Author: M. Ernest Legouvé Publisher: ISBN: 9781330930021 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 346
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Excerpt from Sixty Years of Recollections, Vol. 2 of 2 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: M. Ernest Legouve Publisher: ISBN: 9781331727071 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 342
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Excerpt from Sixty Years of Recollections, Vol. 1 of 2 One day Ste-Beuve said to me, 'I never speak of a writer until I have found the central point of his work, the dominant trait of his character; that is why I have not taken you up before as the subject of an essay. My perception of you was not sufficiently clear, but now I may begin; I fancy "I've got hold of you."' 'Well, ' I replied, 'seeing that you have got hold of me, tell me what I am, give me a definition of myself.' 'It Is the simplest thing in the world. That which strikes one most forcibly in you is the "unity" of your life. You have travelled along roads, very different from one another, but the aim pursued was always the same. You belong to the race which considers well before it acts. You traced your plan of existence Vol. 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 Morley Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780483124622 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 410
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Excerpt from Recollections, Vol. 2 of 2 After dinner, in the drawing-room, he at once sat down to backgammon with Armitstead. Mrs. G. Carried me to a sofa behind an ornamental glass screen, and I then found with a minute of consterna tion that I was to tell her the fatal news. Mr. G. 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: F. B. Sanborn Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267243280 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 290
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Excerpt from Recollections of Seventy Years, Vol. 1 of 2 But now thy uncle is removing hence, As princes do their seats, when they are cloyed With long continuance in a settled place. 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: Ferdinand De Lesseps Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780656755073 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 326
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Excerpt from Recollections of Forty Years, Vol. 2 of 2 Ali to his son-in-law, the Defterdar, who committed atrocities the very description of which makes the blood boil. I am told that he was equally cruel to those of his soldiers or servitors who were lacking discipline. 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 Cordy Jeaffreson Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780364115893 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 366
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Excerpt from A Book of Recollections, Vol. 2 of 2 Springfield Road with or without a letter of intro duction, one of the most amusing was Mr of New Orleans, who displayed the worldly shrewdness and bucolic simplicity that are sometimes equally conspicuous in the scholarly citizens of the United States. This tourist from the New World had crossed the Atlantic in a yacht, and, entering Europe by the Mediterranean, had landed at Barcelona, where he made the acquaintance of Her Britannic Majesty's Consul, James Hannay, who gave him the letter of introduction that made him a welcome guest at 43, Springfield Road. After the wont of scampering tourists from the other side of the Atlantic, Mr. 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: Emily Emily Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267637676 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 314
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Excerpt from Sixty-Nine Years at the Court of Prussia, Vol. 2 of 2: From the Recollections of the Mistress of the Household Sophie Marie Countess Von Voss We drove by Pankow, but not through the town; then round Berlin, and arrived safely at last in Charlottenburg. Great rejoicings. The King's brother had already received us in Stein h'ovel; the Royal sisters received us here, and a number of other people besides.' 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 Poole Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781330780879 Category : Languages : en Pages : 338
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Excerpt from Sketches and Recollections, Vol. 2 of 2 In the formation of character, the Operation of a pre cept frequently repeated, though im rceptable, is certain; and no one W111 venture to dispute t at a person who can scarcel ever step into his carriage, or. Seal a letter, with out fin ing the same maxim obtruded upon his attention, will insensibly become its slave. How much, then, must the case of such a one be aggravated, when abandoned to the influence of two such monitors, both pointing the same way! Had either of the two familes had for their motto, Delays are dangerous, ' or, 3t1ike while the iron's hot, ' or. 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: Cyrus Redding Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780260564979 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 396
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Excerpt from Fifty Years' Recollections, Vol. 2 of 3: Liberty and Personal, With Observation on Men and Things The triumphal arches were erecting to greet the entrance Of the too noted Duchess de Berry, just married to the Duke. We stayed three or four days only in Paris. Returning, via Pontoise, we again dined off our former fare, with mixed company, including two or three British officers. We sat at table too long to think of pro ceeding, slept, and finding my friend would not move the next morning, I rode home alone. He had met an old Peninsular brother Officer. In two days, my companion returned, riding his horse so hard in a burning August day, that it died in consequence. It was the last of four he had taken with him to Spain. Had the horse been mine, I should never have forgiven myself, for it was a noble animal. 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: M. Ernest Legouvé
Author: M. Ernest Legouve
Author: F. B. Sanborn
Author: John Morley
Author: F. B. Sanborn
Author: Ferdinand De Lesseps
Author: John Cordy Jeaffreson
Author: Emily Emily
Author: John Poole
Author: Cyrus Redding