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Allen Johnson Stephen A. Douglas (fiscle part-IV)

A Study In american Politics

Biografie/Autobiografie
Englisch
143545 Wörter
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To Describe The Career Of A Man Who Is Now Chiefly Remembered as The Rival Of Abraham Lincoln, Must Seem To Many Minds A Superfluous, If Not Invidious, Undertaking. The Present Generation Is Prone To Forget That When The Rivals Met In joint Debate Fifty Years Ago, On The Prairies Of Illinois, It Was Senator Douglas, And Not Mr. Lincoln, Who Was The Cynosure Of All Observing Eyes. Time Has Steadily Lessened the Prestige Of The Great Democratic Leader, And Just As Steadily Enhanced The Fame Of His Republican Opponent. [mehr]

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Wilfred Shaw The University of Michigan

Belletristik
Englisch
105822 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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It has not been the purpose of the author to write a history of the University of Michigan. Several predecessors in this field have done their work so well that another book entirely historical in character might seem superfluous. Rather it is the aim of this volume to furnish a survey--sketching broadly the development of the University, and dwelling upon incidents and personalities that contribute movement to the narrative. [mehr]

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Vera . Honor Edgeworth

Belletristik
Englisch
125719 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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In these days of plenty, when books of every subject and nature have become as commonly familiar to men as the blades of grass by the roadside, it seems superfluous to say any word of introduction or explanation on ushering a volume into the world of letters; but, lest the question arise as regards the direct intention or motive of an author, it is always safer that he make a plain statement of his object, in the preface page of his work, thus making sure that he will be rightly interpreted by his readers. [mehr]

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Duc de Saint- Simon The Memoirs of Louis XIV., Volume 11

Historisches
Englisch
34387 Wörter
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After having thus described with truth and the most exact fidelity all that has come to my knowledge through my own experience, or others qualified to speak of Louis XIV. during the last twenty-two years of his life: and after having shown him such as he was, without prejudice (although I have permitted myself to use the arguments naturally resulting from things), nothing remains but to describe the outside life of this monarch, during my residence at the Court. However insipid and perhaps superfluous details so well known may appear after what has been already given, lessons will be found therein for kings who may wish to make themselves respected, and who may wish to respect themselves. [mehr]

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Various Various The Germ (fiscle part-I) Thoughts Towards Nature In poetry, Literature And Art

Natur
Englisch
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Of Late Years It Has Been My Fate Or My Whim To Write A Good Deal About The Early Days Of The Praeraphaelite Movement, The Members Of The Praeraphaelite Brotherhood, And Especially My Brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, And My Sister Christina Georgina Rossetti. I Am Now Invited To Write Something Further On The Subject, With Immediate Reference To The Praeraphaelite Magazine "The Germ," Republished In This Volume. I Know Of No Particular Reason Why I Should Not Do This, For Certain It Is That Few People Living Know, Or Ever Knew, So Much As I Do About "The Germ,"; And If Some Press-Critics Who Regarded Previous Writings Of Mine As Superfluous Or Ill-Judged Should Entertain A Like Opinion Now, In Equal Or Increased Measure, I Willingly Leave Them To Say So, While I Pursue My Own Course None The Less. [mehr]

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Amelia Gere Mason The Women Of The French Salons

Drama
Englisch
94556 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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"Inspire, But Do Not Write," Said Lebrun To Women. Whatever We May Think Today Of This Rather Superfluous Advice, We Can Readily Pardon A Man Living In The Atmosphere Of The Old French Salons, For Falling Somewhat Under The Special Charm Of Their Leaders. It Was A Charm Full Of Subtle Flattery. These Women Were Usually Clever And Brilliant, But Their Cleverness And Brilliancy Were Exercised To Bring Into Stronger Relief The Talents Of Their Friends. It Is True That Many Of Them Wrote, As They Talked, Out Of The Fullness Of Their Own Hearts Or Their Own Intelligence, And With No Thought Of A Public; But It Was Only An Incident In Their Lives, Another Form Of Diversion, Which Left Them Quite Free From The Dreaded Taint Of Feminine Authorship. Their Peculiar Gift Was To Inspire Others, And Much Of The Fascination That Gave Them Such Power In Their Day Still Clings To Their Memories. [mehr]

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Will Lillibridge Ben Blair (Fiscle Part-X) The Story Of A Plainsman

