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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: The Religious tract society in 1897 in 169 pages; Subjects: Missionaries; Missions; China; Biography & Autobiography / Religious; History / Asia / China; Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions; Travel / Asia / China;

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Dodd, Mead and Company in 1892 in 361 pages; Subjects: Abolitionists; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Political; Fiction / Classics; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877); Political Science / General; Social Science / Slavery;

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: London, A. Freeman in 1747 in 64 pages; Subjects: Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746; Jacobite rebellion, 1745-1746; Biography

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Memorial Addresses Delivered in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States, Sixty-Sixth Congress, Third Session. Proceedings in the House, February 29, 1920. Proceedings in the Senate June 1, 1920; Subjects: Biography

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough Street in 1870 in 316 pages; Subjects: Biography & AutobiographyGreat Britain; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Reference; Biography & Autobiography / Royalty; History / Europe / Great Britain;

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. A GUEST IN MANY HOMES. Mr. Gladstone was essentially " a citizen of the world," enjoying social intercourse with marvellous zest within a short time before he passed away. His memory of faces and facts aided him in conversation, and very rarely indeed did he fail to broach some topic on which those who met him in society were not interested. One of the few occasions on which he made amusing mistakes in identity was at a dinnerparty where Professor Stokes, President of the Royal Society, was a guest. Mr. Gladstone, who sat next to him, supposed him to be the Professor Stokes whose forte was Ecclesiastical History. So he plied him with questions as to various errors in the "History of the Irish Church." He turned at length to his silent companion, and inquired whether he did not agree with his views. "Well, sir, I really know nothing whatever about the subject," was the reply of Professor Stokes, of Cambridge. "But," said Mr. Gladstone, "you wrote the book." "No," said the Professor, " I certainly did not." "But," insisted Mr. Gladstone, " you are Professor Stokes." "Yes, that is true, but I am Professor of Physics at Cambridge, and therefore can hardly be regarded as an authority on ecclesiastical history!" Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright were on another occasion at a party, where the famous French economist, M. Chevalier, was hoping to catch some words of wisdom from the lips of the two statesmen. But, by one of the perversities of fate, Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright did nothing but converse on corns and chiropody. This was all the more mysterious to the distinguished Frenchman, because he was under the impression that the discussion was on corn and the corn duties. It reminds one of Tennyson's story of how, at his first meeting with Frederick W. ...

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1855 Original Publisher: Miller, Orton

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Hubbard in 1888 in 374 pages; Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Political; Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State; Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Political;

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842. Excerpt: ... 1778. CONTENTS. Streatham Journal resumed--Character of Mr. Thrale--Dr. Johnson--Country Neighbours--Bennet Langton--Character of Mrs. Tlirale--Table-talk of Dr. Johnson--Eccentricities of the Cumberland family--Dr. Johnson and Richard Cumberland--More Table-talk of Dr. Johnson--Anecdotes of the Cumberland Family---Mrs. Montagu and Bet Flint--The Female Wits--Mrs. Pinkethman--Mrs. Rudd--Kitty Fisher--An Election Dinner--Dr. Johnson--Anecdote of his Rudeness--His Lives of the Poets--Mrs. Charlotte Lennox--The Author of " Hermes"--Learned Ladies--Johnson's Opinion of them--Richardson--Fielding--Murphy--Mr. Lort--Cumberland--Seward--Chatterton--The Perils of Popularity--Hannah More--Dr. Johnson's Harsh Treatment of her. PART II. 1778. Streatham, Sunday, Aug. 23.--I know not how to express the fullness of my contentment at this sweet place. All my best expectations are exceeded, and you know they were not very moderate. If, when my dear father comes, Susan and Mr. Crisp were to come too, I believe it would require at least a day's pondering to enable me to form another wish. Our journey was charming. The kind Mrs. Thrale would give courage to the most timid. She did not ask me questions, or catechise me upon what I knew, or use any means to draw me out, but made it her business to draw herself out--that is, to start subjects, to support them herself, and to take all the weight of the conversation, as if it behoved her to find me entertainment. But I am so much in love with her, that I shall be obliged to run away from the subject, or shall write of nothing else. When we arrived here, Mrs. Thrale showed me my room, which is an exceeding pleasant one, and then conducted me to the library, there to divert myself while she dressed. Miss Thrale soon joined me: and...

