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Rebels and Reformers - Biographies for Young People
by Arthur PonsonbyThis book is intended for young people who are beginning to take an interest in historical subjects, and it may also be acceptable to those who are too busy with their daily work to find much time or opportunity for continuing, as they would like a full course of study. Many people have not the leisure to read a three-volume biography, and so they ..
Why We Love Lincoln
by James CreelmanWhile our great battleship fleet thundered peace and friendship to the world, as it moved from sea to sea, stinging pens and voices in one country after another answered that America had suddenly passed from blustering youth to cynical old age, and that the harmless effrontery of our nationality in the past was not to be confounded with the cold-br..
Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Bryce WaltonLives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 1 (of 2): MontaigneRabelaisCorneilleRochefoucauldMolièreLa Fontaine PascalMadame de SévignéBoileauRacineFénélon..
James Clerk Maxwell and Modern Physics
by Richard GlazebrookThe task of giving some account of Maxwell’s work—of describing the share that he has taken in the advance of Physical Science during the latter half of this nineteenth century—has proved no light labour. The problems which he attacked are of such magnitude and complexity, that the attempt to explain them and their importance, satisfactorily, witho..
Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2)
by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyLives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of France, Vol. 2 (of 2) contains the biography of Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, Mirabeau, Madame Roland, Madame de Staël.It is impossible to commence the biography of this extraordinary man without feelings of apprehension as to our power of well executing the task. To write the life of V..
Twenty Years of My Life
by Douglas SladenThe twenty years of my life which I here present to readers are the twenty years which I spent at 32, Addison Mansions, Kensington, during which I was in constant intercourse with most of the best-known writers of the generation. The book is therefore largely taken up with personal reminiscences and impressions of them—indeed, not a few of them, su..
Washington the Soldier
by Henry B. CarringtonThe text of this volume, completed in the spring of 1898 and not since modified, requires a different Preface from that first prepared. The events of another war introduce applications of military principles which have special interest. This is the more significant because modern appliances have been developed with startling rapidity, while general..
Anthony Wayne, 1745-1796
by Randolph C. DownesThe following biographical sketch of Anthony Wayne was written by Randolph C. Downes. It was published in 1936 by Charles Scribner’s Sons in the DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY, volume nineteen. Both the American Council of Learned Societies, the copyright holder, and the publisher have graciously accorded permission to reproduce the article in it..