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
90016 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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Even In a Community Where Unsavory Reputations Were The Rule, Mick Kennedy'S Saloon Was Of Evil Repute. In a Land New And Wild, His Establishment Was The Wildest, Partook Most Of The Unsubdued, Unevolved Character Of Its Surroundings. There, As Irresistibly As Gravitation Calls The Falling apple, Came From Afar And Near--Mainly From Afar--The Malcontent, The Restless, The Reckless, Seeking--Instinctively Gregarious--The Crowd, The Excitement Of The Green-Covered table, The Temporary Oblivion Following the Gulping of Fiery Red liquor. Great Splendid Animals Were The Men Who Gathered there; Hairy, Powerful, Strong-Voiced from Combat With Prairie Wind And Frontier Distance; Devoid Of A Superfluous Ounce Of Flesh, Their Trousers, Uniformly Baggy At The Knees, Bearing mute Testimony To The Many Hours Spent In the Saddle; The Bare Unprotected skin Of Their Hands And Faces Speaking Likewise Of Constant Contact With Sun And Storm. [mehr]

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Ivan Turgenev A Reckless Character And Other Stories

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
81351 Wörter
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was a great Russian novelist and playwright. His novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of major works of 19th-century fiction. After the standard schooling for a child of a gentleman's family, He studied for one year at the University of Moscow and then moved to the University of St Petersburg, focusing on the classics, Russian literature and philology. Turgenev was impressed with German Central-European society, and believed that Russia could best improve itself by imitating the West. Like many of his educated contemporaries, he was particularly opposed to serfdom. He first made his name with A Sportsman's Sketches, also known as Sketches From a Hunter's Album; or, Notes of a Hunter. He wrote several short novels like The Diary of a Superfluous Man, Faust and The Lull. In them Turgenev expressed the anxieties and hopes of Russians of his generation. Amongst his other works are Liza: A Nest of Nobles, The Jew and Other Stories, On the Eve, A Reckless Character and Other Stories, The Torrents of Spring, and The Rendezvous. [mehr]

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James Payn Bred In The Bone (Fiscle Part-Iv)

Abenteuer
Englisch
66441 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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Had You Lived In Breakneckshire Twenty Years Ago, Or Even Any Where In The Midlands, It Would Be Superfluous To Tell You Of Carew Of Crompton. Every Body Thereabout Was Acquainted With Him Either Personally Or By Hearsay. You Must Almost Certainly Have Known Somebody Who Had Had An Adventure With That Eccentric Personage--One Who Had Been Ridden Down By Him, For That Mighty Hunter Never Turned To The Right Hand Nor To The Left For Any Man, Nor Paid Attention To Any Rule Of Road; Or One Who, More Fortunate, Had Been "Cleared" By Him On His Famous Black Horse _Trebizond_, An Animal Only Second To His Master In The Popular Esteem. There Are As Many Highly Colored Pictures Of His Performance Of This Flying Feat In Existence As There Are Of "Dick Turpin Clearing The Turnpikegate." Sometimes It Is A Small Tradesman Cowering Down In His Cart Among The Calves, While The Gallant Squire Hurtles Over Him With A "Stoop Your Head, Butcher." Sometimes It Is A Wagoner, Reminding One Of Commodore Trunnion's Involuntary Deed Of "Derring-Do," Who, Between Two High Banks, Perceives With Marked Astonishment This Portent Flying Over Himself And Convoy. But, At All Events, The Thing Was Done; Perhaps On More Than One Occasion, And Was Allowed On All Hands Not Only As A Fact, But As Characteristic Of Their Sporting Idol. It Was "Carew All Over," Or "Just Like Carew." [mehr]

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James Branch Cabell Et Al The Cords Of Vanity (Fiscle Part-X)

Biografie/Autobiografie
Englisch
92236 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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When I First Knew Stella She Was Within A Month Of Being fifteen, Which Is For Womankind An Unattractive Age. There Were A Startling Number Of Corners To Her Then, And She Had But Vague Notions As To The Management Of Her Hands And Feet. In consequence They Were Perpetually Turning up In unexpected places And Surprising her By Their Size And Number. Yes, She Was Very Hopelessly Fifteen; And She Was Used to Laugh, Unnecessarily, In a Nervous Fashion, Approximating to A Whinny, And When Engaged in conversation She Patted down Her Skirts Six Times To The Minute. It Seems Oddly Unbelievable When I Reflect That Rosalind--"Daughter To The Banished duke"--And Stella And Helen Of Troy, And All The Other Famous Fair Ones Of History, Were Each Like That At One Period Or Another. As For Myself, I Was Nine Days Younger Than Stella, And So I Was At This Time Very Old--Much Older Than It Is Ever Permitted anyone To Be Afterward. I Cherished the Most Optimistic Ideas As To My Impendent Moustache, And Was Wont In privacy To Encourage It With The Manicure-Scissors. I Still Entertained the Belief That Girls Were Upon The Whole Superfluous Nuisances, But Was Beginning to Perceive The Expediency Of Concealing this Opinion, Even In private Converse With My Dearest Chum, Where, In our Joyous Interchange Of Various Heresies, We Touched upon This Especial Sub-Division Of Fauna Very Lightly, And, I Now Suspect, With Some Self-Consciousness. [mehr]

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