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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 152 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 77045 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 74 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 65 Mr. 60 England 54 God 50 London 48 John 43 man 39 New 39 France 35 Lord 32 time 31 Mrs. 29 Sir 29 Paris 27 great 27 King 26 life 25 Miss 25 Charles 23 french 22 year 22 York 22 William 21 St. 21 Rome 20 day 20 George 19 illustration 19 Mary 18 Dr. 17 work 17 Henry 17 English 16 Lady 16 Church 15 Washington 15 General 15 America 14 James 13 good 13 english 13 Scotland 13 Madame 12 Napoleon 12 Louis 12 Italy 12 Elizabeth 11 States 11 Queen 11 Duke 10 South Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9711 most 471 well 331 least 15 goethe 14 worst 11 hard 8 highest 5 soon 5 lest 4 long 3 near 3 finest 3 exprest 2 youngest 2 sayest 2 oftenest 2 greatest 2 fast 1 ¦ 1 wisest 1 tempest 1 strongest 1 stoutest 1 stand--"sixty 1 speakest 1 sittest 1 shore:-- 1 sermons,"--the 1 over_--which 1 openest 1 noblest 1 loudest 1 lookest 1 lines:-- 1 laurringtons"--the 1 innermost 1 historian--"_the 1 hearest 1 happiest,--as 1 freest 1 farthest 1 est 1 enemy:--the 1 close 1 cleverest 1 clearest 1 chiefest 1 benevolence:-- 1 belongest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 www.gutenberg.org 16 www.gutenberg.net 11 archive.org 3 www.pgdpcanada.net 2 www.archive.org 1 www.freeliterature.org 1 dp.rastko.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 5 http://archive.org 3 http://www.pgdpcanada.net 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47750/47750-h/47750-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47750/47750-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46013/46013-h/46013-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46013/46013-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45314/45314-h/45314-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45314/45314-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44065/44065-h/44065-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44065/44065-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43058/43058-h/43058-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/43058/43058-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39079/39079-h/39079-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39079/39079-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32363/32363-h/32363-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32363/32363-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44065 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44064 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/1/5/27157/27157-h/27157-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/7/1/5/27157/27157-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/6/1/4/26146/26146-h/26146-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/6/1/4/26146/26146-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/3/5/9/23595/23595-h/23595-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/3/5/9/23595/23595-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/3/2/9/23295/23295-h/23295-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/3/2/9/23295/23295-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/1/9/20196/20196-h/20196-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/0/1/9/20196/20196-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/5/9/18598/18598-h/18598-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/5/9/18598/18598-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/5/9/18597/18597-h/18597-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/8/5/9/18597/18597-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/1/6/15161/15161-h/15161-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/1/6/15161/15161-h.zip 1 http://www.freeliterature.org 1 http://www.archive.org/details/mylifemanystates00trairich 1 http://www.archive.org/details/greatmenfamouswo07hornuoft 1 http://dp.rastko.net 1 http://archive.org/details/wanderlust00reyn 1 http://archive.org/details/portraitsofcurio00londiala 1 http://archive.org/details/marietarnowskawi00vivauoft 1 http://archive.org/details/famousamericanbe00peac 1 http://archive.org/details/apologyforlifeof01cibb 1 http://archive.org/details/anapologyforlife02cibbuoft Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 2 ccx074@pglaf.org 1 william.fishburne@verizon.net 1 seattle717@yahoo.com Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 39 _ is _ 34 one does not 34 world has ever 31 _ was _ 30 _ did _ 27 man is not 25 life was not 25 work was not 24 time went on 21 mother did not 19 man was not 19 men are not 19 men do not 19 time was not 18 one was more 18 people do not 17 life is not 17 man was more 17 one had ever 16 _ was not 16 people did not 16 years went by 15 _ had _ 14 heart was full 14 man did not 14 things were not 13 _ did not 13 father did not 13 man does not 13 man was ever 13 work went on 12 father was not 12 men were not 12 mind was not 12 one is not 12 people were not 12 world is not 11 _ is not 11 _ were _ 11 heart was heavy 11 heart went out 10 _ have _ 10 life is very 10 man had ever 10 mind is not 10 people are not 10 world was not 9 country has ever 9 days gone by 9 life did not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 time has not yet 4 time was not yet 3 death was no less 3 man is not so 3 men do not always 3 people were not satisfied 3 time was not ripe 3 world was not worthy 2 _ was not only 2 child was not napoleon 2 children were not geniuses 2 day has not yet 2 days was not egyptian 2 days was not only 2 death was not terrible 2 father was not unmindful 2 father was not very 2 hands were not well 2 heart are not only 2 heart was not really 2 house was not large 2 letters are not genuine 2 life had not yet 2 life was not merely 2 life was not worth 2 man has no more 2 man is not ashamed 2 man is not necessarily 2 man was not merely 2 men are not all 2 men had no desire 2 men were not idle 2 mind was not great 2 name was not untouched 2 one is no longer 2 one is no more 2 people are no less 2 people are not always 2 people are not so 2 things are not so 2 time is not far 2 time was not entirely 2 time was not handsome 2 women did not even 2 work was no mere 2 work was not yet 2 world is not so 1 _ am not weak 1 _ am not willing 1 _ are not at A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 31479 author = Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) title = Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century date = keywords = Bird; Bourboulon; Brassey; Bremer; East; England; Europe; France; Frederika; God; Hell; Hester; Italy; Lady; Madame; Martineau; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Nile; Pfeiffer; Queen; South; Tinné; Trollope; american; chinese; day; english; european; french; great; life; like; long; oriental; russian; traveller; turkish; woman summary = "When I rose next morning, my face was one great wound, and for a long One day, our traveller met an old woman, blind and paralytic, whom her Of those beautiful descriptions of nature which lend so great a charm to Tinné''s men were vainly seeking to track the great river-horse, a huge several days; and soon discovered, like other voyagers, how little the country has never enjoyed a good reputation among travellers, and Madame Having made the journey from China to Europe five times by sea, Madame On the following day our travellers turned aside to visit the famous "You have come a great distance," said Lady Hester to her visitor,[21] Kinglake, while travelling in the East, made his way to Lady Hester''s the sharp needle-like rocks that form the point of the island." Two days the natural rock, and worked smooth.'' Fancy the long well-opened eyes, id = 10655 author = Airy, George Biddell title = Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy date = keywords = Admiralty; Airy; April; Astr; Astronomer; August; Board; Cambridge; College; December; February; Greenwich; January; July; June; London; Lord; Lunar; March; November; Observatory; October; Paper; Playford; Prof.; Report; Royal; September; Sir; Smith; Society; South; Theory; Transit; University; Visitors; observation summary = survey work, the establishment of time-balls at different places, his time was also given to Lectures, generally on current astronomical Herschel.--On Nov. 13th I gave the Royal Astronomical Society a Paper Greenwich Observatory this year.--I was at this time pressing Tulley, Observatory, visiting Greenwich once a week (at least for some time), Greenwich, and worked for a long time in the Computing Room.--And in Observatory, and a great deal of correspondence followed: the plans time-signals, moved by an original clock at the Royal Observatory; and great value of the Greenwich Lunar Observations to Prof. observed at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich. Observatory which has occupied any of my time within the last year is the Planetary Observations made at the Royal Observatory in the years Lunar Theory, the great work which for some years had occupied much of Observations made at Cambridge Observatory Observations made at the Royal Observatory, id = 25941 author = Allen, F. G. (Frank Gibbs) title = Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings date = keywords = Bible; Bro; Byrd; CHAPTER; Christ; Christianity; Church; Father; God; Guide; Jesus; John; Lord; Mount; Saviour; Son; Sunday; christian; life; man; meeting; time summary = have become one myself, the society of good, faithful men of God brings way of life and had the precious promises of God. An ungodly man may be For the year 1868, the church at Crittenden wanted all my time, and I In August of this year, I held another meeting for my old home church, kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, and on the second Lord''s I engaged to preach for Mt. Byrd Church one-half my time, beginning the a long time, and was not meeting on the Lord''s day. In August I held another good meeting at my old home church--Pleasant walks forth into a world where life is parallel with the ages of God. An intelligent, expansive being that will never cease to be--what a God supplies the bread of life, but He does not compel men the God-man, Christ Jesus. id = 4529 author = Allen, Grant title = Biographies of Working Men date = keywords = Bath; Edward; England; Garfield; George; Gibson; Herschel; Liverpool; London; Millet; Mr.; Rome; Stephenson; Tam; Telford; William; man; work summary = and learn how men and masons went about their work in the busy centres Fully to describe the great work which the mature engineer constructed memorials of Telford''s great and useful life; impossible to read the invention, like all other great inventions, was not the work of one day Killingworth some day and see my engine at work," said Stephenson, From the day that Gibson arrived at man''s estate, the great dream of help regretting when he saw other men turning out work of such great works), at a paying price, too, which was a great point for the young certainly started in life far better equipped than most working men''s Hard as he worked, little Francois'' time was not entirely taken up with great painter." He accepted Millet as his pupil; and the young man set inventions and engineering works; or, again, like Herschel and and began life in earnest as a working man. id = 6492 author = Allen, Grant title = Biographies of Working Men date = keywords = Bath; Edward; England; Garfield; George; Gibson; Herschel; Liverpool; London; Millet; Mr.; Rome; Stephenson; Tam; Telford; William; great; man; work summary = learn how men and masons went about their work in the busy centres of Fully to describe the great work which the mature engineer constructed memorials of Telford''s great and useful life; impossible to read the great inventions, was not the work of one day or one man. day and see my engine at work," said Stephenson, confidently; "and if humble origin--working men who have introduced great improvements in From the day that Gibson arrived at man''s estate, the great dream of help regretting when he saw other men turning out work of such great certainly started in life far better equipped than most working men''s Hard as he worked, little Francois'' time was not entirely taken up with town, where he was able to do three hours'' work out of school time inventions and engineering works; or, again, like Herschel and and began life in earnest as a working man. id = 16486 author = Anonymous title = Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton date = keywords = Charles; Claimant; Dr.; Duke; Earl; Edward; England; France; George; Henry; House; Howard; Ireland; James; John; King; Lady; Lord; Louis; Madame; Mr.; Mrs.; Olive; Orton; Paris; Prince; Roger; Sir; St.; Temple; Tichborne; Wilmot; french summary = rightful heir of the great family whose honours and estates he sought. was evidently the second man''s master, said to the lady that the place Hastings took his place in the House of Lords as Earl of Huntingdon. At his death he left one son, Charles, who assumed the title of Earl disturbed state of the times, the so-called Lord Banbury having At his death Charles, the third assumed Earl of Banbury, left a son ARTHUR ORTON--WHO CLAIMED TO BE SIR ROGER CHARLES DOUGHTY TICHBORNE, If the man now in prison is Sir Roger Tichborne, then Roger one day becoming the head of the old house of Tichborne, which in a letter to Mr. Gibbes had said that her son was for three years at that Lady Tichborne recognises her son," and John Coyne having Orton to the Claimant''s wife, asking whether "Sir Roger Tichborne, id = 35544 author = Anonymous title = Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies. Volume I date = keywords = Bacon; Chaucer; Earl; Edward; England; France; God; Henry; III; John; King; London; Oxford; Philip; Richard; Scots; Sir; Wiclif; Winchester; english; french summary = great-uncle King David of Scotland, who had been for some time in French king, he lost no time in setting about the great enterprise to were the days in which a king of England, to hold his place, really the great English king, both in his outer and inner man, a theme which of the year 1172, the young king Henry, who was married to the daughter of the French king, Louis VII., and had just been crowned a second time The war that followed between Henry and his sons, aided by King Henry King of England was here come to invoke God and the holy martyr his son of his first wife was crowned king and called Edward the Second, before given much ado to the said good King Edward the First, conquered an arrow, then he said to the king, Sir, depart hence, for it is time; id = 45314 author = Anonymous title = Portraits of Curious Characters in London, &c. &c. With Descriptive and Entertaining Ancedotes. date = keywords = Dancer; Elwes; England; John; London; Martin; Mr.; Sir; Tempest; house; illustration; man; time; year summary = The Life of John Elwes, Esq. The Flying Pye-Man lived in a large house, with extensive gardens, known by the name of distinguished persons who paid their visits at his father''s house, was only four years old; so that little of the singular character of Mr. Elwes is to be attributed to him: but from the mother it may be traced What may appear extraordinary, this man lived in his place for some a great house in Portland Place: sometimes in a little room, and a Mr. Elwes was at this time nearly sixty years old, but was in one word, Mr. Elwes, as a public man, voted and acted in the House of "Ay, ay," said old Elwes; "he will soon see the end of his money!" to live many more years; and, for a man of his great age, can walk At the time he lived with Mr. Dancer, he was upwards of sixty, and id = 27502 author = Ball, Thomas Hanly title = Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 date = keywords = Beethoven; Chandos; Duke; England; Handel; Messiah; Mr.; great; man; music; time summary = Before I say of that great composer and extraordinary man whose life I great influence over the mind of a man who considered musicians Piccadilly, the music had been composed by Handel. Anthems of Mr. Handel, to the great pleasure of the company, and amidst For a long time Handel had been wished for in Ireland. Handel was then fifty-six years old! performed at the Music Hall, in Fishamble-street, Mr. Handel''s new grand grand Oratorio, the Messiah, was performed in