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Biography

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864. Excerpt: ... GOING TO BED. Look, Emma, at these sleepy flow'rs Which close their eyes for midnight hours; When morning comes again, they '11 wake, Nor their appointments ever break. The little birds are in their nest, And folding up their wings to rest; The cattle, too, are in the shed--And you, dear child, should be in bed. See the bright day is growing dim, And weary Nature ends her hymn; Come, fold your hands and kneel to pray, That God may bless the closing day. Mamma, I 've made my ev'ning pray'r, And ask'd for Heaven's protecting care, But, still, I have a strange cold dread--A fear to be alone in bed. Oh, must you now put out the light, And leave me with your last good-night; Sit longer by my little bed--Your arms still underneath me spread. Dear child! a feeble human arm Is no defence from midnight harm; Look to a guardian pow'r above--The shelter of a Saviour's love. Remember little Charlie, dear, He went to bed without this fear; Nor ever cared to be alone--God came, he said, when I was gone. Will you, like little Charlie be, And feel as safe alone as he; Kind angels with their wings outspread, Encamp'd around your lonely bed? See now! as I put out this light, God kindles up a lamp more bright; Behind those clouds there is a moon, And it will shine upon you soon. Oh watch it bright'ning more and more, And streaming on your chamber floor; Now through the curtains of your bed, The silver beams are softly shed. Ah, dear! it was this loving light, That shone upon that wond'rous night, Which, in the garden, Jesus spent, When to Gethsemane He went. Within His bosom wrapt you '11 lie, And watch'd by His unsleeping eye. Now kiss me, darling, just to show You 're not afraid to let me go. MORNING PRAISE. Not up! you little sluggard, fie I The sun has long been in the ...

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co. in 1889 in 160210 pages; Subjects: Africa, West; Slavery; Indigenous peoples; Sudan; Africa, North; Nigeria; Blacks; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Cultural Heritage; History / Africa / General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Social Science / Slavery;

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854. Excerpt: ... twenty acres of land in Killynemaraghe and Ballygibbon, and the rectories Downbolloge, Kylowane, St. Katharine's, and Moygyelle, with their reprises, all situate in the county. The 17th of September and seventeenth of Elizabeth, this abbey, with two hundred and eighty acres in the town and lands of Chore, one hundred and twenty acres in Kilmanagh, Downmacmore, and Ballygibbin; a messuage and garden in Carrigh; a parcel of land containing fifteen acres; the rectories of Chore, Donbolloge, St. Katharine's, near Cork; Kilrowan, Kilcollehy and Moygelly, and the vicarage of Ballinechore, all belonging to the abbey of Middleton, were granted in capite, to John Fitzgerald and his heirs. Mourne, in the barony of Barretts. A preceptory for knights templars was founded in the reign of King John, by Alexander de Sancta Helena, or he was a principal benefactor to it. At the suppression of this order it was granted to the Hospitallers. Thomas Fitzgerald was commendator in the years 1326, '27 and '30. John FitzRichard was commendator in the years 1334, '35, '37, and "39. The prior of Kilmainham appointed the said John to this commandery, and the act was dated at the commandery of Tully, in the county of Kildare, A.D. 1335: "We have granted unto friar John Fitzrichard, the whole government and custody of our house of Mora or Mourne, with the appurtenances thereunto belonging, both in temporals and spirituals; he paying the dues usually paid by that house. And we require, that within the space of the next ten years, he shall, at his own cost and charge, erect a castle there, completely finished, both as to size, workmanship, and materials." The body of the church, 180 feet in length, yet remains. The foundation walls of the commandery inclosed several acres. It was defen...

