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Künstler-Monographien: VDürerDer vorliegende Text wurde anhand der 1897 erschienenen Buchausgabe so weit wie mglich originalgetreu wiedergegeben. Typographische Fehler wurden stillschweigend korrigiert. Ungewhnliche und altertmliche Schreibweisen, sowie regionale Ausdrcke, insbesondere in Zitaten aus Drers Zeit, bleiben gegenber dem Original unverndert; fremdsprachliche Zitate wurden nicht korrigiert. Passagen...
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William Hamilton Gibson: artist—naturalist—authorWilliam Hamilton Gibson: artist—naturalist—authorTHREE men have done more than any others to inspire our generation with the love of nature. They are Henry D. Thoreau, John Burroughs, and William Hamilton Gibson. Thoreau, when the generation was young, challenged it to come out of doors,...
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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 4 (of 7)The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 4 (of 7)Engraved by J. Mollison.DAGUESSEAU.(From am original Picture by Mignardi in thepossession of the Conntesa Segur.)Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.London. Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street, & Pall Mall...
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Presiding Ladies of the White HousePresiding Ladies of the White House - containing biographical appreciations together with a short history of the Executive mansion and a treatise on its etiquette and customsAmerica stands to-day among the greatest and most progressive of the nations of the earth; and as the...
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Lord PalmerstonLord PalmerstonIN looking for material on which to base this short memoir of Lord Palmerston I have of course taken, as my guide to his general life, the biography of Mr. Evelyn Ashley.[A] I have also referred to the unfinished volumes by Lord Dalling,...
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Life of Robert Stevenson, Civil EngineerLife of Robert Stevenson, Civil EngineerThe addresses made to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Institution of Civil Engineers, at the opening meetings of the session1851, contained obituary notices of Robert Stevenson. The late Alan Stevenson, his eldest son, also wrote a short...
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The Historical Christ;The Historical Christ; - Or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. SmithThis little volume was written in the spring of the year 1913, and is intended as a plea for moderation and good...
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My Memory of GladstoneMy Memory of GladstoneSince the appearance of the first volumes of Macaulays History there has not been such an event in the publishing world as the appearance of a Life of Gladstone by Mr. Morley. Nor has public expectation been disappointed. Though I saw...
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In the WorldIn the WorldI went out into the world as "shop-boy" at a fashionable boot-shop in the main street of the town. My master was a small, round man. He had a brown, rugged face, green teeth, and watery, mud-colored eyes. At first I thought...
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Francis ParkmanFrancis Parkman. "One of the convincing tests of genius is the choice of a theme, and no greater felicity can befall it than to find one both familiar and fresh. All the better if tradition, however attenuated, have made it already friendly with our...
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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 6 (of 7)The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 6 (of 7)Very little is known concerning the youth of Sir Walter Raleigh. He was a younger son, descended of an ancient family, and was born at a farm called Hayes, near the mouth of the river...
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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 5 (of 7)The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 5 (of 7)Engraved by W. Holl.JEREMY TAYLOR.From the original Picture in the Hall of All Souls College, Oxford.Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street. If this...
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Boys Who Became Famous MenBoys Who Became Famous Men - Stories of the Childhood of Poets, Artists, and MusiciansOne summer morning, long ago, a small boy guarded his father's sheep on a hillside in the Apennines. Up and down the stony pasture he trod, driving back the lambs...
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Society as I Have Found ItSociety as I Have Found It{30} {31} After my marriage I took up my residence in Newport, buying a farm on Narragansett Bay and turning farmer in good earnest. I planted out 10,000 trees on that farm and then went to Europe to let...
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Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch TolstoiReminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch TolstoiReminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi, by Maxim Gorky, was originally published in Russian in Petrograd in 1919. The first half of the book, consisting of notes, had been written between 1900 and 1901, when Tolstoi, Gorky, and Tchekhov were living...
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An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael ScotAn Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael ScotAfter some considerable time spent in making collections for the work which is now submitted to the public, I became aware that a biography of Michael Scot was in existence which had been composed as...
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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7)The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7)Engraved by R. Woodman.ERSKINE.From the original Picture by Hoppnerin his Majestys Collection at Windsor.Under the Superintendance of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.London, Published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street, & Pall Mall East....
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Aatteiden mies: Piirteitä August Fredrik Soldanin elämästäAatteiden mies: Piirteitä August Fredrik Soldanin elämästä3. Insinriupseerina Dnaburgissa. Sietmttmi oloja. Valtion varas. Kaipausta parempiin oloihin. "Tahtoisin oppia ajattelemaan." Lohduttava kirje islle. Alakuloisuutta ja sisllisi taisteluita. Onnuz ja Ahriman. Vnrikki August Tavaststjerna. Frans Liszt. Kynti Afzeliuksen luona Wendeniss. Siirtyminen Pietariin. 4. Apuopettajana Sota-akatemiassa. Keltussa....
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Cartoons and Caricatures of Seattle CitizensCartoons and Caricatures of Seattle CitizensOur hard-headed and far-figuring men of business have been quick to see and seize the truth of this great law of supply and demand. Being themselves alert men of the market place, and appreciating fully the melancholy worlds urgent...
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The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 2 (of 7)The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 2 (of 7)Engraved by T. A. Dean.LORD CHANCELLOR SOMERS.From a Picture by Sir G. Kneller,in the possession of the Royal Society.Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.London, Published by Charles Knight, Pall...
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