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The Mirrors Of Washington
[english | ]Anonymous
Excerpts: [... state and national, but never a candidate for office. Personal representative of President Wilson to the European governments in 1914, 1915, and 1916 ...... experience in the Great War remarked, In the last war we were lacking in trained non-coms it would be a good idea to train a lot of them.. Yes, ...... or in the whole world, if you will. I should always go first to the three or ...]
Genres: [politics | history | biography] Downloads: 496
The Narrative Of Sojourner Truth
[english | ]Anonymous
Excerpts: [... work of Laura LeVine, Margaret Sylvia, and Mary Mark Ockerbloom. The Narrative of Sojourner Truth. Dictated by Sojourner Truth (ca.1797-1883) ...... than a walk-but the weather was warm and pleasant, and he did not dislike the journey. When Isabella addressed him, he recognized her voice, and was ...... to one John Nealy, of Ulster County, New York and she has an impression that in ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 238
Lineage Life And Labors Of Jos Rizal Philippine Patriot
[english | ]Austin Craig
Excerpts: [... setting of detail, Rizal has been portrayed from every side and the reader must leave the biography with a knowledge of the elements that entered ...... of a settled policy. Such instances are rather to be classed among the mistakes to which governments as well as individuals are liable. Yet even such ...... to stir up trouble. One of the last native Chinese emperors, not wishing ...]
Genres: [history | biography] Downloads: 41
Charles Lamb A Memoir
[english | ]Barry Cornwall
Summary: [Denis Duval -- Lovel the widower -- The wolves and the lamb -- Little travels and road-side sketches.]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 153
Lord George Bentinck
[english | ]Benjamin Disraeli
Excerpts: [... requests to him to take office were equally in vain. Lord George, therefore, was an original and hearty supporter of the Reform Bill, and he continued ...... the experience of the last three years justified the reversal of the system which the existing administration had been summoned to office to uphold, ...... and rapidly increasing at the rate of three hundred thousand a-year, ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 350
Autobiography Of Ma Ka Tai Me She Kia Kiak Or Black Hawk
[english | ]Black Hawk
Excerpts: [... arose among them, in consequence of so much power being given to Nanamakee, he being so young a man. To quiet them, Nanamakee, during a violent ...... we gave him meat and such other provisions as we could spare. We were well pleased with the speech of the young chief. He gave us good advice and said ...... did the Great Spirit ever send the whites to this island to drive us from ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 178
Claudius
[english | ]C Suetonius Tranquillus
Summary: [Claudius by Douglas Jackson. Claudius desires total conquest. Caratacus will fight for freedom. An epic battle is coming in this second gripping and visceral novel of the Roman invasion of Britain for fans of Conn Iggulden and Simon Scarrow. 43 AD in Southern Britain Caratacus chief of the Britons watches from a hilltop as the scarlet cloaks of the Roman army spread across his land like blood. ...]
Genres: [history | biography] Downloads: 204
Domitian
[english | ]C Suetonius Tranquillus
Excerpts: [... his father's and brother's carriage, as often as they went abroad but he attended them in their triumph for the conquest of Judaea [800], mounted ...... after his advancement, his wife Domitia, by whom he had a son in his second consulship, and whom the year following he complimented with the title of ...... at which he presided in his sandals, dressed in a purple robe, made after ...]
Genres: [history | biography] Downloads: 423
Galba
[english | ]C Suetonius Tranquillus
Excerpts: [... the Villa of the Hens [640]. The laurel groves flourished so much, that the Caesars procured thence the boughs and crowns they bore at their triumphs. ...... and Brutus in the conspiracy against him, for which he was condemned by the Pedian law. From him were descended the grandfather and father of the emperor ...... that when he came once, amongst other boys of his own age, to pay ...]
Genres: [history | biography] Downloads: 285
Lives Of The Grammarians And Rhetoricians
[english | ]C Suetonius Tranquillus
Excerpts: [... for the earliest men of learning, who were both poets and orators, may be considered as half-Greek: I speak of Livius [844] and Ennius [845], who ...... and shortly afterwards made a freedman and that Lucius Apuleius, who was taken into the pay of Epicius Calvinus, a wealthy Roman knight, at ...... one of these, whose name was Princeps, to take alternate days for declaiming and ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 300
Lives Of The Poets
[english | ]C Suetonius Tranquillus
Excerpts: [... Caesars, Volume 14. [LIVES OF THE POETS]. Author: C. Suetonius Tranquillus. Release Date: August, 2004 [EBook #6399]. [This file was first ...... while he thinks of being a constant guest at the table of Furius, and the handsome Laelius while he thinks that he is fondly loved by them, and often ...... prevailed in aftertimes. Quintus Memmius, in his speech in his own defence, says ...]
Genres: [poetry | biography | history] Downloads: 41
Nero
[english | ]C Suetonius Tranquillus
Summary: [The Minds of Marginalized Black Men is a non-fiction book written by Alford A. Young Jr. Young explores the lives of impoverished young black men living in the near New West Side of Chicago in order to get a better understanding of how they view their lives and what they want for their futures.]
Genres: [history | biography] Downloads: 276
Otho
[english | ]C Suetonius Tranquillus
Excerpts: [... The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Volume 8. [OTHO]. Author: C. Suetonius Tranquillus. >. THE LIVES OF THE TWELVE CAESARS. By ...... palace an honour which had been conferred but upon very few before him. And Claudius advanced him to the dignity of a patrician, commending him, at ...... to that of the emperor or, as some say, by the reciprocal practice of mutual pollution. He had so ...]
Genres: [history | biography] Downloads: 193
Life In Canada Fifty Years Ago
[english | ]Canniff Haight
Summary: [Life In Canada Fifty Years Ago by Canniff Haight. An excerpt I was born in the County of ---- Upper Canada on the 4th day of June in the early part of this present century. I have no recollection of my entry into the world though I was present when the great event occurred but I have every reason to believe the date given is correct for I have it from my mother and father who were there at the ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 40
The Case Of Mrs Clive
[english | ]Catherine Clive
Excerpts: [... Los Angeles Arthur Friedman, University of Chicago Louis A. Landa, Princeton University Earl Miner, Princeton University Samuel H. Monk, University ...... her performances and long tenure at Drury Lane (she retired in 1769) and documented by the panegyrics of Fielding, Murphy, Churchill, Garrick, Dr. Johnson, ...... burst of loud laughter, the audience was sure to accompany her [my ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 91
Life Of Daniel Boone The Great Western Hunter And Pioneer
[english | ]Cecil Harley
Excerpts: [... of Boone and to a certain extent, as Mr. Wheeler intimates, his character was that of his times and of his associates. It was during the residence ...... River, a branch of the Staunton, now in Bedford County, Va. The route pursued was along the Great Path to the centre of the Cherokee nation. The traders ...... when my brother, to my great felicity, met me according to appointment,...]
Genres: [biography | history | adventure] Downloads: 388
Journaux Intimes
[french | ]Charles Baudelaire
Excerpts: [... ces cris, ces rles. Qui ne les a rs, qui ne les a irrsistiblement extorqus. Et que trouvez-vous de pire dans la question applique par de soigneux ...... d’une vie pre et prie, prie sans cesse. La prire est rservoir de force. (Autel de la volont. Dynamique morale. La sorcellerie des sacrements. ...... paresse, de la rverie, de la fainantise, au point de renvoyer sans cesse au ...]
Genres: [biography | non fiction] Downloads: 90
The Progressive Democracy Of James M Cox
[english | ]Charles Morris
Summary: [The Progressive Democracy Of James M Cox by Charles E Morris. This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.]
Genres: [biography | politics] Downloads: 371