Volume: v. 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER II. ACTS OF RICHARD AS PROTECTOR. King Edward had in his lifetime constituted a coun- Council of the cil for the management of the household and other Prince of affairs of his son, the young Prince of Wales, until he should attain the age of fourteen. Among the number originally appointed of this council were the king's two brothers, Clarence and Gloucester, the Earl of Rivers, Lord Hastings, and several other persons of high authority in the state. John Alcock, Bishop of Worcester was president, Sir Thomas Vaughan was chief chamberlain to the prince, and Sir Richard Hawte controller of his household. These and a few others were always near young Edward's person, by virtue of their offices, while the rest were frequently at a distance. But the Earl of Rivers, his maternal uncle, held the most important post. He was called the young prince's governor, and had the charge of his person and education, and the complete control of his servants.1 1 Sloane MS. 3479, ff. 16, 28, 55. This MS. is a modern treatise on the Principality of WalesJ; but the informationhas evidently beencarefully collected from original sources; and at ff. 53b, 55, the ordinances for the Prince of Wales's household are quoted at length. They have been printed, but apparently from an imperfect copy, in the volume of 'Household Ordinances,' published by the Society of Antiquaries, p. 27. Young Edward was, at his father's death, in his thirteenth year; and even if his father had lived longer, these arrangements were to have terminated in a year and a half. But of course the mere fact of his being called to the th...

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: s.n.; Publication date: 1866; Subjects: Ireland; Biography

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Particularly the British and Irish, From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning Are Accurately Displayed : With a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions; Volume: 2 (BAB - BZO); Original Published by: Printed for T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others] in 1761 in 475 pages; Subjects: Biography; Great Britain; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Reference; History / Europe / Great Britain; Reference / Bibliographies & Indexes; Reference / Dictionaries;

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Persons in Every Nation, Particularly the British and Irish, From the Earliest Accounts of Time to the Present Period : Wherein Their Remarkable Actions or Sufferings, Their Virtues, Parts, and Learning Are Accurately Displayed : With a Catalogue of Their Literary Productions; Volume: 7 (JAB - LIV); Original Publisher: Printed for T. Osborne, J. Whiston and B. White, W. Strahan, T. Payne, W. Owen, and W. Johnston [and 7 others]; Publication date: 1762; Subjects: Biography; Great Britain; Biography

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 7; Original Publisher: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Publication date: 1818; Subjects: History / United States / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History / United States / General; Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh;

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Delivered on the 21st Nov., 1850, in Charleston, S. C., at the Request of the City Council; Original Published by: Steam power-press of Walker

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902. Excerpt: ... SIR FRANCIS DRAKE CHAPTER I THE HERO OF SEA-ROMANCE No name, in England's annals of the sea, has been surrounded with so dazzling a setting of romance as that of Sir Francis Drake. During his lifetime his adventures found no place in sober history. They invaded the realm of folklore and took strong hold on the popular fancy in the shape of marvellous tales and legends. But rising out of this wonderland of romance Drake will always take his place in history as a master in strategy, one of the most skilful of navigators, the leader in the movement which established England's supremacy on the sea, and the first great admiral in the development of modern naval science, which had its cradle in England, and which substituted the sailing-navy for the ancient rowing-navy. The stirring times into which Drake was born acted as a forcing-house for the growth of character. Boys turned into men at a bound. Bred in the nursery to the tune of war and revolution, they were trained by danger and privation to fight battles at an age when the boy of to-day is making ready for college. The youths of puritan England, rudely moulded in the preparatory school of life, were formed for a future of adventure and daring by hardships which to us appear inconceivable. The strange mixture of lax moral standards and fierce religious passion and bigotry, the light esteem in which human life was held, the rapid succession of startling events, the persecutions carried on in the name of a holy cause,--all these things went to forge men of singular and violent contrasts. Drake, the foremost sailor of the Reformation, the chief pirate of Queen Elizabeth, one of the greatest of England's admirals, was one of these men. Born in 1544 in the heat of the strife between catholics and protectants, ...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904. Excerpt: ... PREFACE. Very much has been written and much more embodied in the partial reports and exparte investigations of the so-called "Horrors of Andersonville" and the "inhuman treatment" of the prisoners of the Federal armies by the prison officials, and the agents of the Confederate State's War Department. These publications have emanated from the press of Northern publishers and have been inspired by a spirit of enmity which is evidently partisan and extremely vindictive. Doubtless, much that has been thus detailed of the privations and sufferings of the prisoners captured by our Confederate armies and sent for security to prison camps, is true. From the very nature of the imprisonment, prison life, at best, is one of privation. "War is hell on earth" said General Sherman when attempting to justify the enormity of acts perpetrated by his troops on the defenseless women and children of Georgia during his march to the sea. If there be any doubt of the truth of Sherman's declaration, he certainly made the proof of it conclusive as he rode at the head of an army that brought the terrors of Hell to the defenseless people of Georgia and the Carolinas, when his legions went plundering, murdering, and like savages, pillaging and then burning the homes of unresisting non-combatants. The rules and usages of civilized warfare require that all non-combatants should be immune from capture and that their rights of property should be respected and furthermore, that combatants should be held when captured as prisoners until properly exchanged; and, while under restraint as prisoners, that they should receive the same rations of food as were issued soldiers of the line, being treated, not as criminals, but as soldiers worthy of the respect and consideration of a chivalrous en...

