Author: P. T. BarnumPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
A sailor's log, recollections of forty years of naval life
Author: Robley Dunglison EvansPublisher:
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Category : Chile
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
My yarn of forty years of naval life is spun." So ends this well-told tale of life at sea by Robley D. Evans, whose naval career is legendary. Evans served in the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, and was renowned for both his seamanship and diplomatic skills. This thought-provoking memoir gives readers the insight into the life of a soldier.
John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet
Author: John ShermanPublisher:
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Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
My Recollections of African M.E. Ministers
Author: Alexander Walker WaymanPublisher:
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Category : African American Methodists
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Forty Years of Firsts
Author: Earl L. WarrickPublisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Booknews: Warrick was one of the creators of commercial silicone. He provides an insider's look at the business and scientific history of Dow Corning, recounting the research, product and materials development, and the major participants.
Forty Years' Recollections of Life, Literature, and Public Affairs
Author: Charles MackayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385565812
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Forty Years in Constantinople
Author: Edwin PearsPublisher:
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Category : Istanbul (Turkey)
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Struggles and Triumphs: or, forty years' Recollections of P. T. Barnum
Author: P. T. BarnumForty Years' Recollections: Literary and Political
Author: Thomas FrostPublisher: Gale and the British Library
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XIII. MISSION WORK IX BETHNAL GREEN. I Was acquainted at this time with a young' curate, with whem I had somo time boforo made a pedestrian tour through somo of the most beautiful portions of the beautiful county of Kent, and who had lately exchanged his first curacy at Haverstock Hill for a similar engagement in the district of SL Philip, Bcthnal Green. On tho occasion of my first visit to him after this change, our conversation turned upon hemo missions, and I was led to make some remarks, derived from my own observation, upon the incompetency of many of thc Beripture-readora, whose mission-fields were the' industrial quarters of our large towns, for the accomplishment of the end for which they wero appointed. They may be tolerably well qualified to deal with the indifferent and the ignorant, I observed; but they are utterly incompetent to remove the doubts or meet the arguments of the many intelligentmen to bo found in largo towns who reject the ISible as a divine revelation. They way be useful nn.xiliaries of the clergy in visiting the poor inein- Ihts of u congregation, and tolerably successful in bringing into the fold of the Chureh the ignorant and the indifferent; but they don't realize my idea nf whut a Christian missionary in the homo field hhould Ihi in tin ngc like the present. There is great difliculty in obtaining men whe would, returned the curate. It is true they are not very highly paid; but many of them, notably those employed by the City Missionary Society, are as well paid as a largo proportion of curates, whe are drawn from a higher and more educated class. The Churehes, said I, in continuance of the thought that was in my mind, send to the ignorant heathen of Africa and Malaysia men qualified by education for the ministr...
Fifty Years in Constantinople, and Recollections of Robert College
Author: George WashburnPublisher:
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Category : Turkey
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Forty Years at El Paso, 1858-1898
Author: W. W. MillsPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
'Forty Years at El Paso' is a candid memoir by William Wallace Mills that documents his personal experiences in the city from 1858-1898. Mills writes about his encounters with notorious figures like Victorio, the Apache general, and his rivalry with A.J. Fountain, his worst enemy. He also details the violence and corruption that plagued El Paso during this time, including the Cardis-Howard feud and the bloody reign of Marshal Studemeier. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of El Paso or the American Southwest.