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) I am about to take the back-trail through the Old Westthe West that I knew and loved. All my life it has been a pleasure to show its beauties, its marvels and its possibilities to...
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Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson"I have the feeling that every man's biography is at his own expense. He furnishes not only the facts, but the report. I mean that all biography is autobiography. It is only what he tells of himself that comes to be known...
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George Washington, Volume IIGeorge Washington, Volume IIHaving resigned his commission, Washington stood not upon the order of his going, but went at once to Virginia, and reached Mount Vernon the next day, in season to enjoy the Christmas-tide at home. It was with a deep sigh of...
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George Washington, Volume IGeorge Washington, Volume IFebruary 9 in the year 1800 was a gala day in Paris. Napoleon had decreed a triumphal procession, and on that day a splendid military ceremony was performed in the Champ de Mars, and the trophies of the Egyptian expedition were...
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Katharina von Bora: Geschichtliches LebensbildKatharina von Bora: Geschichtliches LebensbildIn dem Leben Luthers bietet das Kapitel Luthers Huslichkeit als freundliche Idylle ein liebliches Ausruhen von den dramatischen Kmpfen und dem epischen Gange einer reformatorischen Wirksamkeit. Die Briefe an eine liebe Hausfrau sind unter den Tausenden seiner Episteln die schnsten...
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Yesterdays with AuthorsYesterdays with AuthorsJames Fields at age 14 became a clerk in a bookstore in Boston, and in a few years became a junior partner in the bookselling firm of Ticknor, Reed and Fields. The firm of Ticknor and Fields, after many mergers and acquisitions,...
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CavourCavour 'Je suis italien avant tout et c'est pour faire jouir a mon pays du self government l'interieur, come a l'extereur que j'ai entrepuis la rude tache de chasser l'Autriche de l'Italie sans y substituer la domination d'aucune autre Puissance'Cavour to the Marquis Emmanuel...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and LettersThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters Acknowledgement and thanks for permitting the use of the following selections in this volume, viz., "The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth," and "The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots," by Major Martin Hume,...
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Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920)Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920)The American Novel, published last year, undertook to trace the progress of a literary type in the United States from its beginnings to the end of the nineteenth century; Contemporary American Novelists undertakes to study the type as it has existed...
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Recollections of a Long Life: An AutobiographyRecollections of a Long Life: An AutobiographyWashington Irving has somewhere said that it is a happy thing to have been born near some noble mountain or attractive river or lake, which should be a landmark through all the journey of life, and to which...
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George WashingtonGeorge WashingtonTo obviate misunderstanding, it seems well to warn the reader that this book aims only at giving a sketch of George Washington's life and acts. I was interested to discover, if I could, the human residue which I felt sure must persist in...
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Twelve TypesTwelve TypesObjection is often raised against realistic biography because it reveals so much that is important and even sacred about a man's life. The real objection to it will rather be found in the fact that it reveals about a man the precise points...
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Books and Characters French and EnglishBooks and Characters, French & EnglishWhen Ingres painted his vast 'Apotheosis of Homer,' he represented, grouped round the central throne, all the great poets of the ancient and modern worlds, with a single exceptionShakespeare. After some persuasion, he relented so far as to introduce...
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What I Remember, Volume 2What I Remember, Volume 2No! as I said at the end of the last chapter but one, before I was led away by the circumstances of that time to give the world the benefit of my magnetic reminiscencesvaleat quantum!I was not yet bitten, despite...
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Sir Robert HartSir Robert Hart - The Romance of a Great Career, 2nd EditionSeventy-three years ago a little Irish boy lay in his aunt's lap looking out on a strange and mysterious world that his solemn eyes had explored for scarcely ten short days, while she,...
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The Story of the Herschels, a Family of AstronomersThe Story of the Herschels, a Family of Astronomers - Sir William Herschel, Sir John Herschel, Caroline HerschelOn the value of biography it is unnecessary to insist. It is now well understood that we may learn to make our own lives good and honest...
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The Story of My Life: Recollections and ReflectionsThe Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections For years I have contemplated telling this story, and for years I have put off telling it. While I have delayed, my memory has not improved, and my recollections of the past are more hazy and...
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The True George Washington [10th Ed.]The True George Washington [10th Ed.] MINIATURE OF WASHINGTON. By JAMES SHARPLESS Painted for Washington in 1795, and presented by him to Nelly (Calvert) Stuart, widow of John Parke Custis, Washingtons adopted son. Her son George Washington Parke Custis, in whose presence the sittings...
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Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida NarrativesSlave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives"I kaint tell nothin bout slavery times cept what I heared folks talk about. I was too young to remember much but I recleck seein...
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