the New Music Hall, in A few days after the performance of the Messiah, Handel waited on Lord Music by Handel._ Yes: this was a man who had done honour to music as much by the nobility "The effect of music on a man should be to strike fire from his soul." this great work, and of which Beethoven many years afterwards still Beethoven, like most great men, had many peculiarities. id = 13916 author = Bashkirtseff, Marie title = Marie Bashkirtseff (From Childhood to Girlhood) date = keywords = B----; Duc; God; H----; January; M----; Mamma; Nice; Rome summary = of the little girl living among idle people and dreaming of ancient and old-fashioned phrase, since people no longer love." a very old-fashioned phrase, since people no longer love. account--yes, a little, but because all these people remind me of pleasure to the man I love, and I shall be happy. God. Since I desire so great a happiness, I must deserve it. "The first thing to be done in Rome," said Mamma, "is to get "Yes," said Mamma, "I was told that you received him yesterday from I left Nice to-day with my aunt, I was ready to cry every instant. become Galatea, let people love me, if they like! I have told Mamma that I was going to study singing, and I shall do the time those who would like to do things cannot. Nice, miserable city, why cannot I live there as I like? id = 11962 author = Beers, Clifford Whittingham title = A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography date = keywords = God; Governor; Haven; Hospital; Hyde; Jekyll; June; Mr.; New; State; Yale; York; attendant; day; doctor; letter; man; patient; room; time summary = remark; and several times I said, "I wish it was over!" For I believed day in the room with the aged man, sick unto death. the time they were hurt until I again began to talk--two years later--I mind, not only were the doctors and attendants detectives; each patient time, the attendants naturally grew careless, and often locked a door Many times a day I would tell the attendants friendly way, the attendant in charge, and ask him to permit my new Unfortunately for me, my good attendant soon left the institution to attendant placed me in the strait-jacket during the day for refusing to doctor put on a knowing look, but said nothing and soon left the room. continued abuse often causes death), this man lived a long time--five said: "A patient in this ward--a man in his right mind, who leaves here A free man on New Year''s Day, id = 20196 author = Blore, George Henry title = Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies date = keywords = Bishop; Bright; Carlyle; Charles; Church; College; Dickens; Edinburgh; England; English; Gallery; Gladstone; Government; Green; Henry; House; India; John; Lawrence; Lister; London; Lord; Morier; Morris; Mr.; Napier; National; Oxford; Parliament; Patteson; Peel; Rhodes; Robert; Sir; Tennyson; Watts; William; british; note summary = sixteen years of public service, writing a family letter, says, ''I feel For the first two years of married life Carlyle''s scheme of living on a magazine; and in the hands of Carlyle they came to life again and worked First, like a true pupil of Sir John Moore, he set to work thoroughly to years of age were not to work more than nine hours a day, and young Here John spent two years, working at his books by fits and When the time came for John Lawrence to take up his work, his brother five years of happy childhood till his father''s work took the family to time being.'' This quality, which many great men put into their work, residence in Oxford for a year, brought no great change into his life. Green''s school life ended in 1852, the year in which his father died. id = 12081 author = Bolton, Sarah Knowles title = Lives of Girls Who Became Famous date = keywords = Alcott; Boston; Brassey; Browning; Elizabeth; England; Florence; Fry; George; God; Harriet; Hosmer; John; Lady; Livermore; London; Lyon; Margaret; Mary; Miss; Mitchell; Mott; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Paris; Rome; St.; Stowe; woman; work; year summary = we can, like Mrs. Stowe and Miss Alcott, do some kind of work to Had it not been for this, probably Mrs. Livermore, like many other noble women, would be to-day living quietly had been born into their home, and life, with its cares and its work, daughter said, years after, in writing of him: "His love for my mother devoted friend, and their little son "Pickie," five years old, the Later she visited Florence, where she met, several times, Mrs. Somerville, who, she says, "talks with all the readiness and clearness Every day the young man worked in his brewery, and in the evening till which so many children hear in home and school, till life seems a About this time the lovely sixteen-year-old daughter of Madam great work to do in this worlds there is little time for visiting; For fifteen years this happy wedded life, with its work of brain and id = 35950 author = Bolton, Sarah Knowles title = Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous date = keywords = Abraham; America; Cornell; England; France; Garrison; General; God; Grant; Greeley; Italy; King; Lincoln; London; Moody; Mr.; New; Ole; Paris; Peabody; President; Rome; Sheridan; South; Washington; York; great; illustration; man; work; year summary = honor to this man, both good and great, who gave nine million dollars to For a year he struggled on, saving every cent possible, and then Mr. Greeley gave him a place on the "Tribune," at twelve dollars a week. years afterward, in his greatness, then an old man, he went to this Faraday''s life,--a great man living in a whirl of work, yet taking time home-life; little children grew pinched and old; and mothers went too few days before she died, he said, "I am a broken down old man. showed little aptness for his work, when he gave his boy, at nine years his hand, said, "This, my boy, is to pay your way for a year. five days of work from morning till night, the young artist received a May you live a thousand years, and always be at the head of this great id = 57666 author = Bolton, Sarah Knowles title = Famous leaders among men date = keywords = Arnold; Beecher; Boston; Brooks; Bunyan; Charles; Christ; Church; December; Dr.; Emperor; England; France; French; General; God; Hamilton; Henry; John; Josephine; June; Kingsley; London; Lord; Mr.; Mrs.; Napoleon; Nelson; New; Paris; Phillips; Rev.; Sherman; Spurgeon; St.; Sunday; William summary = "Ah, my good woman," said Napoleon, "had I passed my time as you wished Years later, when Napoleon was Emperor, when asked to allow a person to "Men age fast on a field of battle," said Napoleon, "and I am no Years later he said, "Josephine was truly a most lovely woman, refined, Napoleon was strongly moved, and said years afterward, "I know not how The Austrian army had lost thirty thousand men in three days, Arnault said to Napoleon, "The Directory wishes to get you away; France Napoleon said bitterly, "England wants war. Napoleon said, "I have fought thirty battles like that, but I have never wonder Napoleon said, years later, of this terrible destruction of a "When I went there and entered upon my vocation of preaching," says Mr. Beecher, "I found a church, occupying a little brick building, with "With but twenty-five thousand men," said General Garfield, "formed in a id = 1564 author = Boswell, James title = Boswell''s Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood date = keywords = April; BOSWELL; Beauclerk; Bishop; Burke; College; Dictionary; Dr.; England; English; Friday; Garrick; General; Goldsmith; Johnson; Joshua; King; Langton; Lichfield; London; Lord; Madam; March; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Oxford; Pope; Reynolds; SAM; Scotland; Shakspeare; Sheridan; Sir; St.; Sunday; Taylor; Thrale; Williams; life; lordship; man summary = Johnson said, ''Nay, Sir, Alexander the Great, marching in triumph into Mr. Langton having signified a wish to read it, ''Sir, (said he) you shall been to see Johnson ride upon three horses, he said, ''Such a man, Sir, ''Why, Sir, (said Johnson,) it has been accounted for in three ways: Johnson said (sarcastically,) ''It seems, Sir, you have kept very good ''Sir, (said Johnson,) you talk of language, as if you had never done ''Sir, (said Johnson,) I am a great friend to publick amusements; mentioned, that an Irish gentleman said to Johnson, ''Sir, you have not situation?'' Johnson answered, ''Sir, he said all that a man SHOULD say: Mr. Green told me that Johnson once said to him, ''Sir, I should as soon Johnson said, ''Sir, I have seen him but once these twenty years. to whom I said, ''I think, Sir, Dr. Johnson and you meet only at id = 36519 author = Bower, Selina A. title = The Childhood of Distinguished Women date = keywords = Alice; Elizabeth; God; Holy; Jesus; Lady; Mary; Princess; Queen summary = influence of love, for the five little girls appear to have been good her love of the Greek language, led the young girl to study deeply, and to love God''s Holy Word, and very shortly before her sorrowful death, When the Lady Selina was nine years old, a child just her own age died, Queen Elizabeth, who was the second daughter of King Henry VIII., was When Elizabeth was between two and three years old, her mother, whose God, we owe a deep debt of gratitude, for the long and happy years which young daughter''s tastes, and at the early age of seven years the little Early in life, Felicia visited London, but cared little for its gaiety; Mary, Queen of Scots, led a gay, dissipated life, and her death was sad Perhaps if Mary had read God''s Word herself, and seen the beauty and id = 8160 author = Brandes, Georg title = Recollections of My Childhood and Youth date = keywords = Björnson; Bröchner; Copenhagen; David; Denmark; English; Europe; Filomena; France; Frederik; God; Goldschmidt; Heiberg; Italy; King; Lange; London; Maria; Mill; Müller; Napoleon; Nielsen; North; Paludan; Paris; Rome; Taine; University; danish; day; french; german; good; italian; life; like; little; long; nature; roman; time; year; young summary = But this time his kind mother has not let the girl come empty-handed. When I was six years old I heard the word "war" for the first time. little girl named Ingeborg, from an eleven or twelve-year-old boy The young people who came to his house might have wished him a younger, year was new and great poetry, and fascinated young people''s minds. is said that at one time Heiberg had held back; the well-bred old man, These Danish girls were likely to appeal to a young man just returned I saw Goldschmidt for the first time, when I was a young man, at a and the same time Italian to the people of the house, and French to me. stout, good-looking man, who works all day for his living, and has a and thought all the time of the little girl from whom they wished to id = 27157 author = Brooks, Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter) title = Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times date = keywords = Arvid; Baldwin; Brian; Charles; Emperor; England; FENN; Florence; France; Frederick; GORDON; Giovanni; HENTY; Harry; King; Lionel; Lord; Louis; Marcus; Medici; Mr.; Olaf; Prince; Rome; Saracen; St.; Tezcuco; William; boy; illustration; story; young summary = These stories of boy life, in the stirring days of old, have been based "Thou hast come in right fitting time, O son!" said Kennedy the King. "Better days await thee, Brian, my brother," she said; "Mahon the King So the boy chieftain came to be King of Ireland, and the story of his come in right good time with thy trusty dragon-ships, young King," said "Break down great London Bridge, young hero?" cried the amazed king. "True, ''t is a good omen, King," said old Rane the helmsman, following "My life upon the safe delivery of thy scroll, great Prince," said young "Though young in years, O King," said the Suabian, "thou art old in rough handling of the young prince, and the lad''s boy-followers, still at Up to this day the young king had taken but little interest in the affairs id = 5420 author = Brown, John title = Rab and His Friends date = keywords = Ailie; Bob; James; John; Rab summary = Does any curious and finely-ignorant woman wish to know how Bob''s eye at Bob took the dead dog up, and said, "John, we''ll bury him black-a-vised little man, his hand at his gray horse''s head, looking Six years have passed,--a long time for a boy and a dog: Bob Ainslie is tail, and looking up, with his head a little to the one side. large gate open, and in walked Rab, with that great and easy saunter of "Ailie," said James, "this is Maister John, "May Rab and me bide?" said James. the surgeon told her; arranged herself, gave a rapid look at James, shut table, looks for James; then, turning to the surgeon and the students, said, "James!" He came close to her, and, lifting up her calm, clear, beautiful eyes, she gave him a long look, turned to me kindly but shortly, looked for Rab but could not see him, then turned to her id = 14492 author = Burton, Margaret E. (Margaret Ernestine) title = Notable Women of Modern China date = keywords = Ahok; America; China; Dr.; Eng; God; King; Kiukiang; Miss; Mrs.; Stone; chinese; christian summary = the work in China, that a Chinese girl would come to this country and be doing the regular class work, and making her home with her friend Mrs. Keen. Christian in the hospital, went home with the hope of coming back to study doctors in the city here, so their coming to us helps our work a good hospital work; the nurses and students gave the young physician Mrs. Ahok soon began again the work among the upper class women which had visiting Chinese homes, especially after New Year when people are is given by an article in _Woman''s Work in the Far East_, written by Dr. Stone at about this time: doubled the hospital work, and Miss Hughes wrote that Dr. Stone was in "the Dr. Stone''s own mother has done such work for years, morning worked there for many years; another city was that in which the Stone''s old id = 1085 author = Carlyle, Thomas title = Life of John Sterling date = keywords = Anthony; CHAPTER; Charles; Church; Clifton; Coleridge; Edward; England; English; Esq; Falmouth; Father; God; Hare; John; Knightsbridge; London; Mother; Mr.; Mrs.; Rome; St.; Sterling; Susan; Times; Torrijos; Town; day; good; great; letter; life; little; man; world; year summary = John Sterling''s character and writings, which had little Edward Sterling his Father, a man who subsequently came to considerable change introduced itself into Edward Sterling''s way of life. operations, it need not be said, John Sterling was his foremost man; strange new way of life: by all means let us go and try!