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Author: Cornelia Knight Publisher: ISBN: 9781332535767 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 374
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Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences If there be, as many would have us believe, an instinctive curiosity in the Republican mind in regard to royal and noble personages, their habits and course of life, this curiosity has been gratified of late by the publication of the "Greville Memoirs," with the choicest portions of which the readers of this series of little volumes are doubtless familiar. These famous "Memoirs" have not increased the respect of any reader towards royalty; on the contrary, they have lessened it amazingly, both here and in England. The divinity that doth hedge a king is vanished. Divine right is now seen to be a monstrous earthly wrong, and the High Mightinesses who claimed it, humbugs, if not worse. There is a hasty and unreasoning hatred of kingcraft and its belongings, of which the village Fourth of July oration, spouted in thundering tones by a blatant demagogue, is a good example; and there is a well considered and reasonable dislike of kingcraft and its abuses which is shared by thoughtful minds the world over. We flatter ourselves, perhaps, that it is only of late years that men have learned to measure kings by the common standards of humanity, but we are wrong. Many of the old English poets have done so in their stately tragedies and lyrics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Cornelia Knight Publisher: ISBN: 9781332535767 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 374
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Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences If there be, as many would have us believe, an instinctive curiosity in the Republican mind in regard to royal and noble personages, their habits and course of life, this curiosity has been gratified of late by the publication of the "Greville Memoirs," with the choicest portions of which the readers of this series of little volumes are doubtless familiar. These famous "Memoirs" have not increased the respect of any reader towards royalty; on the contrary, they have lessened it amazingly, both here and in England. The divinity that doth hedge a king is vanished. Divine right is now seen to be a monstrous earthly wrong, and the High Mightinesses who claimed it, humbugs, if not worse. There is a hasty and unreasoning hatred of kingcraft and its belongings, of which the village Fourth of July oration, spouted in thundering tones by a blatant demagogue, is a good example; and there is a well considered and reasonable dislike of kingcraft and its abuses which is shared by thoughtful minds the world over. We flatter ourselves, perhaps, that it is only of late years that men have learned to measure kings by the common standards of humanity, but we are wrong. Many of the old English poets have done so in their stately tragedies and lyrics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Margaret E. Sangster Publisher: ISBN: 9781330631065 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 352
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Excerpt from From My Youth Up: Personal Reminiscences The question may easily be asked, "Why venture outside the seclusion of the home and the intimacy of personal friendship, with a book of reminiscences?" The answer is twofold. Many friends have made the suggestion that the story of a literary career, if simply and frankly told, may be helpful to others. They have been the more urgent on this score for the reason that whatever measure of success has been mine, I have never laid aside for an hour or a day my responsibility to the home and hearth, and my caretaking of little domestic affairs. Such work as I have done has concerned itself chiefly with home life and with helping tired folk to take fresh courage and bear their burdens cheerily and without complaint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: John Russell Young Publisher: ISBN: 9781331390343 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 506
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Excerpt from Men and Memories: Personal Reminiscences In presenting this volume to the public, it is but just to the memory of the author, as well as due to many of his friends, that a word of explanation should be given of its apparent desultoriness. The original plan of "Men and Memories" was laid out in 1891, and the first article written, at my own urgent insistence. Mr. Young's personal acquaintance with eminent men, his interesting experiences and reminiscences seemed too valuable to be lost; and after much persuasion, he began the series with the article upon "Lincoln." His original scheme included "Recollections of Charles Sumner," - "Wendell Phillips," - "James G. Blaine and his Times," - longer papers upon "Horace Greeley," - "The Cary Sisters" and "Tribune Days," - "Edwin Booth and the American Stage during the past 35 years." Together with "Reminiscences of 'English Friends, '" - among whom were "Robert Browning," - "Wilkie Collins," - "George Eliot," - "William Black," - "Miss Mu-lock" (Mrs. Craik), - and "Henry Irving and His Influence upon Acting." Mr. Young's original plan was never carried out. Many duties pressed, and while he was still making notes upon those who had passed on, other friends, near at hand, were falling from the ranks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: George Hodder Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780484886949 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 444
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Excerpt from Memories of My Time: Including Personal Reminiscences of Eminent Men When I sat down to commit these reminiscences to paper, I felt the extreme difficulty, and even delicacy, of the task I had undertaken; and I am too well aware how inadequately I have performed it; but I have been impelled throughout by a consciousness that the peculiar relations in which I had stood with men who have won renown in the struggle for literary distinction, had supplied me with facts sufficiently interesting to be laid before the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Daniel M. Tredwell Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780332200040 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 180
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Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island, Vol. 2 Spencer, Wallace and others is the greatest the world has ever witnessed. The author of the Vestiges in concluding his work says Thus ends a book composed in solitude and almost without the cognizance of a single fellow being, as solely as possible for the purpose of improving the knowledge of mankind and through that medium their happiness. For reasons best to be appreciated by myself, my name is retained in its original obscurity and in all probability will never be generally known. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: L. E. Chittenden Publisher: ISBN: 9781331307631 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 466
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Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences: 1840 1890; Including Some Not Hitherto Published of Lincoln and the War If the opinion of a large body of correspondents is reliable, the reading-public have derived some pleasure from my "Recollections of President Lincoln and his Administration." The chief attraction of that book must lie in its great central figure. If, as these correspondents claim, it has other merits, I think they are comprised in the fact that the subjects are personal, and each is treated separately in a chapter of no great length. It was also my purpose to describe persons and events without exaggeration or prejudice, just as they appeared to me at the time. The present volume is written in the same spirit and on the same plan. While it lacks the great central attraction of the "Recollections," I sincerely hope that each subject will be found to possess an interest or to point a moral which will justify its publication. I have an impression that truth is just as attractive in a book as it is in the ordinary transactions of life. If there is any false statement of fact herein, it has escaped my notice and has been unintentionally made. No chronological or other order of subjects has been attempted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: J. William Jones Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780331631494 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 566
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Excerpt from Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee The author does not propose to add another Life of Lee to the several that have been given to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Cornelia Knight
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