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Lippincott in 1907 in 470 pages; Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877);

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: The author in 1870 in 97 pages; Subjects: Spiritualism; Biography & Autobiography / Religious; Body, Mind & Spirit / Parapsychology / General; Body, Mind & Spirit / Spiritualism;

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Title: Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles Ii and James Ii, Comprising His Diary From 1659 to 1669, Deciphered by the Rev. John Smith From the Original Short-Hand Ms. in the Pepysian Library, and a Selection From His Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke; Original Publisher: H. Colburn; Publication date: 1828; Subjects: Great Britain; Biography

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 3; Original Publisher: Robert Cadell, Edinburgh. John Murray and Whittaker and Co., London.; Publication date: 1837; Subjects: Biography

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838. Excerpt: ... INDEX OF PROPER NAMES. Abbeville, vi. 367, 381. Abbot, Mr, Comedian, iv. 30; vi. 55. « Abbot, The,' 3 vols, iii, 376, n.; v. 19--26. Abbotsford, i, 61, 178, 284; ii. 355, 378, 404; iii. 1, flitting to, passim; 49, 63, 64,75, 177, 178, 272, 273, 308, 311, 313, 388; iv. 30, 81, 100, 129, 138, 185, passim, 220, 255, passim, 303, 321, 339, 349, passim, 358, 375, 376; v. 1, passim, 14, 122, 145, 148, 162, 167, 171, 220, 230, pas-sim,240, 271, 277, 292, 299, 311, 320, passim, 337, 348, 374, passim, vi. 2, 87, 96, 133, 184, n, 223, 238, 246, 367; vii. 53, 57, 58, 90, 148, 217, 386, 393, 407. Abbotsford Club, v. 260. Abbotsford Hunt, v. 14, 145; vi. 121. Abercorn, Marquis of, ii. 118, 154, 266; iii. 70, 74, n. Abercorn, Marchioness of, ii. 118, 265. Abercromby, George, now Lord, 1, 50, 55, 146, 150, 153, n, 189, n, 207; vi. 140, 209, 328; vii. 114. Abercrombie, Dr, vi. 275; vii. 261, 277. Aberdeen, iii. 138. Advocates, vi. 262., Lord ii, 118; iii. 104, 368. Absalom and Achitophel,iii. 7; vi. 371. Abud and Co., vi. 350; vii. 83, 84, 87. Acland, Sir Thomas, vii. 126. Adam, Dr Alexander, 1, 31, &c, 92, 94, 96, 110., William Lord Chief Commissioner, 1, 391, n.; iii. 341, 343, 344; iv. 252, 273, 310; v. 21, passim, 80, 175, 188, 261; vi. 40, 194, 251, 298, 323, 340; vii. 14, 208, 213., Admiral, vi. 251, 341; vii. 14, 17, 208., Mrs, vi. 341.., Sir Charles, v. 22., Sir Frederick, iii. 354; vi. 340, 342; vii. 98, 99.., John Esq., vi. 194. Addington, Dr, vii. 135. Adolphus, Mr, vii 128., J. L. Esq.,'v. 293; vii. 52, 129, 219, 299. Extracts from his Memoranda, ib; his Letters on the Waverley Novels, v. 103, 121. Africa, ii. 13; vi. 285. Aiken, Miss (Mrs Barbauld), i. 235. Ainslie, Mr Robert, i. 173. Albania, a poem, ii. 364. Albums, vii. 124. Alconbury Hill, vii. 142....