--Arrangements It is evident, Sterling''s thoughts had already, since the old days of The hope of perhaps, one day, knowing Sterling, was welcome books got planted in their new places, friends could find Sterling, as heaviest-laden years can poor Sterling be said to have completely lived. seen,--"like Fenelon," Sterling said: his very face, with its kind true If Sterling has done little in Literature, we may ask, What other man other, thinking of old Edward Sterling now left alone in the world; and John Sterling and his Life in this world were--such as has been already id = 17976 author = Carnegie, Andrew title = Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie date = keywords = America; Andrew; Blaine; Britain; Carnegie; Company; Dunfermline; Footnote; Gladstone; John; London; Lord; Morley; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Pacific; Pennsylvania; Pittsburgh; President; Railroad; Scotland; Scott; States; Thomson; Union; United; Washington; William; York; man summary = It was said of a contemporary who passed away a few months before Mr. Carnegie that "he never could have borne the burden of old age." upon me, to shake hands with "the grandson of Thomas Morrison." Mr. Farmer, president of the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, [Footnote 4: _An American Four-in-Hand in Great Britain._ New York, The great event of the day in Pittsburgh at that time was the arrival the great War Secretary ("Lincoln''s right-hand man") were all well dollars your company will work day and night and I will get my For some time the Pittsburgh friends who came to New York were our "Come into my room and talk it over," said the great sleeping-car man. The men said they were from the works at Pittsburgh and Many friends, great and good men and women, Mrs. Carnegie and I are _Memorial Addresses on the Life and Work of Andrew Carnegie._ New id = 26131 author = Carnegie, Andrew title = James Watt date = keywords = Birmingham; Black; Boulton; Britain; Dr.; Glasgow; London; Mr.; Newcomen; Priestley; Professor; Roebuck; Scotland; Small; Soho; Watt; day; engine; man; steam; work summary = Thomas Watt''s son, the father of the great inventor, followed in his of working engines, passed through Watt''s own hands, and for most of his experimental work; nursery from which came the steam engine of Watt, the When Watt gave to the steam-engine five times its efficiency by the new engine were partly supplied from Watt''s own works in Glasgow and Boulton, like most busy men, had time, and an open mind, for new ideas. engine was so satisfactory as to set both Boulton and Watt to thinking At this time, Watt''s most intimate friend of youthful years in We think of Watt and the steam engine appears. indispensable steam engine of Watt had to furnish the motive power. world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine Mr. Watt was the great _improver_ of the steam engine; but, in Thus during the five years from 1761-66 Watt had worked out all id = 12491 author = Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) title = Twelve Types date = keywords = Brontë; Byron; Carlyle; Charles; God; Morris; Savonarola; Scott; Stevenson; great; life; man; thing summary = not occur to a man''s mind; it may be said, with almost equal truth, that moral truth as the old story, existing in many forms, of Beauty and the the eternal and essential truth that until we love a thing in all its A man like Morris draws attention to thing, like love and hate and the fear of death. Asceticism is a thing which in its very nature, we tend in these days to There are two main moral necessities for the work of a great man: the human spirituality in which Carlyle believed that a man should be owned who asserts that man, as a fact of natural history, is a creature with The religion of Christ has, like many true things, been disproved an Walter Scott is a great, and, therefore, mysterious man. his soul may be in rags, every man of Scott can speak like a king. id = 44064 author = Cibber, Colley title = An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement date = keywords = Betterton; Booth; Charles; Cibber; Colley; Company; Drury; English; Footnote; Fortune; House; John; King; Lane; Life; London; Lord; Love; Master; Merit; Mr.; Mrs.; Nature; Oldfield; People; Publick; Queen; Sir; Theatre; Voice; Wilks; William; Wit; actor; author; character; day; man; person; play; stage; year summary = particulars regarding the theatres and plays, as well as the actors, Reformation, in Queen _Elizabeth''s_ time, Plays were frequently acted by That if any person shall in any Stage-play, Enterlude, Shew, to publish the Lives of the late Mrs. _Oldfield_, Mr. _Wilks_, and Mr. _Booth_, in less time after their Deaths than one could suppose it cost equal or superior Characters, tho'' inferior Actors play''d them; he Spectators) the Reputation of our Company began to get ground; Mrs. _Oldfield_ and Mr. _Wilks_, by their frequently playing against one make between them is, That to write or act like the Authors or Actors of Cibber said to have refused to let him play a certain character, ii. [Footnote 239: In the Dedication to this play Cibber says that "Mr. _Southern_''s Good-nature (whose own Works best recommend his Judgment) [Footnote 328: The first play acted by the United Company was "Hamlet." id = 44065 author = Cibber, Colley title = An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 2 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement date = keywords = Betterton; Booth; Chamberlain; Charles; Cibber; Collier; Company; Court; Dogget; Drury; Duke; Footnote; Gentleman; John; King; Lane; Life; Lord; Merit; Mr.; Mrs.; Patent; Pope; Power; Richard; Sir; Stage; Steele; Theatre; Wilks; William; actor; author; day; man; play; share; time; year summary = it acted: The Queen had the Goodness to refer the Merit of his Play to good Actors, great Writers, and true Judges were, like those of wise and Actors chosen for this Charge were _Wilks_, _Dogget_, Mrs. _Oldfield_, new License for acting Plays, _&c._ for himself, _Wilks_, _Dogget_, and either _Wilks_, _Booth_, or _Cibber_: And the second is, Whether by Sir A Play presented at Court, or acted on a publick Stage, seem to their this play Cibber made his last appearance on the stage, on 26th theatre in Lincoln''s-inn-fields, Booth, Wilks, and Cibber, the managers About the year 1738, Mrs. Porter returned to the stage, and acted many Patent granted to Cibber, Wilks, and Booth after Steele''s death, Cibber said to have refused to let him play a certain character, ii. [Footnote 32: A comedy by Mountfort the actor, originally played at the [Footnote 179: Wilks played Constant; Booth, Heartfree; and Cibber, Sir id = 10024 author = Cross, F. J. (Frederick J.) title = Beneath the Banner: Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds date = keywords = Bible; Colin; England; God; Gordon; Havelock; John; London; Lord; Miss; Moffat; Mr.; STORY; Shaftesbury; Sir; Smith; Wesley; great; life; man summary = porters to carry the goods of the expedition; but when the time came "Now, men," Sir Colin had said before the engagement, "you are going legs came a long way through the trousers, and his head went a good had set his heart upon a sailor''s life, he got him a place on a or three years'' time I may with God''s administration make a good was much good work to be done in looking after his men''s comfort and years so ruled my life that when death came I might face it without At his father''s death John Howard came into possession of a good drink at the present time; but in Livesey''s early days people suffered when it looked as if the missionary''s life had reached its last day, But the little factory boy had done such a great work that no place she loved the work, and experienced great happiness in her life, id = 26129 author = Dallmann, William title = John Hus: A brief story of the life of a martyr date = keywords = Church; Council; Emperor; Hus; Pope; Wiclif summary = Wiclif''s Influence on Hus. When Anne, the daughter of Emperor Charles IV, and sister of King Wenzel of Wiclif spread by Hus. These teachings, he said, made the clergy and the plain people favor the word of Christ." Hus continued to preach John XXIII twice confirmed the sentence of Pope Alexander V; Hus was Pope John XXIII turned the case of Hus over to Cardinal Annibaldi, who Sigismund burnt Hus as a Wiclifite, the next year the Council called the When the Council deposed John XXIII, Hus wrote: "Courage, friends! On June 3, Pope John XXIII was a prisoner in the same prison with Hus! Hus said the Church did not need an earthly head, a pope; Christ, the Doomed by the Church, Hus was now made over to the Emperor, with the Like Luther later, Hus placed his conscience above the mighty Emperor, id = 40508 author = Everett-Green, Evelyn title = True Stories of Girl Heroines date = keywords = Agnes; Agostina; Captain; Charles; Elizabeth; England; God; Grizel; Helen; James; Jane; Jessy; Juana; King; Lillyard; Margaret; Mary; Mr.; Queen; Theresa; man summary = shoulders of the girl, and looked into her face with a long wistful night, she thought upon these things, and cried in her heart, "How long, "Thou art a brave girl; thou hast a great heart and a ready wit," said Why, when I was a little girl I knew an old woman who lived Tolbooth: the girl''s face was tense with emotion, and the man''s eyes "Thou wilt not run into danger, my child?" said the mother, who had come "A matter of eight days each way," answered the man; and, after a few "Good friend," she said, "I do not desire to kill thee, so come no The colour was coming and going in Eva''s face; the look of purpose in "There are many things to think of, little one," she said; "and thou "If the man''s story be true, who came and asked speech of father last id = 23295 author = Farningham, Marianne title = Grace Darling, Heroine of the Farne Islands date = keywords = Alnwick; Cuthbert; Darling; Duchess; Dudley; England; Farne; Forfarshire; George; God; Grace; Island; Longstone; Lord; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Northumberland; Northumbria; St.; William; come; good; man summary = But the best time for Grace was when the twin-brothers came home for a "I do not know how to thank you enough for your great kindness, Mr. Darling," said Miss Dudley. "Do," said Grace, "I shall be glad to hear anything about your life." so endeared was the lighthouse-home to Grace Darling, and so dear was "You will have to put Grace into the boat yourself, Mr. Darling," said "You have come from play to work, Grace," they said, "for we shall In Grace Darling''s time, as we have said, there were merry days in the It has already been said that Grace Darling, in her lonely life upon "It will be very good to see him," said Grace, who loved her brother, Grace Darling''s love of home besides Grace Darling: some, whose beauty has been so great, that men ye shall know them." And Grace Darling''s life showed only good fruits. id = 12193 author = Foss, James Henry title = The Gentleman from Everywhere date = keywords = B----; Boston; CHAPTER; Florida; General; God; Henry; New; River; State; Sunday; brother; day; earth; good; great; home; land; life; like; long; man; night; old; school; time; town; tree; year summary = of leaves at the great white clouds sailing over like ships upon At the opening of the school, this long and lank fifteen year old on earth--father, mother, sister, brothers, came and went almost from home nearly all the time; but my father, mother, brother, and secure more lands and to cut avenues, we went home, where we formed a said, like the fabled raccoon in the tree, "Don''t shoot, I''ll come none of what the world calls the great prizes of life, but he had what who had been in spirit life a little over one year came fully These people long to return to their old homes in New The great masses of the people had for a long time watched with money is flowing in like water to furnish homes for us all away from great family, the rich and the poor clasped hands like brothers, and id = 57382 author = Franking, Mae M. title = My Chinese Marriage date = keywords = Chan; China; King; Liang; Madame; Margaret; Mother; Shanghai; american; chinese; husband; western summary = I saw Chan-King Liang for the first time on a certain Monday morning in that Chan-King told us about his father, typical Chinese product of his remembered that, fine as Chan-King was, he belonged to the Chinese race. Chan-King looked at him a long time, a quizzical, happy On the way home Chan-King said, "Will this be difficult for you, would see Chan-King''s eyes turned upon me with the look I best loved to Chan-King expressed our views thus: "The Chinese idea is that the family "When I told them of you," said Chan-King, "my mother was visibly related, Chan-King''s mother had been looking forward for years to the Chan-King, his mother and I went to Chinese cafés together and Madame When her visit was ended, our mother said to Chan-King, "This is a grown, we must have them all marry Chinese." Chan-King looked at me long id = 26146 author = Frohman, Daniel title = Charles Frohman: Manager and Man date = keywords = Adams; Barrie; Barrymore; Belasco; Charles; Dillingham; Drew; Empire; England; Frohman; Gillette; Gustave; Henry; John; London; Maude; Miss; Mrs.; New; October; Peter; September; Square; Street; Theater; William; York; american; english; play summary = From that hour life had a new meaning for Charles Frohman. Charles walked to the window and said, with great pride, "We play here When Charles Frohman went to the Madison Square Theater in 1881 the Charles Frohman''s ambition for a New York theater obsessed him. Charles Frohman now had a play, a theater, and a cast. that Charles Frohman was about to send out an English play called organized the Charles Frohman Comedy Company to fill in the time at Then came the night when Belasco read the play to Frohman, who walked up Williams, for many years business manager for Charles Frohman, Up to this time Frohman had controlled only one theater in New York--the in that play were entirely through the work of Charles Frohman. _CHARLES FROHMAN''S OFFICE IN THE EMPIRE THEATER_] _CHARLES FROHMAN''S OFFICE IN THE EMPIRE THEATER_] The man I selected to produce your play is Charles Frohman. id = 13942 author = Fuller, Osgood E. (Osgood Eaton) title = Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs date = keywords = America; CHAPTER; England; English; Fayette; France; Franklin; Girard; God; Henry; Hill; Jackson; Joan; John; London; Lord; Marshall; Master; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Orleans; Paris; Poor; Richard; Sir; States; Thou; Thy; Toby; Washington; William; Wilson; christian; day; french; good; great; life; like; little; man; time; woman; work summary = The brave man or the brave woman is one who looks life in the eye, and "Why, I have thought a great many times I would come," said the visitor, young man that arose in my early day, and until I was forty years of certainly has done some good things in his life-time, said to me: "You children who died a long life-time ago; of the sisters--Sarah Hutchinson It is not in human nature for a man who has been hard at work all day to If you want to do good in the world, the little word "Try" comes in ninety-eight years of the life of a woman whose deeds were great in the him, "that he could not be said to be a good man, but he had a great rights of man, looking beyond the mobs of kings and lords to the great id = 5733 author = Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von title = Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life date = keywords = BOOK; Behrisch; Count; English; Frankfort; Gellert; God; Goethe; Gretchen; Leipzig; Oeser; Strasburg; Von; art; come; day; father; footnote; form; french; friend; german; good; great; hand; house; life; like; little; long; old; place; thing; time; way; work; year; young summary = reading him he felt, he said, like a blind man who suddenly receives his long time to come, but a great deal of small gear of the same ware had every thing was quiet in the house, I whiled away the time with my pots At that time the general interchange of personal good wishes made the small, thin man of lively good nature, that in his earlier years he had But for this the good old man cared but little, days he let me sit as long as I could read, many times alone; after a disturb them; but ''there is a time for all things,''--an excellent great rapidly, and it needs not a man''s life-time to bring such things to feeling of revering a great man; so did a new friend, whom I gained at Time is infinitely long; and each day is a vessel into which a great id = 33273 author = Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) title = Lives of Celebrated Women date = keywords = Adams; Barbauld; Duke; Elizabeth; England; Europe; France; Genlis; God; Isabella; Josephine; Louis; Lucretia; Madame; Mademoiselle; Margaret; Mary; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Napoleon; Necker; Orleans; Paris; Roland; St.; Stael; Washington; english; french summary = long after, Lucretia came running to her mother in great agitation, old-fashioned country house near New York, on the banks of Long Island A few of Mrs. Adams''s letters, written at an early period of her life, The first ten years of Mrs. Adams''s married life were passed in a "The great distance between us makes the time appear very long to me. occasioned, Mrs. Adams writes to her husband as follows: "I suppose When the king came to me, Lord Onslaw said, ''Mrs. Adams;'' upon which I drew off my right hand glove, and his majesty wig, took her hands in his, held them a long time, and entered into Necker remained a short time in France, and then returned to Coppet, husband passed the day, and frequently great part of the night, in his delighted to pass her time: she had a love of the country, of nature, id = 39333 author = Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) title = Curiosities of Human Nature date = keywords = Allen; Charles; Colburn; England; Europe; France; God; Hunter; Indians; John; Jones; Latin; London; Mr.; New; Paris; Robin; Scotland; Sir; Smith; York; Zerah; french; great; illustration; time; year summary = six years old, and had the manners common to children of his age. father to