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A good play gives us in miniature a cross-section of life, heightened by plot and characterisation, by witty and compact dialogue.
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Back of the Virginia Clemenses is a dim procession of ancestors stretching back to Noah's time.
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Frederick Douglass lived so long, and played so conspicuous a part on the world's stage, that it would be impossible, in a work of the size of this, to do more than touch upon the salient features of his career, to suggest the respects in which he influenced the course of events in his lifetime, and to epitomize for the readers of another generation the judgment of his contemporaries as to his genius and his character.
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Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. A True Story by L. A. Abbott
SOME one has said that if any man would faithfully write his autobiography, giving truly his own history and experiences, the ills and joys, the haps and mishaps that had fallen to his lot, he could not fail to make an interesting story; and Disraeli makes Sidonia say that there is romance in every life. How much romance, as well as sad reality, there is in the life of a man who, among other experiences, has married seven wives, and has been seven times in prison-solely on account of the seven wives, may be learned from the pages that follow.
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It was more than six hundred years ago that a little peasant baby was born in the small village of Vespignano, not far from the beautiful city of Florence, in Italy.
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THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it.
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The fourth decade of the deceased century dawned on a procession of Oriental pilgrims, variously qualified or disqualified to hold the gorgeous East in fee, who, with bakshish in their purses, a theory in their brains, an unfilled diary-book in their portmanteaus, sought out the Holy Land, the Sinai peninsula, the valley of the Nile, sometimes even Armenia and the Monte Santo, and returned home to emit their illustrated and mapped octavos.
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Such letters of Mr. Browning's as appear, whole or in part, in the present volume have been in most cases given to me by the persons to whom they were addressed, or copied by Miss Browning from the originals under her care; but I owe to the daughter of the Rev. W. J. Fox—Mrs. Bridell Fox—those written to her father and to Miss Flower; the two interesting extracts from her father's correspondence with herself and Mr. Browning's note to Mr. Robertson.
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It has been thought that all the works published under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell were, in reality, the production of one person.
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The preparation of this volume began with a period of delightful research work in a great musical library.
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IN one of his letters to his great-aunt, Alexandra Andreyevna Tolstoy, my father gives the following description of his children:
The eldest [Sergei] is fair-haired and good-looking; there is something weak and patient in his expression, and very gentle.
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Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Irwin L. Gordon
THE editor begs leave to inform the public that only persons who can produce proper evidence of their demise will be admitted to Who Was Who.
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Elbert Hubbard is dead, or should we say, has gone on his last Little Journey to the Great Beyond.
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Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices & Priorities of a Winning Life by Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker
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Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. A True Story by L. A. Abbott
SOME one has said that if any man would faithfully write his autobiography, giving truly his own history and experiences, the ills and joys, the haps and mishaps that had fallen to his lot, he could not fail to make an interesting story; and Disraeli makes Sidonia say that there is romance in every life. How much romance, as well as sad reality, there is in the life of a man who, among other experiences, has married seven wives, and has been seven times in prison-solely on account of the seven wives, may be learned from the pages that follow.
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Leibniz, dit-on, ne faisait cas de la science que parce qu'elle lui donnait le droit d'être écouté quand il parlait de philosophie et de religion.
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Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. by C. Raymond Beazley
Arabic science constitutes one of the main links between the older learned world of the Greeks and Latins and the Europe of Henry the Navigator and of the Renaissance.
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It has been thought that all the works published under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell were, in reality, the production of one person.
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In the old legend of Rip Van Winkle with which the American writer Washington Irving has made us so familiar, the ne'er-do-weel Rip wanders off into the Kaatskill Mountains with his dog and gun in order to escape from his wife's scolding tongue.
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The year 1809—that year which gave William E. Gladstone to England—was in our country the birth-year of him who wears the most distinguished name that has yet been written on the pages of American history—ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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In order to emphasise the importance of the reforms introduced into astronomy by Kepler, it will be well to sketch briefly the history of the theories which he had to overthrow.
