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The public knew nothing as to what was left unprinted, and there was therefore a general feeling of
gratification when it was announced some eighteen years ago that a new edition was to be published by the
Rev. Mynors Bright, with the addition of new matter equal to a third of the whole. It was understood that at
last the Diary was to appear in its entirety, but there was a passage in Mr. Bright's preface which suggested a
doubt respecting the necessary completeness. He wrote: It would have been tedious to the reader if I had
copied from the Diary the account of his...
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1660-61. At the end of the last and the beginning of this year, I do live in one of the houses belonging to the
Navy Office, as one of the principal officers, and have done now about half a year. After much trouble with
workmen I am now almost settled; my family being, myself, my wife, Jane, Will. Hewer, and
Wayneman,--[Will Wayneman appears by this to have been forgiven for his theft (see ante). He was dismissed
on July 8th, 1663.]--my girle's brother. Myself in constant good health, and in a most handsome and thriving
condition. Blessed be Almighty God for it. I am now...
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1661-62. January 1st. Waking this morning out of my sleep on a sudden, I did with my elbow hit my wife a
great blow over her face and nose, which waked her with pain, at which I was sorry, and to sleep again. Up
and went forth with Sir W. Pen by coach towards Westminster, and in my way seeing that the Spanish
Curate was acted today, I light and let him go alone, and I home again and sent to young Mr. Pen and his
sister to go anon with my wife and I to the Theatre. That done, Mr. W. Pen came...
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Lay with my wife at my Lord's lodgings, where I have been these two nights, till 10 o'clock with great
pleasure talking, then I rose and to White Hall, where I spent a little time walking among the courtiers, which
I perceive I shall be able to do with great confidence, being now beginning to be pretty well known among
them. Then to my wife again, and found Mrs. Sarah with us in the chamber we lay in. Among other discourse,
Mrs. Sarah tells us how the King sups at least four or [five] times every week with my Lady Castlemaine; and
most often stays...
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April 1st. Up, and to dress myself, and call as I use Deb. to brush and dress me . . . , and I to my office, where
busy till noon, and then out to bespeak some things against my wife's going into the country to-morrow, and
so home to dinner, my wife and I alone, she being mighty busy getting her things ready for her journey, I all
the afternoon with her looking after things on the same account, and then in the afternoon out and all alone to
the King's house, and there sat in an upper box, to hide myself, and...
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January 1st. Up, and all the morning in my chamber making up some accounts against this beginning of the
new year, and so about noon abroad with my wife, who was to dine with W. Hewer and Willet at Mrs.
Pierces, but I had no mind to be with them, for I do clearly find that my wife is troubled at my friendship with
her and Knepp, and so dined with my Lord Crew, with whom was Mr. Browne, Clerk of the House of Lords,
and Mr. John Crew. Here was mighty good discourse, as there is always: and among other things my Lord
Crew...
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Some men choose to live in crowded cities;--others are pleased with the peaceful quiet of a country farm;
while some love to roam through wild forests, and make their homes in the wilderness. The man of whom I
shall now speak, was one of this last class. Perhaps you never heard of DANIEL BOONE, the Kentucky
rifleman. If not, then I have a strange and interesting story to tell you.
If, when a child was born, we knew that he was to become a remarkable man, the time and place of his birth
would, perhaps, be always remembered. But as this can not be known,...
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Mrs. Piozzi, by her second marriage, was by her first marriage the Mrs. Thrale in whose house at Streatham
Doctor Johnson was, after the year of his first introduction, 1765, in days of infirmity, an honoured and a
cherished friend. The year of the beginning of the friendship was the year in which Johnson, fifty-six years
old, obtained his degree of LL.D. from Dublin, and--though he never called himself Doctor--was thenceforth
called Doctor by all his friends.
Before her marriage Mrs. Piozzi had been Miss Hesther Lynch Salusbury, a young lady of a good Welsh
family. She was born in the year 174O, and she lived...
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On the twelfth of February, 1909, the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, Americans
gathered together, throughout the entire country, to honour the memory of a great American, one who may
come to be accepted as the greatest of Americans. It was in every way fitting that this honour should be
rendered to Abraham Lincoln and that, on such commemoration day, his fellow-citizens should not fail to bear
also in honoured memory the thousands of other good Americans who like Lincoln gave their lives for their
country and without whose loyal devotion Lincoln's leadership would have been in vain....
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The recent death of Sir Starr Jameson reminded the public of the South African War, which was such an
engrossing subject to the British public at the close of the 'nineties and the first years of the present century.
Yet though it may seem quite out of date to reopen the question when so many more important matters occupy
attention, the relationship between South Africa and England is no small matter. It has also had its influence
on actual events, if only by proving to the world the talent which Great Britain has displayed in the
administration of her vast Colonies and the tact with...