it, offered him fifty pounds a year for his own personal use. me the power." At a subsequent time, however, while at the house of Mr. Francis Bailey, in London, upon some remark being made, the boy said October 5th, 1740, aged nineteen years, eight months, and sixteen days. years and three days old, but, at that tender age, a prodigy of wit and At six years old, this singular child commenced, with his father, and appear, for a short time, in cash, until the day of payment came, when a Having in consequence returned home, he still took great delight in the Various proceedings took place, and for several years, the present About the year 1822, there appeared at New York a young man, of small due time to this country, and about the year 1692, twenty persons were id = 52400 author = Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) title = Famous Men of Ancient Times date = keywords = Alexander; Aristotle; Asia; Athenians; Athens; Belisarius; Cicero; Confucius; Constantinople; Cæsar; God; Greece; Homer; Italy; Justinian; Mohammed; Philip; Plato; Rome; Seneca; Socrates; great; illustration; roman summary = excellent life of the great Roman general from which we have drawn the course of study, his father removed to Rome, and placed him in a public Soon after Cicero''s return to Rome, he, being about thirty years of republic, and this year, there being great scarcity at Rome, the people This year, Cicero''s father died in a good old age, and he gave his formed, and Cicero yielded, for a time, to their power. times, spared neither life nor fortunes--the greatest friend in the of public moneys in Spain; and in the year 68, having returned to Rome, powerful sovereigns and men of great minds, were yet inferior, in what far as 1903 years before the time of Alexander the Great; that is, 2234 In the following year, however, the death of Alexander restored him great philosopher, whose doctrines he followed, and whose death and id = 27362 author = Gordon, J. M. (Joseph Maria) title = The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon date = keywords = Adelaide; Africa; Australia; Carlos; Colonel; Commandant; Commonwealth; Don; General; Gordon; Government; Governor; Kingston; London; Lord; Major; Melbourne; Mr.; New; Royal; Sir; South; Spain; Sydney; Victoria; Wales; War summary = examination took place late in the year, and as my people generally went by several officers, might arrive at any time in London, and instructed Majesty''s ships at Adelaide, South Australia, and the commander asked me some thirty-five years of mounted police work in South Australia. during which time the efficiency of the police force of South Australia On the day following the news of my appointment I called at Government 1896--Re-appointed Commandant, under new Defence Act. 1898--Inspector, Warlike Stores, and Military Adviser for Australian " --Special Service Officer, South African War. 1900--Colonel, Imperial Land Forces. day, no, nor even in a year, so that for months I had little time for At the time of the Imperial officers'' arrival in Melbourne a Charity ball General Hutton, who had by this time been appointed Commandant of New of the New South Wales military forces to be in Sydney at the time of the id = 25977 author = Guiccioli, Teresa, contessa di title = My Recollections of Lord Byron date = keywords = Byron; CHAPTER; Cambridge; Chaworth; Childe; Count; Dallas; Don; England; English; Footnote; France; G----; Galt; Gamba; Genoa; God; Greece; Harold; Harrow; Hobhouse; Italy; Juan; Kennedy; Lady; London; Lord; Milbank; Miss; Missolonghi; Moore; Mr.; Murray; Newstead; Pisa; Ravenna; Rogers; Scott; Shakspeare; Shelley; Taine; Venice; great; life; love; man summary = Albrizzi at Venice, Beyle (Stendhal) at Milan, Lady Blessington and Mrs. Shelley in Italy, have drawn of Lord Byron there is much truth, and that, in speaking of so great a man as Lord Byron, there is no fear Those who knew and loved Lord Byron even more as a man than a genius "One day," says Mr. Stendhall, who knew Lord Byron at Milan, in 1817, and saw a great deal Galt with respect to Lord Byron, we must allow that the great poet''s Long''s death was the cause of great grief to Lord Byron. Lord Byron had a passionate nature, a feeling heart, a powerful "An anchorite," says Moore, "who knew Lord Byron about this time, could for the poet to be great the man must suffer, Lord Byron, it must be for the poet to be great the man must suffer, Lord Byron, it must be id = 33992 author = Hastings, Z. S. (Zachariah Simpson) title = Autobiography of Z. S. Hastings date = keywords = County; God; Hastings; Indiana; Kansas summary = When the day came for me to be named, mother said, said father, one day to mother, "this out not to be, we are one in said boys, that the training of a child should begin a hundred years that morning, mother said to father, "Have you looked to see if the In due time, (1830) father and mother with their two little boys, At the time of father''s arrival, Indiana was only 14 years old and We liked Clarksburg because it was a good place for schools, Sunday said, "Father is better." The doctor asked me several questions family, Rufus Wiley, was a little over five years old. of my school boys, a young man, came to me and said he wanted me to preaching in the school house about this time, possibly a little 15 years I have preached but little. id = 20810 author = Hicklin, John title = The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales" date = keywords = Ale; Butler; Eleanor; Ladies; Lady; Llangollen; Miss; Mr.; Newydd; Oak; Plas; Ponsonby; Wales summary = residence, Plas Newydd, at Llangollen, for so many years the home of Lady "Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby were young ladies of beauty neighbourhood of Llangollen Vale, and having heard much of Lady E. selected by the Executors of the Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby to the Residence of the late LADY ELEANOR BUTLER AND MISS PONSONBY. "Ladies of Llangollen," an intimate friendship existed. present from His Majesty to Lady Butler and Miss Ponsonby; with many pass, at Llangollen, to receive in due form, from the dear old Butler and Miss Ponsonby, the curiosities of Llangollen mentioned by "Before I left Llangollen I recollected the two celebrated ladies who cottage, where the late Lady Eleanor Butler and the Honourable Miss remains in the same condition as in the days of Lady Eleanor and Miss LADY ELEANOR BUTLER AND MISS PONSONBY, The Seat of the late Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Ponsonby. id = 43538 author = Holland, Rupert Sargent title = Historic Girlhoods, Part One date = keywords = Captain; Catherine; Duke; England; Fanny; France; Indians; Jane; Joan; King; Lady; Mary; Queen; girl summary = One summer afternoon Catherine, who was a small girl with dark hair and and Catherine was barely twelve years old when her father and mother legendary, but we do know that this girl whom history has called St. Catherine of Siena grew to be a heroic woman, an angel of mercy to the It was some time later that Joan went into the house and joined her happy, entered the little garden back of her father''s house and sat have come," said Joan, "to a royal city to tell Robert of Baudricourt King Henry bent, and raising the girl''s small hand, touched it to his The news that the great White Captain was coming to the village caused The Indian girl seemed sorry the Captain was leaving when he said "Come with me," whispered a small boy to a little girl who was the children''s mothers treated her just like any other little girl. id = 28272 author = Howie, John title = Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies date = keywords = Andrews; Argyle; August; Ayr; Blair; Bothwel; Cargil; Charles; Christ; David; Dickson; Durham; Edinburgh; England; France; Galloway; George; Glasgow; God; Guthrie; Hamilton; Henderson; Hog; Ireland; James; Jesus; John; July; June; King; Knox; Life; London; Lord; Master; Melvil; Mr.; Renwick; Robert; Sabbath; Scotland; Scots; Sir; Spirit; St.; Stirling; Welch; William; Wishart; time summary = from this foreign army.--About this time lord James went over to France, long sigh, said, "Now, Sir, the time you have long called to God for, word of God, right reason, and good laws, against which he had said was not given out, and therefore desired him to mourn for offending God. And farther said, What, my lord, if Christ had given out the sentence of The minister said, "My lord, if you had the man Christ in your arms, God''s presence; and the minister said, What, my lord, if that be came home, he said to his mother-in-law, The minister hath preached very he said, "My honourable Master and lovely Lord, my great royal King hath king in all things in the Lord." I told you that, said Glasgow, I knew faith, I bless God (said he) that in 15 years time I have never given id = 12933 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great date = keywords = America; Carlyle; Dickens; Doctor; East; Edison; England; George; Gladstone; God; Goldsmith; Hawkins; Hugo; Ireland; London; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Roycroft; Ruskin; Saint; Shakespeare; Shop; Street; Swift; Turner; Victor; Whitman; good; great; little; man; time summary = man find the inspiration for carrying forward his great work? stage when the man says, "I always believed it." And so the good old public dining-room, and not a day passes but men and women of note sit at "Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great." Many men have written good books and never tasted fame; but few, like One of America''s great men, in a speech delivered not long ago, said, womanly woman: lives because she ministered to the needs of a great man. influential friends; who had few books and little time to read; who knew "I wish you''d come oftener--I see you so seldom, lad," said the old man, Then after a great, long time Victor Hugo came and lived in the house. look out of the window, he should live in Lant Street, said a great little really good work done than live long and do nothing to speak of. id = 13778 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women date = keywords = Austen; Barrett; Bronte; Charles; Elizabeth; France; God; Godwin; Guyon; Harriet; Jane; Josephine; Kenyon; Lamb; London; Madame; Mary; Miss; Mr.; Napoleon; Paris; Pigeon; Shelley; Stael; White; man summary = My Father has been my teacher--and I do not at all envy the College Man. For the last twenty years I have been working in the Roycroft Shops. Read the lives of great men and you will come to the conclusion that it is white houses--the homes of good men and gentle women, and cherub children; A man came down the stairs three steps at a time, and took both of White When twelve years of age the good people with whom she lived said she must Constant came as near winning the love of Madame De Stael as any man ever their holds women and children, who never came back, and men who, like the When Jane was ten years old there came to live at the Rectory a daughter Josephine was too good and great for the wife of such a man. id = 18936 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers date = keywords = Alfred; America; Arnold; Benedict; Bishop; Christian; Church; Confucius; Eddy; Egypt; England; Erasmus; Froebel; God; Health; Hypatia; Moses; Mrs.; Negro; New; Plato; Pythagoras; Rome; Science; Sixth; Socrates; Thought; good; great; man summary = All great men love liberty, and no man lives in Moses was a man born to rule--he was a leader of men--and here at of any man, living or dead, is a very great compliment. we behold a great man struggling to benefit humanity by making them man in history who fought for human rights and sought to make men free, in a world of living, striving and dying men and women requires great Confucius is the first man in point of time to proclaim the divinity of service, the brotherhood of man, and the truth that in useful work there order to impress men like these, the man must have taught a very exalted The unit of man''s life is the day, not the month or year, much many great things, but he never said this: "I would have every man poor preparatory school for boys lived his life and did his work. id = 23458 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers date = keywords = Balzac; Combe; Dante; England; Father; God; HOLTHOFF; Hamilton; Hanska; Ireland; John; Josiah; LASSALLE; Lady; Louis; Madame; Mary; Mill; Mr.; Mrs.; Nelson; O''Shea; Parnell; Petrarch; Robert; Rossetti; Sir; Taylor; William; helene; man summary = for three love-letters a week for five years will educate any man. Thus do all things work together for good, whether you love the Lord or much as whispered--all good men and women have at some time loved Dante, at times, had a way of mourning over the fact that his father and woman married to a man old enough to be her father is not likely to be when we are in love we love God. At other times we only fear Him. I am told that there be young men and maidens fair who walk on air and A great, noble and unswerving love between a man and a woman, mentally hands to help a man whose sole offense was that he loved a woman with a eternal dream of a love where the man and woman shall live together as The years passed, and Rossetti again began to write--for God is good. id = 23595 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen date = keywords = America; Anselm; Armour; Astor; Carnegie; Chicago; Cooper; England; George; Girard; Hill; James; Jews; John; London; Mr.; New; Oliver; Owen; Paul; Peabody; Pennsylvania; Peter; Robert; Rogers; Saint; Stewart; York; man summary = When a man who worked a hundred orphans fourteen hours a day, boys and New Lanark was making money because it was producing goods the world Oliver offered the man eighteen dollars for the mansion, cash down. Said James Oliver, "Man''s first business was to till the soil; He loaded the ship up again, and in a year the man came back with a one thing--your autograph!" said the man who was busy conquering a order to help along a virtuous and hard-working young man, the son of Peter Cooper was born in New York City in the year Seventeen Hundred For forty years Peter Cooper served the City of New York and the State, of George Peabody, more than any other man of his time, the two great On the ship that carried Stewart back to New York was a young man who id = 412 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = John Jacob Astor date = keywords = Astor; Bowne; Jacob; John; New; York summary = John Jacob Astor was born of a Dutch family that had migrated down to Intuitively John Jacob Astor felt that the "New World" was the place John Jacob played the flute and the German friend told stories of fur Young Astor had been with Bowne only a year. So after a three years'' apprenticeship, Astor knew all that Bowne did In Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-six, John Jacob Astor began business on brought young Astor into "the best Dutch New York society," a Until the year Eighteen Hundred, Astor lived over his store in Water John Jacob Astor was too far away John Jacob Astor was exceptional in his combined love of money and love Astor, the son of John Jacob, was brought up in the John Jacob Astor, besides having the first store for the sale of John Jacob Astor once told Washington Irving that it was id = 6449 author = Hubbard, Elbert title = Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers date = keywords = America; Boston; Bradlaugh; Bright; Calvin; Charles; Church; Cobden; Cromwell; England; France; Garibaldi; George; God; Henry; House; Hutchinson; John; Knox; London; Mazzini; Mrs.; New; Oliver; Oxford; Paine; Parker; State; Theodore; Wesley; man summary = Wesley went one day to hold evening prayers at a village church near years have passed since men heard his voice, looked on his strong, Henry George was that rare, peculiar and strange thing--an honest man. "What Cheer House" was all right for a man getting good wages, but much faith in God. After his thirty-sixth year Henry George slipped by natural process and insist that men shall have the right to work out their lives in The Reverend Theodore Parker once said: "Every living man in America United States, offered Paine passage to America on board the man-ofwar "Maryland," in order that he might be safe from capture by the Paine thought Franklin quite the greatest man of his time, an opinion time is coming when a State Church will be unknown in England, and The man