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The Life Of Admiral Viscount Exmouth
[english | 1854]Edward Osler
Summary: [Havent read the book. However Mr. Homers review of this book seems to contain some false information. I am unable to verify any of it so far...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 39
My Life Or The Adventures Of Geo Thompson
[english | 1854]George Thompson
Summary: [My Life Or The Adventures Of Geo Thompson by George Thompson. First published 1854.]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 32
Lives Of The Three Mrs Judsons
[english | 1855]Arabella Stuart
Excerpts: [... with advantages for improving my mind, I felt that I should be like the slothful servant if I neglected them. I therefore diligently employed all my hours ...... been out only one hundred and twelve days. We could distinguish nothing but the lowering mountains of Golconda. Yesterday we were nearer land . and the ...... he must have acquired incalculable merit, or he would not now ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 479
Anselme Adorne
[french | 1855]E De La Coste
Excerpts: [... eurent place aux tats et les effacrent bientt, sous la clbre dnomination des trois membres. L tait dsormais la puissance. Plusieurs familles nobles, ...... anciens allis et nagure les siens, deux questions s'agitaient entre lui et les Brugeois: l'une tait un vieux litige au sujet de l'cluse, poste important ...... Rapprochs par l'asile que Louis avait trouv, comme dauphin, dans les ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 283
Life Of Charlotte Bront
[english | 1857]Elizabeth Gaskell
Excerpts: [... disapproves of couching. Papa displayed extraordinary patience and firmness the surgeons seemed surprised. I was in the room all the time as it was ...... to lose money, time after time, in this way but where is the use of dwelling on such subjects. It will make him no better.. December 28th. I ...... spirit seems to preside at - Street, to that which guides the helm at 65, ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 150
Martin Behaim Aus Nrnberg
[german | 1859]Alexander Ziegler
Excerpts: [... die Schwarze genannt, - daher der Name Schwarzbach, - wohnten. Im neunten Jahrhundert wandten sie sich um der Religion willen aus Bhmen nach Nrnberg, ...... und verbrgten Nachrichten und Thatsachen auf eine Theilnahme Behaim's an den Entdeckungsreisen jener Periode zu schlieen. Wir werden im Folgenden ...... (von 1486 bis 1490 und 1494 bis 1506) liefert aber gerade einen wichtigen ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 487
Correspondence Conversations Of Alexis De Tocqueville With
[english | 1859]Alexis De Tocqueville
Excerpts: [... Length of speeches French public men Lamartine Falloux Foreign French Narvaez and Kossuth French conversers Montalembert Monsieur, Madame, and Mademoiselle ...... from the tribune appeared often strange, but coming from so honest a man we accepted them. One falsehood, however, after another was exposed, and ...... of democracy, I think that it would have been easier to attack the ...]
Genres: [biography | correspondence] Downloads: 298
The Exploits And Triumphs In Europe Of Paul Morphy
[english | 1859]Frederick Milnes Edge
Excerpts: [... to rank with the finest master-pieces of chess strategy. Benignant fate brought the young hero safely to New York, some two days before the assembling ...... become personally acquainted with one whom we have so long admired, than by the very natural anxiety to ascertain the strength of our American players ...... that Mr. Walker means skittles, finally awaked to consciousness, and,...]
Genres: [games | biography] Downloads: 414
Reminiscences Of The Military Life And Sufferings Of Col
[english | 1860]Charles Hersey
Summary: [Cover title: The story of an emigrant.]
Genres: [biography | war | history] Downloads: 148
Discourse Of The Life And Character Of The Hon
[english | 1860]Hugh Blair Grigsby
Summary: [Discourse Of The Life And Character Of The Hon Littleton Waller Tazewell by Hugh Blair Grigsby. Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell is presented here in a high quality kindle edition. This popular classic work by Hugh Blair Grigsby is in the English language. If you enjoy the works of Hugh Blair Grigsby then we highly recommend this publication for your book ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 330
Memoir Of Old Elizabeth A Coloured Woman
[english | 1863]Anonymous
Excerpts: [... Bible aloud to his children every sabbath morning. At these seasons, when I was but five years old, I often felt the overshadowing of the Lord's Spirit, ...... my heart with ponderous weight, and seemed to add to my grief. I went back repeating as I went, none but God in the wide world. On reaching the ...... for mercy, thinking I was about to be plunged to the belly of hell, and ...]