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I have no hesitation in commending this small volume as containing so far as its space permits, a good picture
of my beloved Father and a record of much that made his life of interest and importance to the world.
It does not, of course, profess to cover anything like the whole story of his many years of world-wide service.
It could not do so. For any such complete history we must wait for that later production which may, I hope, be
possible before very long when there has been time to go fully through the masses of diaries, letters and other
papers he has...
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have often been asked the question, Why don't you write a book? And I have said, What is the use? What
good will it do? I have thought about it time and time again, and have come to the conclusion to write a story
of my life, the good and the bad, and if the story will be a help, and check some one that's just going wrong,
set him thinking, and point him on the right road, praise God!
I was born in Hudson City, N. J., over forty years ago, when there were not as many houses in that town as
there are...
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JOHN TYLER, second son of Judge John Tyler, governor of Virginia from 1808 to 1811, and Mary
Armistead, was born at Greenway, Charles City County, Va., March 29, 1790. He was graduated at William
and Mary College in 1807. At college he showed a strong interest in ancient history; was also fond of poetry
and music, and was a skillful performer on the violin. In 1809 he was admitted to the bar, and had already
begun to obtain a good practice when he was elected to the legislature. Took his seat in that body in
December, 1811. Was here a firm supporter of Mr. Madison's...
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On Sunday morning, October seventh, 1849, Reuben A. Riley and his wife, Elizabeth Marine Riley, rejoiced
over the birth of their second son. They called him James Whitcomb. This was in a shady little street in the
shady little town of Greenfield, which is in the county of Hancock and the state of Indiana. The young James
found a brother and a sister waiting to greet him--John Andrew and Martha Celestia, and afterward came Elva
May--Mrs. Henry Eitel-- Alexander Humbolt and Mary Elizabeth, who, of all, alone lives to see this
collection of her brother's poems....
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Not long ago, a party of friends were sitting at luncheon in a suburb of London, when one of them happened
to make some reference to Maple Grove and Selina, and to ask in what county of England Maple Grove was
situated. Everybody immediately had a theory. Only one of the company (a French gentleman, not well
acquainted with English) did not recognise the allusion. A lady sitting by the master of the house (she will, I
hope, forgive me for quoting her words, for no one else has a better right to speak them) said, 'What a curious
sign it is of Jane Austen's...
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[Sleight-of-hand theories alone cannot explain the mysteries of magic as practiced by that eminent
Frenchman who revolutionized the entire art, and who was finally called upon to help his government out of a
difficuity--Robert-Houdin. The success of his most famous performances hung not only on an incredible
dexterity, but also on high ingenuity and moral courage, as the following pages from his Memoirs will
prove to the reader. The story begins when the young man of twenty was laboring patiently as apprentice to a
watchmaker.]
In order to aid my progress and afford me relaxation, my master recommended me to study some treatises on
mechanics in general,...
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There are, perhaps, few tests of excellence so sure as the popular verdict on a work of art a hundred years after
its accomplishment. So much time must be allowed for the swing and rebound of taste, for the despoiling of tawdry splendours and to permit the work of art itself to form a public capable of appreciating it. Such
marvellous fragments reach us of Elizabethan praises; and we cannot help recalling the number of copies of
'Prometheus Unbound' sold in the lifetime of the poet. We know too well what porridge had John Keats, and
remember with misgiving the turtle to which we...
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The following brief memoirs of a beautiful, engaging, and, in many respects, highly gifted woman require
little in the way of introduction. While we may trace same little negative disingenuousness in the writer, in
regard to a due admission of her own failings, sufficient of uncoloured matter of fact remains to show the
exposed situation of an unprotected beauty--or, what is worse, of a female of great personal and natural
attraction, exposed to the gaze of libertine rank and fashion, under the mere nominal guardianship of a
neglectful and profligate husband. Autobiography of this class is sometimes dangerous; not so that of Mrs.
Robinson, who conceals...
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IT is late, so this can be only a note--to tell you that we arrived here safely, and will take the stage for Fort
Lyon to-morrow morning at six o'clock. I am thankful enough that our stay is short at this terrible place,
where one feels there is danger of being murdered any minute. Not one woman have I seen here, but there are
men--any number of dreadful-looking men--each one armed with big pistols, and leather belts full of
cartridges. But the houses we saw as we came from the station were worse even than the men. They looked, in
the moonlight, like huge cakes...
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Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, was born in the city of New York,
October 27, 1858. His ancestors on the paternal side were of an old Knickerbocker family, and on the
maternal side of Scotch-Irish descent. He was educated at home under private tuition and prepared for
matriculation into Harvard, where he was graduated in 1880. He spent the year of 1881 in study and travel.
During the years 1882-1884 he was an assemblyman in the legislature of New York. During this term of
service he introduced the first civil service bill in the legislature in 1883, and its passage was...