who said, "In a world where death is, there is no time id = 35331 author = Huntington, Faye title = Stories of Great Men date = keywords = Alexander; CHAPTER; England; God; Judson; New; Rome; great; illustration; man; time; year summary = years old he had one of the greatest men in the world for his teacher. From that time on, for years, his story might be told in one word, War. Battle after battle was fought and won; cities were destroyed; in Before he was thirty-three years old this wonderful, sad life was When he was thirty-eight years old his life began to grow brighter. As the years went by, and the boy became a man and was much over thirty years old, and lived there for the rest of his life; years old, and though he lived to be a great naval commander and won do not already know about this great man; the story of his life and his year from the time he entered the school at Cornwall he was called home. His son Josiah, three years old at the time of his father''s death, was id = 590 author = Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) title = Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a Memorial date = keywords = Baildon; Balfour; Ballantrae; Braemar; Edinburgh; God; Henley; John; Lord; Louis; Master; Robert; Samoa; Scott; Stevenson; Thoreau; Treasure; chapter; life; man; work summary = On some little points of fact, however, Stevenson was wrong; and I wrote characteristic in every way, and showing fully Stevenson''s fine built, and of the great feast Mr Stevenson gave at the close of the work, In a word, you always, in view of true dramatic effect, see Stevenson is why Mr Stevenson and Mr Henley--young men of great talent, about the time of Stevenson''s death; and the whole is so good and clear creation of character, Stevenson tells his story with more art and with a Now, it is in its own way surely a very remarkable thing that Stevenson, Stevenson''s life-long devotion to his art anyway was on the point of that lies like an amalgam, behind all Stevenson''s work. {10} Stevenson''s work in letters does not now take me much, and I Here Stevenson, though original in his vein and way, but follows a great id = 19434 author = Jeans, J. Stephen (James Stephen) title = Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities date = keywords = Anderson; Baird; Bell; Buchanan; Burns; Church; Dalglish; Dr.; Edinburgh; Glasgow; House; James; John; London; Lord; Mr.; Napier; Professor; Royal; Scotland; Sheriff; Sir; Thomson; University; William; Young; page summary = on the present position of Church affairs in Scotland, and the causes certain members of the General Assembly to establish the Free Church by Mr. George Anderson, the junior member for the city of Glasgow, was born and well-being of Glasgow, Sir James has taken an active and useful receiving what little schooling his parents were able to afford, Mr. Young commenced to assist his father--who had by this time established time it became evident that the petroleum was almost worked out, and Mr. Young directed his attention to finding an artificial substitute for the year the second largest amount of any church in Scotland towards the Burns, and the City of Glasgow Company, had at this time formed in Glasgow was established two or three years after Mr. Watson commenced immediately after he was licensed as a minister of the gospel, Dr. Anderson received a call to John Street U.P. Church, Glasgow--his first id = 542 author = Johnson, Clarence Edgar title = The Life of Me: An Autobiography date = keywords = Albert; Anita; County; Dennis; Earl; Frank; Hamlin; Joel; Johnson; Lamesa; Mama; Old; Papa; Royston; Scotch; Texas; time summary = memory of a little boy, and that''s the way it was this time, just little three-year-old kid would give me the answer, "Mama does." Then one day Joel got a foot hurt and couldn''t run the planter. Papa paid Mr. Whatley for his cow, and went home a little poorer Hamlin, Papa got a job helping clear the right-of-way. Old Ribbon was a good gentle horse for Mama and us kids, but Papa Old Scotch, but Papa lost no time in bringing him home. ago, when I was just a little kid nine years old, Papa had gone The nice man working on our car must have been a little boy remembers a thing like this when he is 13 years old and he wanted I well remember one time I got on the little machine and went boy had an old car like that, and one day he was driving down the id = 2846 author = Josephus, Flavius title = The Life of Flavius Josephus date = keywords = Galileans; Galilee; Jerusalem; John; Jonathan; Romans; Tiberias summary = to the Romans], and to gather a great number of forces, in order to Tiberius, and desired that the principal men of the city would come to Jerusalem, I took care to have arms provided, and the cities fortified. But when John was come to the city of Tiberias, he persuaded the men for what he had said, he took some of the armed men, and made haste pleased: and upon the multitude''s ordering me to speak, the armed men and said that those great men that belonged to the king ought not to when they came to Gabara, John met them with three thousand armed men; of armed men, who were come out of Galilee to assist me: many others of given orders to the armed men, that when I came they should let nobody carry him into a village; and, commanding my armed men to come down, I id = 23273 author = Kingston, William Henry Giles title = John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea date = keywords = Alethea; Brinsmead; Burdale; Captain; Deane; Elizabeth; England; Harwood; Jack; James; Jasper; John; King; London; Master; Nottingham; Pearson; Sam; Sir; english; french summary = "I am called Jack Deane, sir," answered the young man, "at your service. own way," said Mr Harwood; "but if your name is Jack Deane, I conclude On reaching the door of Mr Deane''s house, Jack held the young lady''s were not very long, took him a considerable time--Jack was left to the "Remember," said Alethea, as Jack''s horse was brought round to the front Master Pearson?" said Jack, examining his countenance more "I was bred in Yorkshire, Master Jack Deane," answered Pearson with a "I do not like the look of things," said Brinsmead to Jack. "You mean Master Pearson, I suppose," answered Jack. formality soon disappeared, and Jack Deane, as has been said, passed a "You seem to know every thing, Master Pearson!" exclaimed Jack, somewhat of Master Pearson, much to Jack''s satisfaction, Long Sam took his Pearson all this time had never appeared, though Elizabeth told Jack id = 19078 author = Lang, Mrs. title = The Red Book of Heroes date = keywords = Ambrose; Angélique; Charles; Duarte; England; Enrique; Fernando; Florence; Gordon; Hannibal; Havelock; Henry; Howard; John; Khartoum; Miss; Montrose; Nightingale; Palissy; Romans; Rome; Thomas; carthage; english; illustration summary = All day long the Lady-in-Chief went about, visiting the hospitals and Gauls, in the valley of the Po. This was how in fifteen days Hannibal made the passage of the Little St. Bernard five months after he had set out from Carthagena. for the death of one old man,'' he said, when he heard that soldiers had the young man was firm, and at length the father took leave of both his old, he came one day to the king, telling him that he and his three next the men work, that in three days the little army, consisting, with Many years hence, when the children of to-day are growing old men and know what Gordon said to him--most likely very little, but he offered said Gordon, equal to an army of five thousand men, fell into the hands carried the day, ''because he gave his enemies no time to think'' or to id = 34711 author = Langdon, Ellen title = The Life of Roger Langdon, Told by himself. With additions by his daughter Ellen. date = keywords = Brown; Cornwall; Jersey; Jim; Langdon; Miss; Mr.; Nanny; Sunday; Venus; father; time summary = Long hours of duty at a little country station, the support and clothing As soon as old Nanny had gone out of the house, I asked my mother if it My sister got well in time, but of course the small-pox left Great Judge say, ''Come, ye blessed of my Father, and inherit the Kingdom it in." And without another word old Nanny went away, and from that day school, saying she would go round and ask the fathers and mothers to church doors when the time was up by Miss Brown''s great gold watch, and know it was the first time I had been called a good boy except by my four shillings and sixpence a week, which was good wages at that time; Jim Drake in my place, because his father was dead, and he was a poor, Many a time after his day''s work was done he would take his id = 46698 author = Lee, Edmund title = Some Noble Sisters date = keywords = Cayla; Countess; Dorothy; Eugénie; God; King; Madame; Mary; Maurice; Meszlenyi; Miss; Paris; Philip; Queen; Sidney; Sir; Wilhelmina; Wordsworth; brother; life; love; sister; time summary = a brother or a sister, animated in the first place by love, has become brother, as her loving heart longed, she willingly shared his fate on Giving an account of her life at eight years old, she says: "All my charming sister, that never brother in the world loved with such "O sweet and dear hope of my remaining days: O sister, whose life she had for so many years shared with her brother. kind-hearted young woman, the loving daughter, the devoted sister, will be time enough for kind offices of love, if heaven''s eternal year loving brother and sister, how that, after a premonition of the Maurice her heart''s great love went out with a yearning desire for his her twenty-second year--the beautiful blossoming time of her life. letters, at the same time, give glimpses of life in the old home at good night, living a stranger, having father, brother, sisters, id = 59510 author = Lewes, Gertrude Hill title = Dr. Southwood Smith: A Retrospect date = keywords = 8vo; Act; Crown; Edinburgh; Edition; Esq; General; Health; JOHN; London; Lord; M.A.; New; Professor; Rev.; Sanitary; Scotland; Sir; Smith; Southwood; Street; University; author; illustration summary = modern physiology for new edition of the ''Philosophy of Health.'' Publication of ''Results of Sanitary Improvement.'' Lectures in Edinburgh has devoted thirty years--a large portion of the active life of man. life at his consulting-rooms in New Broad Street, giving much time to In considering the work of this period of my grandfather''s life, I ought the work of Sanitary Reform up to the time of the passing of the Public early sanitary work was before a public opinion had been formed. Lord Morpeth speaks here of the saving of life in large towns only. Author of ''A Day of my Life at Eton.'' With fifty Illustrations by John Memoirs of the Life and Times of Henry Lord Brougham. Life and Works of George Eliot (Cabinet Edition). New Edition, Enlarged, with Memoir of the Author by JAMES MACDONALD, Author of ''Mr Smith: A Part of his Life,'' &c. id = 15161 author = McCabe, James Dabney title = Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made date = keywords = America; Astor; Beecher; Boston; Brady; CHAPTER; Captain; Cartwright; Chickering; Church; Company; Dr.; England; Europe; Field; Fulton; General; Girard; God; Government; India; John; London; Longworth; Marshall; Morse; Mr.; New; Peabody; Philadelphia; President; South; St.; States; Stewart; Street; United; Washington; West; York; man summary = United States and Great Britain--The road to the "New Land" open--Astor man--Promising opening of a brilliant career--Retirement of Mr. Riggs--Growth of the business--A branch house in London--Mr. Peabody re-election--Closing years of a great career--Personal appearance--Leigh times--Removal of the Powers family to the West--The new paintings--Returns to New York--Success in America--The Government said to have been the first man in New York who kept a regular stock of retail dry goods store in New York, and began business on a humble The energy, industry, patience, and business tact displayed by Mr. Stewart during these first years of his commercial life brought him profits for that time to the poor of the city of New York. time in the country towns of New England, carried on in his family some Some years ago a gentleman having business with the great house of seven years old when he began, and though so young, he worked hard, id = 39298 author = McCarthy, Justin title = Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches date = keywords = Bright; Charles; Church; Commons; Disraeli; Duke; Emanuel; Emperor; England; Europe; France; Froude; George; Gladstone; Henry; House; Italy; John; King; Kingsley; London; Lord; Louis; Lytton; Mill; Mr.; Napoleon; Newman; Prince; Prussia; Queen; Reade; Ruskin; Sand; Thiers; Victor; Wales; english; french summary = To-day Mr. Mill does not appear in political life and Mr. Bright has been an exile, owing to his health, for nearly two years from exist a man in England likely to receive high office, who would be bold and yet he was not personally an untruthful man like English Charles the cares to think of so great, and on the whole so noble a man, living a public man in Europe so generally unpopular as the King of Prussia, One of the great questions likely to arise soon in English political no great public question coming up in England for the past dozen years anything like prominence in English public life, but not actually young time I looked to him with great hope, as a man likely to develop into England to-day all men say aloud what they think on all great subjects id = 19910 author = McSpadden, J. Walker (Joseph Walker) title = Boys'' Book of Famous Soldiers date = keywords = Army; England; Foch; France; French; General; Gordon; Grant; Haig; India; Joffre; Kitchener; Lee; Napoleon; Paris; Roberts; Virginia; War; Washington; West; british; man summary = day when old General Braddock of the British army received his first veteran, a long-time friend of the Washington family, took a particular George Washington was at this time only nineteen years old, but fully white-haired old man now ninety years of age, who had given the young It took young Grant many a long day to accustom himself to the Military Harry Lee, Robert''s father, was not only a soldier, but also a man of that staunch line of Gray--the men who followed Lee. If the souls of great soldiers ever come back to earth, we can imagine Made lieutenant-general, and sent to command Peninsular War. as the Grand Old Man of China, came to the British commander General soldier gave a life-time of service to the crown, and was active in the The story of Haig''s life until the time of the Great War, was the id = 45317 author = Miller, Samuel title = A Memorial of Mrs. Margaret Breckinridge date = keywords = Bible; Christ; Church; Father; God; Jesus; LETTER; Lord; Princeton; Redeemer; Saviour; child; christian; good; mind summary = attempt at preparing a Memoir, his duty to the Church of God forbade it. had done most, under God, to fit her for life''s duties, and its close; house, and on his day, to teach the little children, whom like her Lord, but each appear in Zion before God. It adds tenderness and force to these consoling hopes, that Jesus once DEAR CHILDREN:--On all important subjects there are certain great facts corruptions of the world; and your consequent need of the grace of God, ground of our acceptance with God; and, of course, that eternal life is DEAR CHILDREN:--"Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God, for best manner, the intellectual powers which God has given him, I hope you DEAR CHILDREN:--By the _heart_, I mean the moral feelings, dispositions, of God, not only that we should "love Him with all our heart and soul id = 29286 author = Moore, Henry Charles title = Noble Deeds of the World''s Heroines date = keywords = Baker; Bankes; Chalmers; Grizel; Hinderer; Hutchinson; Indians; Judson; Ladoinski; Lady; Madame; Mary; Mr.; Mrs.; Ogren; Seacole; Sir; british; man summary = ''Mr. and Mrs. Hinderer at present live in such a funny little place; Hinderer started a day school for children, and to nine little boys who his assistant missionaries, he started with Mrs. Judson on the long and Mr. and Mrs. Judson knew that he could not live long in that place. It was a great shock to Mrs. Boardman, who was in bad health, but soon she was joining her husband Quickly and silently Mr. and Mrs. Ogren, with their little nine months'' old boy, mounted, and started on crowd of jeering natives, and one fellow, with brutal glee, told Mrs. Ogren of the