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Grant M. Overton 5d241t
This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists. Several excuses may be urged; the author is, by general agreement, young. He has to do with many novels, being, indeed, a sort of new and strange creature, a litera.. 135j5p
James Montgomery 3e5l6o
Garcilaso did not, however, long enjoy the leisure that he so well employed. Charles V., whose great ambition was to crush the power of , and to possess himself of a portion of that kingdom, was resolved to take advantage of the disastrous issue of Francis I.'s attempt upon the duchy of Milan, and rashly determined to invade a country whose a..
Henry Timberlake 1w32v
After extracting this detail from my Journal, and supplying many circumstances from my memory, I was very much at a loss what title to give it. Memoirs seemed to answer my design with the greatest propriety; but that being so commonly misapplied, I was afraid the public would expect a romance, where I only intended laying down a few facts, for the ..
Arthur Ponsonby 17564r
This 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 ..
James Creelman 36415h
While 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 ed 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..
Bryce Walton 6q4f2z
Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of , Vol. 1 (of 2): MontaigneRabelaisCorneilleRochefoucauldMolièreLa Fontaine PascalMadame de SévignéBoileauRacineFénélon..
Richard Glazebrook f1534
The task of giving some 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..
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 724758
Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of , 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..