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Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard Fleury de Chaboulon
The revolution of the 20th of March will form unquestionably the most remarkable episode in the life of Napoleon, so fertile as it is in supernatural events.
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The life of Francis Bacon is one which it is a pain to write or to read.
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A poet who flourished in the reign of Charles I. but of whose birth and life we can recover no particulars.
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A French gentleman, born and educated at Rohan, in Normandy. He came over into England, was a considerable trader, and resided here many years.
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EUSTACE BUDGELL, Esq;
was the eldest son of Gilbert Budgell, D.D. of St. Thomas near Exeter, by his first wife Mary, the only daughter of Dr. William Gulston, bishop of Bristol; whose sister Jane married dean Addison, and was mother to the famous Mr. Addison the secretary of state.
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NY sunny afternoon, on Fifth Avenue, or at night in the table d'hote restaurants of University Place, you may meet the soldier of fortune who of all his brothers in arms now living is the most remarkable.
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It is natural to believe in great men.
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A good play gives us in miniature a cross-section of life, heightened by plot and characterisation, by witty and compact dialogue.
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Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry; with intimate details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV by Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
Up to the time of the Du Barry the court of France had been the stage where the whole political and human drama of that country was enacted.
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Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself by Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
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"If Sally Ann knows more about weaving than Elijah," reasoned eleven-year-old Susan with her father, "then why don't you make her overseer?"
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A French writer has recently published a careful and interesting volume on the famous events which ended in the overthrow of Robespierre and the close of the Reign of Terror.
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The dawn of the life of the great and famous man who is our subject in these memoirs has been depicted with homely simplicity by his own hand.
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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.
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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.
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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 reality a German. But the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Catharine II. resemble each other in something else.
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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 round, and every one who saw the inscription chuckled and said: "They've got it on you, old hoss!" The three letters meant "gone to Texas"; and for any man to go to Texas in those days meant his moral, mental, and financial dilapidation.
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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.
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In the seventeenth century it was not the custom to publish two volumes upon every man or woman whose name had appeared on a title-page.
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IN reading biographies I always skip the genealogical details. To be born obscure and to die famous has been described as the acme of human felicity.
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George Henry Borrow was born at Dumpling Green near East Dereham, Norfolk, on the 5th of July 1803. It pleased him to state on many an occasion that he was born at East Dereham.
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Francis Bacon, in one of his prose fragments, draws a memorable distinction between "arts mechanical" and "sciences of conceit."
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It was more than six hundred years ago that a little peasant baby was born in the small village of Vespignano, not far from the beautiful city of Florence, in Italy.
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Harriet Beecher (Stowe) was born June 14, 1811, in the characteristic New England town of Litchfield, Conn.
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THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it.
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On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England.
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"Sir John Maundeville, Kt.," was his prototype, and Father Prout was his patron saint. The one introduced him to the study of British balladry, the other led him to the classic groves of Horace.
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In the loving "Memory" which his brother Roswell contributed to the "Sabine Edition" of Eugene Field's "Little Book of Western Verse," he says: "Comradeship was the indispensable factor in my brother's life. It was strong in his youth: it grew to be an imperative necessity in later life. In the theory that it is sometimes good to be alone he had little or no faith."
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The fourth decade of the deceased century dawned on a procession of Oriental pilgrims, variously qualified or disqualified to hold the gorgeous East in fee, who, with bakshish in their purses, a theory in their brains, an unfilled diary-book in their portmanteaus, sought out the Holy Land, the Sinai peninsula, the valley of the Nile, sometimes even Armenia and the Monte Santo, and returned home to emit their illustrated and mapped octavos.
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We have in the portfolio of du Maurier the epic of the drawing-room. Many of the Victorians, including the Queen, and Alfred Lord Tennyson, seem to have viewed life from the drawing-room window.
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