massacre of the lady missionaries at Ta-ning. evidently taken pity on the poor missionaries, for they supplied Mrs. Ogren with some water to wash her husband''s wounds and a powder that in this work, on the day after her arrival, she noticed a wounded man id = 20733 author = Morley, John title = Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3), Essay 1: Robespierre date = keywords = Assembly; Club; Committee; Convention; Danton; France; General; Jacobin; King; Paris; Prairial; Public; Revolution; Robespierre; Safety; Supreme; Thermidor; french; man summary = all the men of the Revolution, Robespierre has suffered most from the The time was now come when such men as Robespierre were to be tried with Robespierre had now risen to be one of the foremost men in France. Paris on the one part, and the Committee and Robespierre on the other, Danton, Robespierre, and the Committee were all equally fairer--until Robespierre''s Law of Prairial--than people usually Why, then, did Robespierre, who also passed as a man of order and to the designs of the Committee, and that if Danton and Robespierre had death of Danton, the relations between Robespierre and the Committees Danton had said: ''Robespierre is the least of a Committee came to the Convention to crush Robespierre, that would end in But Robespierre, having for the first time in his life Whether Robespierre was shot by an officer of the Conventional force, or of either Danton or of Robespierre. id = 25793 author = Morley, John title = Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 6: Harriet Martineau date = keywords = Comte; Harriet; London; Martineau; Miss; life; work; year summary = Martineau did, no doubt, seek objects far higher and more generous than Miss Martineau underwent the harsh ordeal which awaits most literary In after years, when Miss Martineau had acquired from Comte a conception Miss Martineau removed from Norwich to London, and she had good reasons So far as evening parties went, Miss Martineau soon We cannot wonder that Miss Martineau did not go a second time to the letters, in which Miss Martineau stated objections and propounded find some interest in comparing Miss Martineau''s work with the famous of work, and both of them undertaken, as nearly all Miss Martineau''s work was, not from merely literary motives, but because she thought that If Miss Martineau had given twice as many years as she gave months to unreasonable in the case of Miss Martineau herself, and she would Miss Martineau at once set her affairs in order, id = 29033 author = Morley, John title = Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3), Essay 10: Auguste Comte date = keywords = Comte; Mill; Mr.; Philosophy; Positive; Saint; Simon; social summary = doctrine connects Comte with the social thinkers of the eighteenth Towards 1818 Comte became associated as friend and disciple with a man Comte''s as if it were in some sort connected with Saint Simon''s publication of the first of Comte''s two elaborate works were years of valuable thoughts to Comte, and that, in the portion of that work feeling, and it would have been better for Comte''s later work if she Comte lost no time, after the completion of his _Course of Positive social state, in which all means of human prosperity will receive human mind explains phenomena, each way following the other in order. Comte''s special object is a study of social physics, a most eminent of the scientific followers of Comte, concedes a certain In these three volumes Comte took the sciences roughly as he Comte separates the collective facts of society and history id = 4689 author = Orr, Lyndon title = Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 1 date = keywords = Abelard; Adrienne; Antony; Charles; Christina; Cleopatra; Elizabeth; England; France; Heloise; Mary; Paris; Queen; Scotland; Stuart; english; love summary = men in private life have lost fortune and fame for the love of woman. At this time Cleopatra was twenty-seven years of age--a period of life Up to this time we do not know precisely what sort of life Abelard had He was naturally a pleasure-loving man of the world, who Mr. Martin Hume, who loves to dwell upon the later years of Queen the French king died and Mary Stuart was Queen of France as well as of Mary Stuart at this time had become a woman whose fascination was Scotland had two sovereigns, King Henry and Queen Mary. came Bothwell once again, and this time Mary knew that he was all the Charles at this time was not handsome, like his father. At this time there came to Paris a man remarkable in his own century, The royal prince who would have given her his easy love lived a life of id = 4690 author = Orr, Lyndon title = Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 2 date = keywords = Burr; Catharine; France; George; Josephine; Louise; Marie; Mrs.; Napoleon; Paris; Pauline; Peter; austrian; french; great; russian summary = When the Dauphin and Marie Antoinette came to the French court King the French court its old-time grandeur, and, so far as the queen was It was at about this time when there came to the French court a young following year Burr met a lady who, while she lived, was the only woman Napoleon''s sister, Pauline Bonaparte, was the third woman who comes to On New-Year''s Day of 1807 Napoleon, who was then almost Emperor of By this time, however, Marie Walewska had learned to love Napoleon for It was said of Napoleon long ago that he could govern emperors and By this time Napoleon had routed the Austrians in Italy, and all France Napoleon, in fact, though he loved Pauline better than his other of France, consort of the great Napoleon, and archduchess of imperial sister, of whom Napoleon himself once said: "She is the only man among id = 4691 author = Orr, Lyndon title = Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 3 date = keywords = Blessington; Byron; France; Gambetta; Houston; Jenny; Karl; Lady; Lassalle; Lola; Marx; Napoleon; Paris; Rachel; french; man summary = And again he said to an old and valued friend at about the same time: This woman during the forty-three years of her life had adventures his throne for the light love of this beautiful but half-crazy woman. "Never," said Gambetta, "shall I consent to peace so long as France what sort of a life your great man leads, and I know his habits. twenty-eight years of age and had developed into a woman of great When she married Lord Blessington her love life had not yet commenced; To this love Byron gave an immediate response, and from that time until Some time between the year 1866 and that of her death, she is said to the last years of his life, is read to-day by thousands as an almost of any woman, and after a time the Countess Walewska came to love him id = 4692 author = Orr, Lyndon title = Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Volume 4 date = keywords = Balzac; Carlyle; Dickens; George; Hugo; London; Miss; Mme; Mrs.; Musset; Paris; Reade; Sand; Shelley; Stella; Swift summary = On leaving, Swift wrote a passionate letter to Miss Waring--the only mind, and was ready to marry him; but by this time Swift had lost all Stella was accompanied by a friend--a widow named Mrs. Dingley--without whose presence, or that of some third person, Swift All these days Thomas Carlyle lived a life which was partly one of However this may be, the Carlyles, man and wife, lived an existence a woman friend, who is forty-three years of age, in these words, which that they lived together until Mme. Hugo''s death--a married life of and she lived past her eightieth year, long after the death of Mme. Hugo. Her love-life seems almost that of neither man success, Balzac received a long letter written in a woman''s hand. the mystery of the life of the woman whom he married--take up and read His books are little read to-day; yet he gave to the English id = 4693 author = Orr, Lyndon title = Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete date = keywords = Abelard; Balzac; Blessington; Burr; Carlyle; Charles; Dickens; Elizabeth; England; Europe; France; Gambetta; George; Hugo; King; Lassalle; London; Lord; Louise; Marie; Marx; Mary; Miss; Mme; Mrs.; Napoleon; Paris; Prince; Queen; Sand; Scotland; Shelley; Swift; english; french; german; love summary = men in private life have lost fortune and fame for the love of woman. At this time Cleopatra was twenty-seven years of age--a period of life the French king died and Mary Stuart was Queen of France as well as of At this time there came to Paris a man remarkable in his own century, The royal prince who would have given her his easy love lived a life of It was at about this time when there came to the French court a young following year Burr met a lady who, while she lived, was the only woman course of his long life, he had received a great quantity of letters By this time, however, Marie Walewska had learned to love Napoleon for At eight years of age he was violently in love with a young girl Some time between the year 1866 and that of her death, she is said to id = 15547 author = Overton, Jacqueline title = The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls date = keywords = Edinburgh; Lloyd; Louis; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Robert; Scotland; Seas; South; Stevenson; Vailima; York; day; home; time summary = In the life of one of Scotland''s great men, Robert Louis Stevenson, we No story of Robert Louis Stevenson''s life would be complete that failed Thomas Stevenson, the father of Robert Louis, like the others of his Stevenson, usually called Bob, visited them; a great treat for Louis, After their return to Edinburgh came the time when, his school days real sea life, delighted Stevenson, and he wrote back to Sidney Colvin: "If Stevenson ever comes to New York," he said to Mr. Low, "I want to meet him," and added that he would consider it a great Another man in New York whom Stevenson had admired for years and longed Mr. Low tells of the day at Manasquan when word was received from Mrs. Stevenson that she had found a schooner-yacht satisfactory for the The long days were spent on deck reading or working, and Stevenson began Blantyre: "Robert Louis Stevenson''s Edinburgh Days." id = 42451 author = Parkman, Mary Rosetta title = Heroines of Service Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams date = keywords = Addams; Alice; America; Barton; Curie; Dr.; Fletcher; Howe; Indians; Lyon; Mary; Miss; Shaw; Slessor; Willard; day; life; people; time; work summary = On leaving Byfield Seminary, Miss Lyon began her life-work of teaching. determined to open people''s eyes to the need of giving girls a chance princess was born in a little farm-house, to a daily round of hard work "My little daughter is learning to be a real little mother," said Mrs. Freeman, as she went about her work of churning and baking without an Yale man who was, like her father, exiled to a life in a new country, life for a time, a friend came to the rescue and "opened a new door" for "I want to ask your advice, Dr. Howe," said Miss Nightingale, one day. led a great army to victory?--a poor girl who had to work hard all day "Ah," she said to herself, "some day when I am free to live my life in Now, for the first time in her life, the young Polish girl knew work id = 46013 author = Peacock, Virginia Tatnall title = Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century date = keywords = Bonaparte; Burr; Chase; Curzon; England; Frémont; General; House; James; Jerome; John; Lady; Lord; Madame; Mary; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Patterson; President; States; United; Washington; William; York; american summary = existence of the women who gave life and color to the early years of power of woman, and to her he owed the happiest days of his life. Jerome for the first time saw the woman in whose life he was thereafter time a United States Senator and a guest at her father''s house. by death of both parents, Mrs. Eaton devoted many years of her life. social life of Washington, at a time when conversation was a fine art, Her mother, realizing the unhappy condition of her life with Mr. Lawrence, took her home, and within a year she applied to the passed out of life, a little more than two years after her marriage, The following four years of Lady Curzon''s life were spent in England Curzon, who had opened her eyes on life thirty years before in a new distinguished in the life of New York since the days when the homes of id = 22800 author = Pennell, Elizabeth Robins title = Mary Wollstonecraft date = keywords = Bishop; Blood; Dr.; Eliza; England; Everina; Fanny; France; Fuseli; George; Godwin; Imlay; Johnson; Lady; London; Mary; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Paris; Paul; Rights; Wollstonecraft; french; letter; life; time; woman summary = This time it says: "It is not for us to vindicate Mary Godwin from the confirmed by the fact that her daughter, Mary Godwin, consented to live When Mary was five years old, and before she had had time to form any Mary, Fanny, a bright-looking girl about her own age, was busy, like No one can read the life of Mary Wollstonecraft without loving her, or very different person from Mary Wollstonecraft, simple companion to Mrs. Dawson or dependent friend of Fanny Blood. A third friend, mentioned by Godwin in his Memoirs, was Mrs. Burgh, widow of a man now almost forgotten, but once famous as the author talented, and a "sweet girl," as Mary called her in a letter to Mrs. Bishop. left her little time for original work, and Godwin thought that it Mary''s letters to her husband are full of the tender love which no woman id = 27258 author = Pike, G. Holden (Godfrey Holden) title = From Slave to College President: Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington date = keywords = Armstrong; Booker; General; Hampton; South; Southern; States; Tuskegee; Washington; man; negro; work summary = | liberator of the negro slaves in the Southern States of North America, | Washington, whose distinguished work on behalf of the race at the great Southern States was brought about, Booker Washington was still able to these poor coloured slave folk, with whom Booker Washington was In their darkest days of ignorance and bondage the negro slaves showed stated to be "to train young men and women of the negro and Indian races coloured people in the Southern States, but at the time in question negro race who at that time remarked to a friend, "I''se afeard I''ll work white student is worth more to the negroes than the education of ten So far throughout the course of his working life Booker Washington has To General Armstrong and Booker Washington education would be of same time, the overwhelming need of the coloured race, and the great id = 2484 author = Plutarch title = The Boys'' and Girls'' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls date = keywords = Alcibiades; Alexander; Antony; Athenians; Athens; Caesar; Camillus; Cato; Cicero; Cimon; Greece; Greeks; Italy; Lacedaemonians; Life; Lycurgus; Marcius; Pericles; Persians; Philip; Pompey; Romans; Rome; Romulus; Solon; Sparta; Sylla; Themistocles; Theseus; Volscians; demosthene; great summary = had received, gave them battle, in which action a great number of the his father''s funeral, in a few days'' time gave the people a show of led his forces against the city; they, having suffered such great long a time amongst men as we did; and, having built a city to be the having a power equal to the kings'' in matters of great consequence, and, a single great man; while many say, that by him the common people were the public moneys; and in a short time having bought the people over, So he and his friends, when Alexander went away, were great men, and a man himself of great power in the city, and supported also by the At this time, therefore, his authority was very great in the city; but declares, that of all the great and renowned men in the city of Athens, id = 3725 author = Poland, Addison B. title = Famous Men of the Middle Ages date = keywords = Edward; England; Europe; France; Franks; God; Henry; Italy; King; Rome; english; french; illustration; roman summary = Soon after their arrival King Gunther and his men, Siegfried and his At this time the Romans had a great army in Gaul. a year, it is said, Pepin had the king dressed in his finest clothes Charlemagne was a great king in may other ways besides the fighting So the king gathered an army and marched to the city. Charles, then king of the Franks, although his people called him During the