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By: Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) | |
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Richard Lovell Edgeworth A Selection From His Memoirs |
By: Sarah Knowles Bolton (1841-1916) | |
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Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous
These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty is no barrier to success. It usually develops ambition, and nerves people to action. Life at best has much of struggle, and we need to be cheered and stimulated by the careers of those who have overcome obstacles.If Lincoln and Garfield, both farmer-boys, could come to the Presidency, then there is a chance for other farmer-boys. If Ezra Cornell, a mechanic, could become the president of great telegraph companies, and leave millions to a university, then other mechanics can come to fame... |
By: John Beatty (1828-1914) | |
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The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer | |
By: Henry Noel Brailsford (1873-1958) | |
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Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle |
By: L. S. (Lucy S.) Thompson | |
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The Story of Mattie J. Jackson Her Parentage—Experience of Eighteen years in Slavery—Incidents during the War—Her Escape from Slavery |
By: Marianne Farningham (1834-1909) | |
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Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands |
By: Mary Somerville (1780-1872) | |
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Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville |
By: Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock | |
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War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 |
By: M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems (1759-1825) | |
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The Life of General Francis Marion |
By: Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood (1864-1945) | |
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Abraham Lincoln |
By: John Cann Bailey (1864-1931) | |
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Dr. Johnson and His Circle |
By: Friedrich Trenck (1726-1794) | |
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The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 1 | |
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 |
By: John Cann Bailey (1864-1931) | |
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Milton |
By: Basil Joseph Mathews (1879-1951) | |
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Book of Missionary Heroes
Through the centuries, the world has been witness to an unbroken trail of heroes--men and women who braved privation, danger, and death to bring the light of Jesus Christ to the darkest corners of the earth. Some are well known, others long forgotten, but all belong to the same indomitable band of torch-bearers. Join a few of these heroes as they face cannibals, battle slave traders, and care for sick enemies, always with one mission at the forefront--to serve their Lord and bring others into His light. |
By: Lauren Ann Isaacson (1961-1986) | |
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Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer |
By: Annie L. Burton (c. 1858-) | |
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Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days
This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern plantation while the Civil War raged around her, and after the Emancipation Proclamation, how her life changed as she struggled to maintain herself and family, manage her finances, and develop as a free person of color. The last half of the narrative relies heavily upon speeches, poems, and hymns written by others that stirred Annie's religious passions and increased her pride in her heritage, including a very powerful speech by Dr... |
By: Charles Kent (1823-1902) | |
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Charles Dickens as a Reader |
By: John Doyle Lee (1812-1877) | |
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The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite |
By: Hutchins Hapgood (1868-1944) | |
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Paul Jones |
By: Humphry Davy (1778-1829) | |
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Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher |
By: G. Holden (Godfrey Holden) Pike (1836-) | |
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From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington |
By: Kate Drumgoold | |
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A Slave Girl's Story Being an Autobiography of Kate Drumgoold. |
By: John Maclean (1851-1928) | |
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William Black The Apostle of Methodism in the Maritime Provinces of Canada |
By: William Gunion Rutherford (1853-1907) | |
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Story of Garfield
A short biography of the 20th U.S. President. Garfield was raised in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and elder brother. Before he was elected president in the Republican party he was first elected to Congress in 1862 as Representative of the 19th District of Ohio. Then to the Senate in 1880. His presidency lasted just 200 days—from March 4, 1881, until his death on September 19, 1881, as a result of being shot by assassin Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881. |
By: Nettie Garmer Barker | |
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Kansas Women in Literature |
By: John Denvir (1843-1916) | |
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The Life Story of an Old Rebel |
By: Emma Raymond Pitman | |
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Elizabeth Fry |
By: Stapleton Martin (1846-1922) | |
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Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield |
By: Howard Trueman (1837-1908) | |
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The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers |
By: George T. (George Thomas) Stevens (1832-1921) | |
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Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 |
By: J. (John) Wilkinson (1821-1891) | |
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The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner |
By: Thomas Hanly Ball | |
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Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 |
By: Evans, A. J. (1889-1960) | |
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The Escaping Club
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly "escape-proof" German prison camp during World War I. After repatriation and rejoining the war, Evans again finds himself captured, this time first by Arabs and then by Turks. He again manages to escape. A detailed look at the trials faced by Allied POWs during World War I. |
By: Victor MacClure (1887-1963) | |
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She Stands Accused |
By: John Bursey | |
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Dumas Commentary |
By: George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) | |
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Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy |
By: Peter Hume Brown (1849-1918) | |
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The Youth of Goethe |
By: John Hicklin | |
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The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales" |
By: P. A. (Patrick Arkley) Wright Henderson (1841-1922) | |
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The Life and Times of John Wilkins Warden of Wadham college, Oxford; master of Trinity college, Cambridge; and Bishop of Chester |
By: Edgar Fahs Smith (1854-1928) | |
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Priestley in America 1794-1804 | |
James Cutbush An American Chemist, 1788-1823 |
By: Helen Nicolay (1866-1954) | |
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Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln
The Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln is a biography with many anecdotes that takes one deeper into the thoughts, personality, and beliefs of the man that was Lincoln. While the title indicates the book is about Lincoln’s life as a boy, the book is a full, if somewhat shortened biography. It is very well written and was a joy to record. One might ask, "Who was Helen Nicolay?" Her father, John George Nicolay, was Abraham Lincoln's private secretary and doubtless much of the material comes from his complete biography of Abraham Lincoln. ( |
By: Richard Holt Hutton (1826-1897) | |
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Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) |
By: William Henry Seward (1801-1872) | |
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Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States With the Eulogy Delivered Before the Legislature of New York |
By: Joel Benton (1832-1911) | |
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The Life of Phineas T. Barnum |
By: Mary F. (Mary Frances) Sandars (1864-) | |
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Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings |
By: Edward Osler (1798-1863) | |
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The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth |
By: J. Q. (James Quay) Howard (1836-1912) | |
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The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes |
By: Rupert S. Holland (1878-1952) | |
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Historic Boyhoods
Most boys grow up to be honest, maybe even good, men, but do not stand out from the crowd. Occasionally, along comes a boy who is destined, either by character or circumstance, to make his mark on the world. In this work are included 21 biographical sketches of boys who became famous in the arts, affairs of state or exploration and discovery. Historical fact is blended with surmise and imagination to bring these boyhoods alive. |
By: James Harrison | |
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The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 |
By: Elwyn A. (Elwyn Allen) Smith (1919-) | |
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Men Called Him Master |
By: George H. Devol (1829-1903) | |
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Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi |
By: Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert (1871-1933) | |
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The Mirrors of Washington |
By: Arthur E. Knights | |
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Notes By the Way in a Sailor's Life |
By: Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1842-1927) | |
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Recollections of My Childhood and Youth |
By: Stuart J. (Stuart Johnson) Reid (1848-1927) | |
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Lord John Russell |
By: James J. (James John) Davis (1873-1947) | |
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The Iron Puddler My life in the rolling mills and what came of it |
By: William Eleazar Barton (1861-1930) | |
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His Life A Complete Story in the Words of the Four Gospels |