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837. Excerpt: ... His correspondence with General Washington describes the frequent conferences and discussions he had with several successive ministers, and with the committees named to listen to his representations respecting the interests of the United States and those of the French merchants, which were, in fact, the same, but which were often injured by the fiscal laws, the various restraints imposed on French industry, the ancient habits of the government, and the desire of promoting the financial interests of the country. The American congress passed a vote giving the most honourable testimony of their affection, gratitude, and confidence towards him. The different states vied with each other in bestowing his name on their towns and counties. The freedom of the cities was offered him. He received fresh diplomas, granting to himself, his son, and descendants, the rights of citizenship of the United States. The State of Virginia placed his bust in its capital of Richmond. His marble bust was also presented to the city of Paris, by the minister of the United States, and received with great pomp at the Hotelde-Ville. It was placed in the principal hall, in which the electors assembled the 12th of July, 1789. In that same hall, Lafayette was afterwards elected commander-general of the Parisian troops, and in it, at a later period, we may say, that the revolution itself was achieved. That bust, guarded for a length of time by the national guard, was attacked by the Jacobins, and destroyed at the period of their successes, the 10th of August. In his correspondence with General Washington, Lafayette endeavoured to make him acquainted with the affairs of Europe, and mentioned his determination, in 1785, to make an experiment at his own expense in Cayenne, in relation to the ...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV ANTI-SLAVERY BEGINNINGS For the origin of Samuel E. Sewall's interest in the cause of the slaves, it would be no more than fair to go back to the year 1700, when his great-great-grandfather, the first chief justice, published "The Selling of Joseph," which was nothing more nor less than a vigorous anti-slavery pamphlet. "Originally and naturally," this pamphlet declares, "there is no such thing as slavery." This was precisely the position taken by the anti-slavery men of a later day, who never allowed themselves to use the term " owner " in speaking of the master of a slave. "These Ethiopians," said Judge Sewall further, "as black as they are, seeing they are the sons and daughters of the first Adam, the brethren and sisters of the last Adam, and the offspring of God; they ought to be treated with a respect agreeable." For sentiments such as these, "frowns and hard words " were his reward. The same reward awaited his descendant, when, more than a hundred years later, he raised his voice against slavery, now grown a hundred times more formidable. It is probable that from childhood he had recognized the evils of slavery. Certainly in the twenties, which were alike his and those of the century, he was ready to put his hand to the plough. One who had taught his sisters told Miss Robie, in after years, that it had always seemed to her " as if Martha and Sam were the originators of the anti-slavery movement," as they were undoubtedly "among the first anti-slavery writers." Of Martha's writings no traces remain. An article by her brother entitled " Remarks on Slavery in the United States " was printed in 1827 in the "Christian Examiner," and the same periodical accepted in 1831 his review of Stephen's "West India Slavery." Those were the days when the...