nine years of truce King Henry paid great attention Sweyn now called himself the king of England; but in a short time Every year thousands of pilgrims--kings, nobles and people of humbler king of France and Henry''s son Richard took up arms against him. my son lives," said the king. to move on Paris, the king of France raised a great army and marched he lived in the time of the English king, Edward III, when the id = 47750 author = Reynolds, Robert Rice title = Wanderlust date = keywords = Anderson; Chicago; Goodman; Jacksonville; London; Mr.; Orig; Paris; day; good; night; time; way summary = We sailed at the set time, and in the afternoon of the second day That night about dark I reached the little town of Way Cross. For some time I had been thinking of wiring home for money and that day Half the day I spent in trying to get work but at every attempt, I Spring came, and in due time summer and vacation days would follow, of hay and a good night''s rest, to be followed by another day''s labor. The train had hardly arrived when a young fellow and his girl came In the day time, between the hours of eleven and four, the streets are The last night of the miserable days which we spent in Paris came very A few days later our troubles ended, for Goodman received a letter my work I received one dollar and seventy-five cents a day, and, truly, id = 46286 author = Richardson, Merrick Abner title = Looking Back: An Autobiography date = keywords = Archibald; Aunt; Brown; Burroughs; Chicago; Galilee; God; Indians; James; Jerusalem; Jesus; Jim; John; Lake; Magdalene; Mary; Moses; Mr.; New; Peter; Richardson; Ruth; Street; Winnie; day; home; illustration summary = family record, and the story of my life, the story of Winnie and Jim. One warm May evening, in 1693, a stranger, who said his name was James and make my way to some far-away Indian tribe and in time come and take "Why, last night when Tom came home late, he said he saw two strangers "I think now is a good time to teach old Sexton to let us ride him." "A large man," he said, "came to New York from the mountains of When he came out his mother said he looked like a monkey. call, the story of Mary Magdalene and Jesus in their last days." to Jesus almost every day for nearly two years, he all the time talking Continuing, Jesus said: "No man can come to me, except the Father who "Magdalene, you know what Jesus said when alive--" id = 6125 author = Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August) title = The Making of an American date = keywords = Bend; Board; Dr.; Elizabeth; God; Hall; Health; Jacob; King; Mr.; Mulberry; New; Police; Ribe; Riis; Roosevelt; Street; York; day; good; home; illustration; know; man; old; time; way; year summary = I came to be a working boy helping build her proud father''s factory The years passed, and the day came at last when, having proved my of the old town, I think they liked me a little, anyway. In three days the iron came and proved good. came back at vacation time to renew old friendships and have a good But good hard work goes a long way toward making up for went up to Mulberry Street, that my time was coming at last. when he came on earth, had come a day at a time and brought his Some time after that I was in his office one day when a police I have come to the time of life when a man does not lay about him The old days came back to me as I looked upon that [Illustration: At Home in the Old Town The last time we were all id = 17090 author = Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison) title = Random Reminiscences of Men and Events date = keywords = Backus; Cleveland; Company; Flagler; Mr.; Oil; Rockefeller; Standard; business; great; man; work summary = people our country has produced, especially in business--men who have by working out some great problems at a time when most men want to About the time we went into the oil business Mr. Flagler went into the oil business at all, we should do the work as well as we no end to the money needed to carry on and develop the business. of business management than giving profitable work to employees year working out of many of these great plans has developed largely since I the business of the Backus Oil Company to _be taken_ from you, I was well acquainted with the works of the Backus Oil Company and effective help I should join with other business men and give great best men we have in our commercial affairs, as great business men have had so little of business training in the work-a-day world. id = 6163 author = Russell, William Ingraham title = The Romance and Tragedy of a Widely Known Business Man of New York date = keywords = Derham; London; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Slater; Viedler; Wilson; Wood; York; business; chapter; day; dollar; time; year summary = THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF A WIDELY KNOWN BUSINESS MAN OF NEW YORK successful New York business man, president of one of the largest away, I had to return to New York after a few days and look after My business during the early months of the year was good, but in business was fairly good and we had soon forgotten the hard times My business in 1879 returned me nearly sixteen thousand dollars, busy day in the city I returned home with a feeling of weariness Ten years of close application to business, much of the time under As the business between London and New York was large and I foresaw Then, too, in this dull year I made my business days shorter, a He said his own capital was very small and a wealthy friend, a Mr. Viedler, was backing him, and at that time had ten thousand dollars id = 9548 author = Sandars, Mary Frances title = Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings date = keywords = Balzac; Berny; Carraud; Fortunee; France; Gautier; Girardin; Hanska; Honore; Laure; Les; Louis; Lovenjoul; Madame; Paris; Paysans; Presse; Revue; Rue; September; Spoelberch; Surville; Vicomte; Wierzchownia; correspondance; lettre; life summary = same subject to Madame Hanska, Balzac''s enormous power of reserve, and of the letters written by Balzac, from 1833 to 1848, to Madame Hanska, long way behind Madame de Berny--without whom Balzac, as we know him, Balzac writes to Madame Hanska: "The papers will have told went to the post to claim Balzac''s letters, and through Madame Hanska Surville was ill, Madame Balzac''s reason or life was despaired of; and Balzac chose this time to consult a somnambulist about Madame Hanska, Madame Hanska, as there began to appear from this time in Balzac''s and Madame Honore de Balzac would return to Paris, and would live to a The relations between Balzac and Madame Hanska at this time are Two days later, Balzac wrote to Madame Carraud a letter in which he May. This is proved by a letter from Madame de Balzac[*] to a friend, Balzac''s letters to Madame Hanska which has been found up to this id = 7305 author = Sieveking, I. Giberne (Isabel Giberne) title = Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman date = keywords = Austria; Church; College; Dr.; England; France; Francis; Gladstone; Government; Greek; Henry; Hungary; India; Ireland; Italy; John; Kossuth; Latin; London; Lord; Martineau; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Napoleon; Newman; Nicholson; Oxford; Parliament; Professor; Russia; Sir; University; english; footnote; year summary = Done from an old drawing in the year when Francis Newman Done from an old drawing in the year when Francis Newman and John Henry later years Francis Newman declared that he had been "converted" in 1816, At that time, Cardinal Newman has said, earnest religious feeling among By this time John Henry Newman''s sermons were attracting great attention as he had been for some years the close friend of Frank Newman''s brothers, Mrs. Francis Newman was not very strong, and later in life developed As regards what Newman says about the work_women_ of England, it is My father and mother were very great personal friends of Newman''s, We now pass to Newman''s letters in the year 1856; and the first of this In December of this year Newman writes word that he has been working hard Fifty years ago Francis Newman was urging with all the force in his power id = 55353 author = Skinner, Harriet Pearl title = Boys Who Became Famous Men Stories of the Childhood of Poets, Artists, and Musicians date = keywords = Bach; Byron; Christoff; Gainsborough; Georg; Händel; London; Mary; Mr.; Mrs.; Samuel; Sebastian; Tommy; Tonin; boy summary = One summer morning, long ago, a small boy guarded his father''s sheep on over the boy''s progress in organ playing, and often rubbed his hands "No, no, Christoff, I''m sure the boy meant no harm," interposed Mrs. Bach, touching her husband''s arm with a coaxing gesture; "I knew that he turns of marching, George sat down upon a stump and waited for Mary and Now George would have writhed with shame had the boys at school heard "Where''s mother?" cried George, entering the house half an hour later. The boy looked bewildered, and resting one hand upon the table for "Let''s!" she agreed; and George took her brown little hand in his, and To-day Samuel and Charles walked about the streets for a time, then made "Homes, churches, trees, and old people''s faces," returned Samuel great world for a time, and have come back to see the old faces; and id = 46809 author = Slosson, Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) title = Six Major Prophets date = keywords = America; Bergson; Bernard; Chesterton; Dewey; England; English; Eucken; George; Germany; God; James; John; Journal; London; Mind; Mr.; New; Oxford; Philosophy; Professor; Schiller; Shaw; Society; University; Wells; York; british; life; socialism; thing summary = Walks Like a Man" makes queer reading now that England is fighting to At the very time when we were reading things like this, he was, as we of an immanent God working through nature and man to higher things Three years before the war Shaw wrote a little satirical skit, "Press professing to know just what Shaw means and believes, when most people All Shaw''s works are published by Brentano''s, New York, three plays in Of Shaw''s critical work we have in book form "The Perfect Wagnerite", biography is "George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Work" by Professor (1906, Harper), "New Worlds for Old" (1908, Macmillan), "Socialism and Like many other things in Chesterton''s works this does not sound so social philosophy in the world to-day", and "a generation which has years later Professor Eucken came to America; this time in person, but id = 48180 author = Slosson, Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) title = Major Prophets of To-Day date = keywords = Bergson; Blue; English; France; French; God; Haeckel; Institute; James; Jena; Leipzig; Maeterlinck; Metchnikoff; Monism; New; Ostwald; Paris; Pasteur; Poincaré; Professor; Science; St.; University; Vol; form; german; life; like; philosophy; time; work summary = of the _Annals of Natural Philosophy_, and Ernst Haeckel, of Jena many volumes of natural science, poetry, and philosophy. The continuous development of Maeterlinck''s philosophy of life is shown the world of thought, and his philosophy also appears to some people Bergson''s theory of personality arises naturally out of his conception have a continuous and positive development like the natural sciences, modern times mathematical science already existed, and it Academy of Sciences every five years for the best work in mathematics His philosophy of the rational science will live as long as his own of Science", one can get an idea of Poincaré''s philosophy, which is of Optimism Metchnikoff regards as the natural philosophy of old age when faith must be in the power of science.--"The Nature of Man", not from men of science like Ostwald, Mach, and Poincaré, who are so of science and philosophy from Haeckel''s point of view. id = 41756 author = Steiner, Edward Alfred title = Against the Current: Simple Chapters from a Complex Life date = keywords = America; Gentile; God; Israel; Jew; Jews; Lord; Magyar; Pany; Sabbath; boy; child; day; german; good; jewish; man; mother; race; time summary = passing through the town at night and many Jewish homes were broken into great crowd in front of the judge''s house; Jews and Gentiles alike Jewish boy, just like you." Then she kissed my lips and said, "In His "My boy," he said, "he was a Christian; but he was as good a Jew as the Coming home the next day at noon, I heard the pious men of our community quite sure I was a little Jew and every time I was called that, it hurt, business a little Jew had looking in at Gentile folks'' balls. It was the first time I had seen a man suffer great heart come from Jewish homes in the Old World, they invariably tell me that Mother cried all day, we children wept with her and my brother walked up she closed the window she said: "Come in any time you want to, little id = 16508 author = Stevenson, Burton Egbert title = American Men of Action date = keywords = April; Congress; England; Indians; Jackson; January; John; July; Lee; Lincoln; March; Mexico; New; North; Ohio; President; September; South; States; Union; United; Virginia; Washington; West; William; York; american; british summary = country''s history and development in terms of its great men. The life-work of the great navigator practically ended on the day he That victory ended the war for a time, and Washington returned to great elm on Cambridge Common, he took command of his army, and began brilliant victory really ended the war, although two years passed before army of the United States, and was given command of the Department of men-of-war to Charleston harbor and collecting a force of United States admitted to the bar, 1803; entered New York State Senate, 1812; United days later, Lee surrendered his army to General Grant. major-general, 1863; member of Congress, 1863-80; elected United States served in Civil War and was brevetted brigadier-general; United States his men, and was surprised and captured by an Indian war-party. Two years later came the great trial of his life, when he was called id = 23650 author = Sweetser, Kate Dickinson title = Ten Boys from History date = keywords = Dauphin; David; Farragut; France; God; Holy; House; Israel; Jonathan; King; Lincoln; Louis; President; Samuel; Saul; Stephen; Tad; Wolfgang summary = From that moment every day some new band came into Vendome with a young On that bright spring day a little boy whose name is said to have been Those boys were David, the son of Jesse of Bethlehem, and Jonathan, the freedom allowed young people in those days that there is now and David, So David stayed at the King''s court, and whenever Saul gave way to an And so David began his new life at the court of Saul, with Jonathan, that time, for it was as good as blood, David said, and the three men his great grief for Jonathan his friend, David, who was now the King of "My son," said the King, solemnly, "each day differs from the last, and her going, King Louis and his little son were left alone. In answer, the King told him that wicked men had said to the people id = 32363 author = Sweetser, Kate Dickinson title = Ten Girls from History date = keywords = Adrienne; Annie; Cofachiqui; Dauphin; England; France; God; Jane; Jeanne; Jenny; King; Lady; Lafayette; Maid; Mary; Princess; Queen; Sally; Soto; Tower; Victoria summary = LADY JANE GREY: THE NINE DAYS QUEEN 147 report went ahead of them, that a young peasant girl called "The Maid" the bearing of this peasant girl who said she had come to save France. France,--led to his crowning day by a Maid''s own hand,--offered not one brilliant young Queen passed slowly along." A London journal of the day At that time Carlyle said of her: "Poor little Queen! Lady Frances Dorset, Jane''s mother, was a niece of King Henry Lady Jane began to visit frequently her royal great-uncle, who was said This being so, almost before the King was buried, poor little Lady Jane Poor lonely little fourteen-year-old Lady Jane, what a clear light this Lady Jane, looking up, asked if "the Princess were present in the new Queen passed, and so began the great drama of which Jane was the of Lady Jane, the girl of seventeen, who was a "Nine Days Queen!" id = 39339 author = Terhune, Albert Payson title = Superwomen date = keywords = Adrienne; Antony; Betty; Blessington; Burr; Cleopatra; Cæsar; Emma; France; Garrick; George; Hamilton; Helen; Jeanne; Jumel; Lady; Lola; Louis; Madame; Marguerite; Marie; Napoleon; New; Ninon; Paris; Peg; Recamier; York; man