Author: Edward Gibbon
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Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Edward Gibbon
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Memoirs of My Life and Writings is an account of the historian Edward Gibbon's life, compiled after his death by his friend Lord Sheffield from six fragmentary autobiographical works Gibbon wrote during his last years.

Author: Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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Category : Queens
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: Lyndon Orr
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Algernon Graves
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 483

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Author: George Gordon Byron Baron Byron
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Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Author: Clifton Fadiman
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316084727
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1322

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A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.

Author: Benjamin Constant
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594

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Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) was born in Switzerland and became one of France's leading writers, as well as a journalist, philosopher, and politician. His colourful life included a formative stay at the University of Edinburgh; service at the court of Brunswick, Germany; election to the French Tribunate; and initial opposition and subsequent support for Napoleon, even the drafting of a constitution for the Hundred Days. Constant wrote many books, essays, and pamphlets. His deepest conviction was that reform is hugely superior to revolution, both morally and politically. While Constant's fluid, dynamic style and lofty eloquence do not always make for easy reading, his text forms a coherent whole, and in his translation Dennis O'Keeffe has focused on retaining the 'general elegance and subtle rhetoric' of the original. Sir Isaiah Berlin called Constant 'the most eloquent of all defenders of freedom and privacy' and believed to him we owe the notion of 'negative liberty', that is, what Biancamaria Fontana describes as "the protection of individual experience and choices from external interferences and constraints." To Constant it was relatively unimportant whether liberty was ultimately grounded in religion or metaphysics -- what mattered were the practical guarantees of practical freedom -- "autonomy in all those aspects of life that could cause no harm to others or to society as a whole." This translation is based on Etienne Hofmann's critical edition of Principes de politique (1980), complete with Constant's additions to the original work.

Author: Benjamin Constant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521316323
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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This 1988 book is an English translation of the major political works of Benjamin Constant.

Author: Maria Edgeworth
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Leonora" by Maria Edgeworth. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.