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 II. UTILITY OF THE LAKES.—INTERNAL NAVIGATION SUPERIOR TO RUSSIA. PETER THE GREAT AND CAPTAIN PERRY. THEORY OP EVAPORATION COMPARATIVE MEAN DEPTHS, NUMBER OF MILES, AND ELEVATION OF THE LAKES.—FISH.—EFFECTS OF THE LAKES ON THE TEMPERATURE. WAKMINO INFLUENCE OF LAKE HURON OVER THE WHOLE WESTERN PENINSULA. Canada is yet in her colonial dawn; but the dawn is one of cheering promise. She possesses a virgin soil, finely timbered forests, rich mineral ores, as yet little worked, and lands on the Huron tract of almost unrivalled fertility, with an immense water-power, which, when once put in use by a thriving and increasing population, will render her one of the greatest commercial countries in the world. Providence, by the gift of lakes, which from their vast extent may be fairly denominated inland seas, has marked her for a land of commerce. She enjoys the double advantage of an inland water communication, and an outward maritime one with Europe, the United States, South America, and the world in general. Her commercial relations are as yet only in their infancy. But what will they not be when the PETER THE GREAT AND CAPTAIN PERRY. 11 vast tract north-west of Lake Superior shall be opened for the reception of the produce of the West. Twelve thousand mariners are employed at present in the navigation of the lakes. Russia is the only commercial country that possesses the same natural advantages, though in an inferior degree, for the Russian lakes did not communicate with each other till the wisdom of her wise regenerator, Peter the Great, established a communication between them by the aid of Captain Perry, an English engineer, to whose genius Russia is indebted for her inland water communication by means of the canals he cut and the rivers he made navi...

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 1; Original Publisher: Little, Brown; Publication date: 1903; Subjects: United States; Biography

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909. Excerpt: ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN AN AMERICAN MIGRATION Family English not German. CHAPTER I. THE LINCOLNS IN NEW ENGLAND AND NEW JERSEY. As the Germans have given currency to the theory that Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, was of German ancestry and descended from a forebear by the name of "Linkhorn," in Pennsylvania, it has seemed worth while to test this theory in the light of the records of the Lincoln family. This study of the original documents relating to the Lincolns in the various significant centres of settlement in the colonial period makes it possible to follow the history of the migration of one of the most typical families in America and to trace the motives prompting the migration. Abraham Lincoln, the President, knew very little about the history of his family, as is shown by a passage in a letter which he wrote, while a Member of Congress, in 1848, to Hon. Solomon Lincoln, of Hingham, Massachusetts: "My father's name is Thomas. My grandfather's was Abraham, the same as my own. My grandfather went from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky about the year 1782, and two years afterwards was killed by the Indians. We have a vague tradition that my grandfather went from Pennsylvania to Virginia, and that he was a Quaker. Further than this I have never heard anything. It may do no harm to say that 'Abraham' and 'Mordecai' are common names in the Lincoln family." In an article contributed to Johnson's Encyclopaedia in 1859, Lincoln traces his ancestry, in a general way, back to New England. He had only a faint tradition of the connecting links in the migration of the various branches of the family from New England, and found the two chief arguments for his New England origin in the family tradition that they came from Massachusetts, and in...

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together With the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration; Original Published by: J.E. Potter in 1865 in 494 pages; Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State; History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877);

Subtitle: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence Together With the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography Volume: 11 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Original Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press Subjects: United States Biography

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: National Academy ofSciences in 1909 in 59 pages; Subjects: Naturalists; Biography

Publisher: University of Wisconsin--Madison Publication date: 1917 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: T. N. Foulis in 1905 in 132 pages; Description: Title within ornamental border, initials, head and tail pieces in colors.; Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Reference; Biography & Autobiography / Medical; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Poetry / General; Poetry / Inspirational & Religious; Poetry / Middle Eastern; Religion / Islam / Sufi;