summary = Beside his bed stood a fifteen-year-old girl, his only daughter, Anne; France, Richelieu fell in love with the pretty young queen. The men who once had loved Ninon de L''Enclos grew old and died, and Thus ended the great love of Peg''s life. long past the time when love can set the pulse a-flutter, and they "Madam, this time you are married to a ~man~. place lived Mark Antony, prince of lovers; a man whose sole thought the fact that she chanced to be in love with another man. For a time all went as well as any love story could with such a day to be the one real love of her life. Back to her dear, old loving mother, as before, went Marie. Super-woman and super-man, they had loved as had Cleopatra and Antony. The wedding of a fifteen-year-old girl to a man of nearly fifty. life left in his heart--his love for Jeanne. id = 26295 author = Thayer, William Makepeace title = The Printer Boy; Or, How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark An Example for Youth. date = keywords = Benjamin; Boston; Bradford; CHAPTER; Collins; England; Father; Franklin; Governor; James; John; Keimer; Mr.; New; Osborne; Philadelphia; Ralph; York; time summary = Benjamin crying over his Whistle--A Benefit--What Franklin said Put to Candle-making at Ten Years of Age--His Father a Tallowchandler--Benjamin opposed to it--Importance of Industry--His By this time Benjamin, who had said nothing in reply to their taunts present Boston little more than Benjamin Franklin blowing his whistle "I know that," said Benjamin; "and I shall try to master it, even if I After Benjamin had worked at cutlery a suitable time, his father went "That is a long time," said Benjamin; "but I shall do what you think attracted by Benjamin''s appearance, said to him: "Do you find time to "It is an excellent plan for boys to improve their minds," said Mr. Adams; "you will never regret spending your time in this way. "I tell you what it is, Benjamin," said James after having read them "I am convinced," said Benjamin, before his father had read all he id = 35586 author = Thompson, Samuel title = Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the last Fifty Years: An Autobiography date = keywords = CHAPTER; Canada; Church; City; Council; Denison; Dr.; England; General; George; Government; Governor; Hon; Institute; John; London; Lord; Mackenzie; Mr.; Quebec; Sir; St.; States; Street; Toronto; United; Upper; british; canadian summary = the old country, and began to cast a longing eye to lands where there During the following year, 1834, the Government opened up a settlement had a fair little child under two years old, named Hetty, whom we often comfortable as are the majority of Canadian farm-houses of to-day. a day''s work to his neighbour, for a logging or raising-bee; and looks There was but little sleep in Toronto that night, and next day Canada Bank, the Parliament Buildings, Osgoode Hall, Government House, In the course of the next day, Wednesday, parties of men arrived from British Government in Canada may long continue, and give a home The country was at the time in a state of general civil war; not only the first time held in Canada, at the City of Hamilton; in 1878 at Having paid my respects at the Government House on New Year''s day, I was id = 38265 author = Train, George Francis title = My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year date = keywords = America; Australia; Boston; Captain; China; Co.; Colonel; Duke; England; English; George; John; Liverpool; London; Melbourne; Mr.; New; Pacific; President; Railway; South; States; Train; Union; United; York; chapter; great summary = Our hired man came to me and said that a very pretty thing was going on some little time, and then turned to me and said: "George, I have some One day a man came to me and said, "Here is a remarkable And so I went directly to the great shipping house of I want to make my way in the world." "Well," said the colonel, Early on the following day, I went to the shipping office, and took my My life in the old shipping house of Train & Co., in Boston, lasted some One day a man came into the office and said he was from the estate of When I came to New York years afterward I was astonished to notice that Three days later the ship sailed, and McGill went on through England to the day when the mandarin came on board ship, and every time I passed id = 25915 author = Unknown title = James Lane Allen: A Sketch of his Life and Work date = keywords = Allen; Choir; Mr. summary = While "_The Choir Invisible_" was primarily a love story, the setting handling of human passion and the harmony of thought and expression Mabie is attracted more by the landscape beauty of Mr. Allen''s work, and he too makes an original contribution to our subject. "No American novelist has so imbedded his stories in Nature as has In _Summer in Arcady_ a deeper note in the treatment of Nature was distinctive in Mr. Allen''s work from the first written page. short, in _The Choir Invisible_ Mr. Allen has come to that stage of laid to rest in the contemplation of Mr. Allen''s new work which is and noblest work Mr. Allen has yet done, both in respect of that human life of the Kentucky which he loves so well. A new and complete edition of Mr. Allen''s works is now being issued by Reign of Law, A Story of the Kentucky Hemp Fields_, an account of which id = 39843 author = Various title = Women of History: Selected from the Writings of Standard Authors date = keywords = Anne; DIED; Elizabeth; England; France; God; Henry; John; Lady; London; Lord; Madame; Miss; Mrs; Paris; Queen; Rome; Sir; author; born; daughter; good; great; history; life; time; woman; year summary = world''s great men and women, as set forth in the best words of the best great and lofty spirit, joined to good sense and remarkable prudence. Of the beauty of this lady, the king took so great liking that he became the left was Mary, a child of four years of age, engaged in play; while When she first appeared in court she was a lovely young woman in her Anne Askew, a young woman of merit as well as beauty, who had great [Having lost her husband, says Bayle, this admirable woman, though left duties at court, where his engagement to an unknown beauty excited great Lady Fanshawe seems to have followed, like a good wife and daughter, two years of age, it is stated on the authority of her mother, she could Mrs Grant''s life for some years after she gave up writing for the public id = 43058 author = Vivanti, Annie title = Marie Tarnowska date = keywords = Bozevsky; Count; Elise; Kamarowsky; Kieff; Marie; Mura; Naumoff; Olga; Paul; Prilukoff; Stahl; Tarnowska; Tioka; Vassili; hand; leave; like; look summary = child still, my little snowdrop," she said, and her eyes were tender and As I went round the table, and passed my mother--poor little nervous "Oh, don''t bother your head about that tiresome old man," said Vassili, "You look like a lighted torch," said Katja. Three days later Vassili entered the drawing-room where Olga and I were Raising my eyes, I saw that Vassili was looking at me with a scowl. "Vassili," I said falteringly, "I think we ought to go away for a time." "Do you think so?" said Vassili, patting his little son''s fair head and "No," said Tioka, turning his face away. Mura!" he said, taking my face between his hands and gazing Bozevsky took his hand and looked him in the face. friends turned their eyes away from me, while on the other hand men "When my little Tioka grows up," I said to myself, "I know, alas! id = 9591 author = Whittier, John Greenleaf title = Old Portraits and Modern Sketches Part 1 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier date = keywords = Baxter; Bishop; Charles; Christ; Church; Cromwell; Dr.; Ellwood; England; God; Heaven; Hopkins; John; King; London; Lord; Marvell; Milton; Nayler; New; Parliament; Pilgrim; Quakers; Roberts; William; friend; great; life; like; man; old; time summary = beautiful with lilies;" the song of the poor but fresh-faced shepherdboy, who lived a merry life, and wore the herb heartsease in his bosom, that good man of old, who said, we ought to obey God rather than man,) George Fox himself, knowing thy beautiful young friend, (and doubtless men holding stations in Church or State, as savoring of man-worship, that old time to Quakerism and such like." time, but human nature was weak; he became, to use his own words, days, when thy Common-Prayer Book was as little regarded as an old ''you are a good Man, and God will hear your Prayers.'' I desire thee, came to the Place, the old Man found them to be his; but suffered his Honor to the true man ever, who takes his life in his hands, and, An old and lonely man looks back upon the young years id = 9592 author = Whittier, John Greenleaf title = Personal Sketches and Tributes Part 2 from Volume VI of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier date = keywords = Child; Massachusetts; Newbury; Society; great; life; love; man; old; year summary = wife was leaning on his arm,--young, loving, and beautiful; the heart midst of the green beauty of the scenery which he loved in life, and side remarkable degree the love of all loyal and generous hearts. altar of patriotism,--wealth, ease, home, love, life itself. And now, at the ripe age of eighty-five years, the brave old man has honored father of American poetry, still living to lament the death of great and good man whose memory, outliving all prejudices of creed, sect, heart of the nation proves sound and loyal, I feel a new hope for the life this brother wrote of her, "She has been a dear, good sister to me brother, Dr. Francis, we learn that when twelve years of age she went to a great measure confined to old and intimate friends, while her visits to memory holds of a wise and brave, but tender and loving woman, of whom it id = 40677 author = Winks, W. E. (William Edward) title = Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers date = keywords = Bible; Bloomfield; Bradburn; Carey; Church; Cooper; Crispin; D.D.; Dr.; Drew; England; English; George; Gifford; God; John; Lackington; London; Lord; Mr.; New; Pounds; Rev.; Robert; Samuel; Sir; Society; St.; Thomas; Wesley; William; christian; history; life; shoemaker; work; year summary = spirit, after a few years'' work at shoemaking, he made off to sea. only twenty-four years of age, a tall thin young man, with little on his Lackington commenced life as a shoemaker, and for some time after he had his apprenticeship were spent in the service of his master''s widow, Mr. Bowden having died when Lackington had served about four years. little knot of shoemakers working together lived a life of intense the day, made the new time a perpetual Sabbath, and the shoemaker''s room Samuel Drew''s life as a shoemaker came to an end with the year 1805. The story of Carey''s life and work in India cannot be followed in course of time, and the shoemaker soon began to take great delight in The useful life of this philanthropist came to an end on New Year''s Day, of age, and divided his time between field-work and shoemaking. id = 12059 author = nan title = The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters date = keywords = Abelard; Charles; Charlotte; Christ; Cromwell; Dr.; England; English; February; France; God; Goethe; Goldsmith; Heloise; January; Johnson; London; Lord; March; Mr.; Mrs.; Newton; November; Paris; Parliament; Pope; Rome; Schiller; Scotland; September; Sir; St.; Thee; day; french; great; life; man; year summary = Thus was Johnson employed during some of the best years of his life, This year, too, my great friend again came out as a politician, for This year--on March 11--Johnson lost another old friend in Mr. Topham As for my own natural life, for the time that I was without God in the But upon a day the good providence of God took me to Bedford, to work on house, a man in a most woeful state, that word of God took hold of my I was in my twenty-fourth year when I had the happiness of knowing Mr. Wordsworth personally, and by that time the occasional obscurities which My father spent the next years among the youth of the great families of great influence upon the next seven years of my life. the personal character of the great king worked on our hearts. id = 12572 author = nan title = The World''s Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters date = keywords = Alençon; April; Bernard; Byron; Cobden; Columbus; Darnley; Duke; Edinburgh; Elizabeth; England; France; God; John; July; King; Lady; Life; London; Lord; March; Mary; Mirabeau; Mr.; Nelson; Paris; Pitt; Pope; Rome; Savonarola; Scotland; Scott; Sir; Spain; St.; Washington; english; french summary = multitude, ennobling souls, directing the mind of man towards God. Let the party of fear throughout Europe consider the magnitude of the that she--Elizabeth--might marry the young King of France, Charles IX., first idea was for her to marry her child-brother-in-law, the new King of Elizabeth, and the subjection of England to Spain to work Mary''s himself was his highest duty to his country and his God. His death took place on December 14, 1799, at Mount Vernon. I was now about thirty years of age, in which time of life it is From his eighth year Scott lived at his father''s house in George Square, On Byron''s return to England, in July, 1811, that poem was placed in Mr. Murray''s hands, and thus was laid the foundation of a long connection American Civil War. The remaining years of his life were largely spent in systematic relating to the life and times of Queen Elizabeth would form a id = 18597 author = nan title = Stories of Achievement, Volume III, Orators and Reformers date = keywords = Auld; Denver; Douglass; Gardener; God; Graham; Hampton; House; Mr.; Washington; day; demosthene; life; man; time; work summary = It was said that a man came to him one day, and desired him to be his As his father''s long sickness had kept him out of school for some time, One day I thought I would not go to work, and a great inducement to ever went to at such a time; I did not feel like going to my brother; From the time that I can remember anything, almost every day of my life me to reach school on time was to move the clock hands from half-past The time that I was permitted to attend school during the day was to stop attending day school altogether, and devote all of my time through the night school after my day''s work was done. It was only a few years before that time that any white man in The invitation had come at a time when I was very busy with my school id = 18598 author = nan title = Stories of Achievement, Volume IV, Authors and Journalists date = keywords = Brontë; Charlotte; Dr.; Horace; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Smith; Street; Sullivan; York; day; little; time; work summary = It is during the time that we lived on this farm that my little story end of his days the delight he had, for the first time in his life, in nature I need not write on paper, for I think I shall always remember I earned a good deal by sewing in the evening when my day''s work was Also began another tale, but found little time to work on it, with Busy and happy times as we settle in the little house in the lane near when I _can work_, so I took my little talent in my hand and forced the Father came to see me on his way home; little money; had had a good little--and we lost no time getting to work. I learned a great many new words that day. first time longed for a new day to come. id = 19547 author = nan title = Obed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap date = keywords = August; County; Hussey; John; Maryland; Mr.; Obed; Patent; Reaper; Reaping; Society; cut; machine; sidenote summary = were the Hussey machines successful in harvesting grain and grass. "This Obed Hussey machine cutting in a good average stand of barley, nearly thirty years Obed Hussey manufactured and sold reaping machines Obed Hussey, deceased, for the extension of Reissued Letters Patent No. 449 for an improvement in Reaping Machines, dated the 14th day of April, Hussey''s, as he had invented a machine in 1831, two years before the order to invalidate Hussey''s Patent, that he invented a Reaping Machine In two trials of reaping machines by Hussey and McCormick in the same of Hussey''s reaper; in numerous cases the same machines had cut from 500 reaping machines on my farm this year cutting wheat, oats, and grass who had been accustomed to the working of the machine for some years, