The first of these is a history of the middle ages in the general style of Robertson's “Introduction to the Life of Charles V.” Years ago, when beginning my work as a professor of modern history at the University of Michigan, ...
In Autobiography Chesterton describes his happy childhood, the intellectual 'doubts and morbidities' of his youth and his search for a true vocation.
FUNGI Nicholas P. Money THE FUTURE Jennifer M. Gidley GALAXIES John Gribbin GALILEO Stillman Drake GAME THEORY Ken Binmore GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh GENES Jonathan Slack GENIUS Andrew Robinson GENOMICS John Archibald GEOGRAPHYJohn Matthews ...
Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (written under the name Linda Brent) ends at the point where her 'freedom' is bought, after years spent in hiding as a fugitive slave. Despite her gratitude to her benefactor, ...
1924. Published for the first time without alterations or omissions from the original transcript. Mill's autobiography shows the growth of a man in the midst of his age.
Autobiography by John Stuart Mill John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 - 8 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist and civil servant.
Hither came, toward the close of the eighteenth century, a body of sturdy New Englanders, and, among them, my grandfathers and grandmothers. Those on my father's side: Asa White and Clara Keep, from Munson, Massa-chusetts; ...
Members of the City Council of Pittsburgh reminded me that I had first offered Pittsburgh money for a library and hall, which it declined, and that then Allegheny City had asked if I would give them to her, which I did.
The new edition of this classic guide is fully updated to include: developments in autobiographical criticism, highlighting major theoretical issues and concepts different forms of the genre from confessions and narratives to memoirs and ...
"Autobiography" from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. German writer and statesman (1749-1832).
as an idea, was coined in the 1990s and has been associated in particular with two books published within a year of each other: Mary Ann Caws' Women of Bloomsbury (1990) and Nancy K. Miller's Getting Personal (1991); however these books ...
in particular with two books published within a year of each other : Mary Ann Caws ' Women of Bloomsbury ( 1990 ) and Nancy K. Miller's Getting Personal ( 1991 ) ; however these books also have slightly different approaches and ...
... Gunther, 155 Payne, Lewis, 346 Peake, Charles, 136-137 Peirce, Charles Sanders, 107,159, 175, 179, 202, 216, 290, 293 Pepys, Samuel, 184n6, 187 Pera, Marcello, 196, 211 Perry, Ralph Barton, 184n6 Petrie, Charles, 184n6 Pfizenmayer, ...
I went, as directed, from Dominica, to the Methodist Hostel for male students; but on arriving there, I was approached by a very Chinese looking young man, whose name I learned later, was William Bronte'. William asked me what was my ...
There is at present on the island of Cronstadt, at the mouth of the Neva, a Russo-Greek priest, Father Ivan, who enjoys throughout the empire a vast reputation as a saintly worker of miracles. This priest has a very spiritual and kindly ...
Agee is the most “poetical” prose stylist of them all, as his passage on the retiring Gudger family may indicate: and George's grouched, sleepy voice, and hers to him, no words audible; and the shuffling; and a twisting in beds, ...
I was born in London, on the 20th of May, 1806, and was the eldest son of James Mill, the author of the History of British India.
The only matter which connected me with politics at all was my conviction, which deepened more and more, as to the necessity of reform in the civil service; and on this subject I conferred with Mr. Dorman B. Eaton, Mr. John Jay, ...
Popular clamor compelled Lincoln to change him at last, but those who were behind the scenes well knew that if other departments had been as well managed as was the War Department under Cameron, all things considered, much of disaster ...
Consisting of Present indicative, Future indicative, Future indefinite and the uncompleted Past conditional - With an introduction by Sheridan Morleyo_