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912. Excerpt: ... XIII JUDGE LOGAN AND LINCOLN HE terms of Lincoln's partnership with A Judge Logan are not known, but it may reasonably be inferred that the junior member of the firm received only a small percentage of the fees, for the business was almost entirely Logan's, and he was not by nature over-generous. Indeed, he had quarreled with his former partner, the brilliant orator Edward Dickenson Baker, on monetary matters; and it is probable that there were few members of the bar who would have been as tractable as Lincoln on the question of compensation. Certainly his style of living at that period indicated a very slender revenue, considering the standing of the firm; for even after his marriage with Miss Mary Todd, in November, 1842, he and his wife were not able to keep house, but lived at the Globe Tavern, where their room and board cost only four dollars a week; and still later in the partnership he wrote that he could not accept an invitation to visit Kentucky "because he was so poor and made so little headway that he dropped back in a month of idleness as much as he gained in a year's sowing." During all this time, however, the practice of the firm was steadily increasing and Logan was becoming rich; so it is fair to assume that Lincoln was not receiving the lion's share of the profits. It would have been surprising if business had not been prosperous, for the partners worked together in entire harmony, and Springfield was at that time the center of all things legal in Illinois. Not only were the United States courts located there, but the County Court, the Circuit Court, and the Supreme Court (the tribunal of last resort), and the State legislature likewise, held their sessions in the city, and the indications are that the firm reaped a rich harvest from all ...

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Publisher: Priv. print. [Press of I. Friedenwald] Publication date: 1892 Subjects: Educators Biography

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: G. Sully and Company in 1922 in 233 pages; Subjects: Reporters and reporting; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism;

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863. Excerpt: ... 13 JOHN HENRY FOLEY, RA, RH.A. John Henry Foley was born in Dublin on the 24th of May, 1818. From early life his tastes pointed to Art, which being cherished by his grandfather, Mr. Schrowder, a sculptor of the same city, he entered the Eoyal Dublin Society as a student at the age of thirteen, and in one year carried away the first prize in each of the four separate departments for the study of the figure, animals, architecture, and modelling. With the ambition common to men of genius, he determined upon making London his future home. He became a student of the Royal Academy at seventeen, and being soon admitted to the higher schools for the study of the "life," worked with such power and earnestness as to be awarded the first prize therein. This success dates his transition from the pupil to the master, the Academy Catalogue for 1839 containing his name as the author of two works, ' The Death of Abel, ' and that sweetly simple figure 'Innocence. ' In his twenty-second year (1840) appeared the 'Ino and Bacchus, ' a conception of such classic beauty and poetic feeling as to place him at once on a level with the master-spirits of his art. This charming composition now graces the vestibule of Bridgewater House, having been purchased in marble by that distinguished patron of art, Francis, first Earl of Ellesmere. Following this, and still indulging in the ideal fancies of the poet, in 1842 was produced 'The Houseless Wanderer, ' a shivering, girlish form, so touchingly expressive, the coldest heart might warm in response to its appeal for pity. It will be remembered that by this date the Westminster Hall competition, in 1844, was becoming the leading topic in art circles, as an occasion for demonstrating to the world the existence of an art element in the nat...

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Biography & AutobiographyStreets; Streets Ontario Toronto; Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Reference; History / Europe / Great Britain; Reference / Atlases; Travel / Maps & Road Atlases;

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Publishing House of the M. E. Church; Publication date: 1888; Description: Contents: v.1--From the year 1783-1804. v.2--From the year 1804-1818. v.3--From the year 1818-1840.; Subjects: Methodism; Biography