Genres: [biography | african american studies] Downloads: 16
Life Of Chopin
[english | 1863]Franz Liszt
Summary: [Life Of Chopin by Franz Liszt. Life of Chopin is a biography of Chopin by Franz Liszt. Fr ed eric Chopin 1 March 1810 - 17 October 1849 was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period. He is widely regarded as one of the world s great composers for piano. Chopin was born in the village of Zelazowa Wola in the Duchy of Warsaw to a French-expatriate father and a Polish mother and ...]
Genres: [biography | music] Downloads: 307
Diary From November 12 1862 To October 18 1863
[english | 1864]Adam De Gurowski
Excerpts: [... is required to make a capable captain, more especially in such times as those in which we are living. It is said that his staff is well organized God ...... by nature for a scheming and adroit politician.****. Dec. 10.-The Congress feels the ground, hesitates, and apparently lacks the necessary energy ...... From this sweeping and terribly true charge, however, we must except the ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 372
French Life
[english | 1864]Elizabeth Gaskell
Summary: [French Life by Elizabeth Gaskell. Excerpt Paris February 1862. We went to-day along the Boulevard S evastopol Rive Gauche to pay a call. I knew the district well about six years ago when it was a network of narrow tortuous streets the houses high irregular picturesque historical dirty and unhealthy. I used to have much difficulty in winding my way to certain points in the Quartier Latin from the ...]
Genres: [travel | biography | essays] Downloads: 100
Memoir Of Jared Sparks Ll D
[english | 1867]Brantz Mayer
Summary: [Memoir Webster S Spanish Thesaurus Edition by Fr Vincent De Paul. Webster s edition of this classic is organized to expose the reader to a maximum number of synonyms and antonyms for difficult and often ambiguous English words that are encountered in other works of literature conversation or academic examinations. Extremely rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority in ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 26
Scenas De Viagem
[english | 1868]Alfredo Descragnolle Taunay
Excerpts: [... erros corrigidos. Rita Farinha (Setembro 2010). SCENAS DE VIAGEM. EXPLORAO. entre os rios Taquary e Aquidauana no districto de Miranda. MEMORIA ...... uma d'essas palmeiras tem o tronco coberto de disticos, infelizmente quasi todos apagados. N'um d'elles pudemos comtudo decifrar o genero de amabilidades ...... que nunca correu naturalmente pelo espirito de quem[13] lhe deu o nome, ...]
Genres: [biography | history] Downloads: 72
Behind The Scenes
[english | 1868]Elizabeth Keckley
Summary: [The Rising: Selected Scenes From The End Of The World is a short story collection set in the world of the Rising written by Brian Keene.]
Genres: [african american studies | biography] Downloads: 266
A History Of The Army Experience Of William A Canfield
[english | 1869]William Canfield
Summary: [A History of is a 1971 non-fiction book by physicist Petr Beckmann that presents a laymans introduction to the concept of the mathematical constant Pi. Beckmann was a Czechoslovakian who fled the Communist regime to come to the United States his dislike of authority gives A History of a style that belies its dry title. For example his chapter on the era following the classical age of ancient ...]
Genres: [war | biography] Downloads: 25
A Biographical Sketch Of The Life And Character Of Joseph
[english | 1869]Charlotte Taylor Blow Charless
Excerpts: [... so long shrouded them-–and come forth, more beautiful than the hyacinth, to bloom forever on the borders of the river of life. And may you, my sweet ...... off excepting a little bunch on the top of their heads which they reserved as a fastening for their feathers and other head ornaments, of which they ...... of it. There is a Friend who sticketh closer than a brother, to ...]
Genres: [biography | correspondence] Downloads: 68
A Brief Memoir
[english | 1869]Eliza Southall
Summary: [Lucky is a 1999 memoir by Alice Sebold author of The Lovely Bones. The memoir describes her experiences of being raped and how the experience shaped the rest of her life.]
Genres: [biography | poetry] Downloads: 99