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This Introduction was published in the Swiss newspapers in December, 1917, with an episode of
the novel and a note explaining the original title, _L'Un contre Tous_. This somewhat ironical name was
suggested--with a difference--by La Boëtie's _Le Contr' Un_; but it must not be supposed that the author
entertained the extravagant idea of setting one man in opposition to all others; he only wishes to summon the
personal conscience to the most urgent conflict of our time, the struggle against the herd-spirit.]
This book is not written about the war, though the shadow of the war lies over it. My theme is that the
individual...
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Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The
Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous
epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly
represented by Voltaire, the Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself--a struggle to which, after many fierce
intestine quarrels and sanguinary wars throughout Europe and America, has succeeded the prevalence of those
more tolerant and rational principles by which the statesmen of our own day are actuated....
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One of the most ancient legends handed down to us by the early Church is that of St. Cecilia, the patroness of
music and musicians. She is known to have been honoured by Christians as far back as the third century, in
which she is supposed to have lived.
Doubtless much of fancy has been added, in all the ensuing years, to the facts of Cecilia's life and death. Let
us, however, take the legend as it stands. It says that St. Cecilia was a noble Roman lady, who lived in the
reign of the Emperor Alexander Severus. Her parents, who secretly professed Christianity, brought...
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One look back--as we hurry o'er the plain, Man's years speeding us along-- One look back! From the hollow
past again, Youth, come flooding into song! Tell how once, in the breath of summer air, Winds blew fresher
than they blow; Times long hid, with their triumph and their care, Yesterday--many years ago! E. E. BOWEN.
The wayfarer who crosses Lincoln's Inn Fields perceives in the midst of them a kind of wooden temple, and
passes by it unmoved. But, if his curiosity tempts him to enter it, he sees, through an aperture in the boarded
floor, a slab of stone bearing this inscription:...
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I am much vexed with myself for not having written this letter sooner. There were several things I wanted to
say respecting the need of perseverance in painting as well as in other businesses, which it would take me too
long to say in the time I have at command--so I must just answer the main question. Your son has very
singular gifts for painting. I think the work he has done at the College nearly the most promising of any that
has yet been done there, and I sincerely trust the apparent want of perseverance has hitherto been only the
disgust of a creature...
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Weary of boarding at seashore and mountain, tired of traveling in search of comfort, hating hotel life, I visited
a country friend at Gooseville, Conn. (an assumed name for Foxboro, Mass.), and passed three happy weeks
in her peaceful home.
Far away at last from the garish horrors of dress, formal dinners, visits, and drives, the inevitable and
demoralizing gossip and scandal; far away from hotel piazzas, with their tedious accompaniments of corpulent
dowagers, exclusive or inquisitive, slowly dying from too much food and too little exercise; ennuied spinsters;
gushing buds; athletic collegians, cigarettes in mouths and hands in pockets; languid, drawling dudes; old
bachelors, fluttering around...
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Kindness to the animal kingdom is the first, or a first principle in the growth of true philanthropy. Young
Lincoln once waded across a half-frozen river to rescue a dog, and stopped in a walk with a statesman to put
back a bird that had fallen out of its nest. Such a heart was trained to be a leader of men, and to be crucified
for a cause. The conscience that runs to the call of an animal in distress is girding itself with power to do
manly work in the world.
The story of Beautiful Joe awakens an intense interest, and sustains it through...
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This is not a biography in the ordinary sense. The exhaustive Life and Letters of Booker T. Washington
remains still to be compiled. In this more modest work we have simply sought to present and interpret the
chief phases of the life of this man who rose from a slave boy to be the leader of ten millions of people and to
take his place for all time among America's great men. In fact, we have not even touched upon his childhood,
early training, and education, because we felt the story of those early struggles and privations had been
ultimately well told in his own...
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Germanicus, the father of Caius Caesar, and son of Drusus and the younger Antonia, was, after his adoption
by Tiberius, his uncle, preferred to the quaestorship [377] five years before he had attained the legal age, and
immediately upon the expiration of that office, to the consulship [378]. Having been sent to the army in
Germany, he restored order among the legions, who, upon the news of Augustus's death, obstinately refused
to acknowledge Tiberius as emperor [379], and offered to place him at the head of the state. In which affair it
is difficult to say, whether his regard to filial duty, or the firmness...
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This Drusus, during the time of his being quaestor and praetor, commanded in the Rhaetian and German wars,
and was the first of all the Roman generals who navigated the Northern Ocean [466]. He made likewise some
prodigious trenches beyond the Rhine [467], which to this day are called by his name. He overthrew the
enemy in several battles, and drove them far back into the depths of the desert. Nor did he desist from
pursuing them, until an apparition, in the form of a barbarian woman, of more than human size, appeared to
him, and, in the Latin tongue, forbad him to proceed any...
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