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V SEWARD AND STANTON: NEGRO SOLDIERS: LEGAL TENDER 1862-1864 A He preceding chapter was confined to Senator Fessenden's part in financial legislation, and this chapter will be given to other events participated in by him during the same period. The autumn of 1862 was gloomy in the North. The Federal armies had not met with an encouraging success. The fall elections went against the administration; Mr. Seward was the Secretary of State, Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, but there was a feeling in the North that the administration was not vigorous in maintaining and prosecuting the war. There was a desire for the removal of Mr. Seward and the substitution of a man who would be more vigorous than he in pushing the war. It was reported that Senator Fessenden was to succeed Mr. Seward, and he received many letters urging him not to decline if such a proposition was made. To all he replied that he would not consider the office, desiring no position other than the one he had and requesting that no action should be taken. Prior to this time Senator Fessenden had taken an interesting part in the confirmation of Mr. Stanton as Secretary of War. The practice had grown up of confirming appointments to the Cabinet without a reference to committees of the Senate, but the nomination by President Lincoln of Edwin M. Stanton for Secretary of War, in January, 1862, astounded the Senate because Mr. Stanton was known as a Democrat, and many believed that his appointment indicated the adoption of a peace policy by the administration concerning the war. Upon receipt by the Senate of the nomination, Senator Fessenden moved that action lay over. The Republican senators held a consultation and requested Senator Fessenden to confer with Mr. Chase, the then Secretary of the Tr...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875. Excerpt: ... and moustache, regular features, and splendid eyes; manly in bearing, courtly in address, and chivalrous in his feelings; a fearless yet judicious leader, he blended in his character and person those traits which traditionally associate with the cavalier and soldier; and in sealing with his blood his devotion and fidelity to his State and country, swells the long and mournful catalogue of heroes whose names and memories should be held in everlasting remembrance. Dr. Samuel Selden. JOHN Q. MARR, OF FAUQUIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA; CAPTAIN, WARRENTON RIFLES. John Q. Marr was born in Warrenton, Fauquier County, on the 27th of May, 1825. On his father's side he was principally of French, and on his mother's chiefly of English, descent. His father, John Marr, Esq., who died in 1848, was the grandson of a Frenchman, who, after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, is said to have sought with two brothers a refuge from tyranny in the wilds of America. The two brothers of this ancestor, soon after their arrival in this country, removed to Carolina. It has been said that at this time of their history the family name was La Mar, the article having been afterwards dropped. The brother who remained settled in what afterwards became the county of Fauquier. He had two sons, Daniel and Thomas. Thomas was killed at Braddock's defeat, being in the colonial troops under the command of Washington. Daniel was the father of numerous children, only one of whom now (1872) survives (Daniel' Marr, Esq., of Campbell County, Virginia). Daniel Marr, the elder, died in 1826. His eldest son, John Marr, the father of John Q. Marr, was for many years a resident of Warrenton, the county seat of Fauquier. The following notice of him appears in the newspaper published in his town not long after...

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2; Original Publisher: Printed for Byrch and Small; Publication date: 1807; Subjects: Women; Biography

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843. Excerpt: ... Anna Letitia Barbauld, a name long dear to the admirers of genius, and lovers of virtue, was born at the village of Kibworth Harcourt, in Leicestershire, on June 20th, 1743, the eldest child and only daughter of John Aiken, D. D., and Jane his wife, daughter of the Rev. John Jennings, of Kibworth, and descended by her mother from the ancient family of Wingate, of Harlington, in Bedfordshire. That quickness of apprehension, by which she was eminently distinguished, manifested itself from her earliest infancy. Her mother thus writes respecting her, in a letter which is still preserved: " I once indeed knew a little girl who was as eager to learn, as her instructors could be to teach her, and who, at two years old, could read sentences and little stories in her wise book, roundly, without spelling, and in half a year more could read as well as most women; but I never knew such another, and I believe never shall." Her education was entirely domestic, and principally conducted by her excellent mother, a lady whose manners were polished by the early introduction into good company, which her family connections had procured her; whilst her mind had been cultivated and her principles formed, partly by the instructions of religious and enlightened parents, partly by the society of the celebrated Dr. Doddridge, who was for some years domesticated under her paternal roof. In the middle of the last century a strong prejudice still existed against imparting to females any tincture of classical learning; and the father of Miss Aiken, proud as he justly was of her uncommon capacity, long refused to gratify her earnest desire of being initiated in this kind of knowledge. At length, however, she in some degree overcame his scruples; and with his assistance she enabled hers...

The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free. Subtitle: A Series of Life-Sketches Indicating the Growth and Prosperity of the Baptist Churches as Represented in the Lives and Labors of Eminent Men and Women in Missouri Original Publisher: Missouri Baptist Historical Society Publication date: 1918 Subjects: Baptists; Missouri; Religion / Sermons / Christian; Religion / Christianity / Baptist

The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 14; Original Publisher: C. Scribner's sons; Publication date: 1907; Subjects: Biography