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Celsissimus
[german | 1900]Arthur Achleitner
Excerpts: [... Jahres gab den Unterthanen hiervon einen Begriff, die unerhrte Pracht, welche selbst der unbarmherzige Salzburger Regen nicht zu beeintrchtigen vermochte, ...... der abgenommenen Kriminalgerichtsbarkeit auszunutzen. Vorsichtig brachte Alt hervor: Wenn wir in schuldiger Ehrfurcht eines vom gndigen Herrn ...... von Rubern, nicht ein Schatten zeigte sich in den wie ausgestorben ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 484
Hugh
[english | 1916]Arthur Christopher Benson
Excerpts: [... 2006 [eBook #18615]. E-text prepared by Stacy Brown, Geoff Horton, and the (/). Note: also has an HTML version of this file which includes the ...... At the foot of the stairs a door on the right takes you into a small sitting-room, with a huge stone fireplace a big window looks south, past the ...... a story less characteristic both of Hugh's own attitude of mind as well as of the ...]
Genres: [biography | religion] Downloads: 63
Memoirs Of Arthur Hamilton B A Of Trinity College
[english | 1886]Arthur Christopher Benson
Excerpts: [... in my work. The night before he left the school I was sitting there, and just before I went away, being rather overcome with regretful sentiments, he ...... love for right but I was fastidious, and that kept me from being riotous, and undemonstrative, which made me pure. . Chapter Ii.CHAPTER II. Arthur ...... persuasiveness it is a wonderful document. But this letter of his ...]
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The Altar Fire
[english | 1907]Arthur Christopher Benson
Excerpts: [... confessions into his books, but he was in many ways more interesting than his books, and so I will try and draw a portrait of him as he appeared to ...... in some cases it proceeds, I think, from a hysterical desire to be thought interesting, with a faint hope, I fear, of being possibly put into ...... clothes, the bright tie thrust loosely through a cameo ring his loose shaggy ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 195
Nicolas Foucquet Surintendant Des Finances
[french | 1890]Arthur De Marsy
Excerpts: [... a initis la question si dlicate des Rvolutions des Pays-Bas, M. Pallain a dvoil une partie des secrets que renferme la correspondance de Talleyrand, ...... de Normandie pendant la Ligue, a su mettre it, dans son nouvel ouvrage, son exprience des affaires et les connaissances pratiques qu'il lui a ...... comme les De Haussy, de Pronne, les terriers et les archives particulires, M. J....]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 15
Dante His Times And His Work
[english | 1895]Arthur John Butler
Excerpts: [... of literature in several languages, and very various in quality but for the comfort of the young student, it may at once, and once for all, be stated ...... East evoked it in Europeans. [5] When the summer was come, and the flowers sprang joyously up through the grass, right there the birds were singing ...... its leaders, and others with the Uberti, who were head of the Ghibelines....]
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Casanovas Heimfahrt
[german | 1918]Arthur Schnitzler
Excerpts: [... zehn und acht . Also noch keines in den Jahren, sich - mit Verlaub - sich - von Casanova das Kpfchen verdrehen zu lassen. Er lachte gutmtig und machte ...... die beiden Mnner die staubige, im sengenden Mittagsglanz daliegende Strae ins Land hinausfuhren, erzhlte Olivo weitschweifig und wenig geord von ...... ein leises Zucken des Bedauerns hervorzurufen, das gestand, wie gern man ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 371
Figures Of Several Centuries
[english | 1916]Arthur Symons
Excerpts: [... moments that his narrative moves, with a more reticent and effective symbolism than any other narrative known to me. They are the moments in ...... only Lamb, who was always wandering, never lost sense of direction, or failed to know how far he had strayed from the road. The quality which came ...... into his daily life at Dux, as in this note, scribbled on a fragment of paper ...]
Genres: [biography | history] Downloads: 270
Elias Lnnrot
[swedish | 1884]August Ahlqvist
Excerpts: [... frsta upptrdande p den fosterlndska literaturens mark, d.v.s. r 1830 eller ett par r tidigare, var finska sprket s fga uppodladt, att det nuvarande ...... fven andra frebud och frsk frekommo kort innan Lnnrots upptrdande eller samtidigt med detta, hvilka andra sidan voro egnade att upplifva ynglingens ...... frmst lockade honom Topelii spr, och det var i dem v. Becker ifrigt ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 70
Andrew Marvell
[english | 1905]Augustine Birrell
Summary: [Includes bibliographical references and index.]
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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 ...]
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Fielding
[english | 1883]Austin Dobson
Excerpts: [... of its appearance-is an ill-judged emulation of Forster's Goldsmith. The author attempted to make Fielding a literary centre, which is impossible and ...... been successfully produced. Finally, most ancient of them all, there was the Theatre-Royal in Drury Lane, otherwise the King's Play House, or Old House. ...... Tragedies or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great, with the ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 93
Charles Lamb A Memoir
[english | ]Barry Cornwall
Summary: [Denis Duval -- Lovel the widower -- The wolves and the lamb -- Little travels and road-side sketches.]
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Marge Askinforit
[english | 1921]Barry Pain
Excerpts: [... British subject, who showed his love for his adopted country by trading as Stanley Harcourt. He was a striking figure with his coal-black hair and ...... perfect artist in his own medium, which happened to be hair. It is to him that I owe what is my only beauty, and I am assured that it defies detection. ...... Only an abstruse theologian with a taste for the more recondite ...]
Genres: [fiction and literature | humor | biography] Downloads: 94
The Book Of Missionary Heroes
[english | 1922]Basil Mathews
Excerpts: [... prison and even voted for their being put to death. I became so exceedingly mad against them that I even pursued them to foreign cities. Then as ...... by slaying infidel Christians. The Moslems every day and five times a day turn their faces to Mecca in Arabia, saying There is no God but God ...... and sure with his sword. And this is how Lull spoke of the Crusade on which he was ...]
Genres: [religion | biography] Downloads: 352
Adolphe Et De Lesprit De Conqute Et De Lusurpation
[french | 1842]Benjamin Constant
Excerpts: [... mes yeux un nouveau besoin se fit sentir au fond de mon coeur. Il y avait dans ce besoin beaucoup de vanit, sans doute, mais il n'y avait pas uniquement ...... le transport passager d'un homme qui avait dix ans de moins qu'elle, dont le coeur s'ouvrait des sentiments qui lui taient encore inconnus, et qui ...... m'couter. En mme temps je craignais horriblement de l'affliger. Ds que ...]
Genres: [biography | drama] Downloads: 265
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, ...]
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Great Indian Chief Of The West
[english | 1854]Benjamin Drake
Excerpts: [... these two tribes, which then took place, and continues to this day, was as much a matter of necessity as of feeling. The period of their migration ...... who were the Eagle and the Tortoise. These four last named were not chiefs but braves of distinction, who held honorable places in the council, and ...... Sacs and Foxes, fought under the British standard as a matter of choice: ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 455
Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin
[english | 1916]Benjamin Franklin
Summary: [The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790 however Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklins death this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of autobiography ever written. ...]
Genres: [biography | audiobook | history] Downloads: 487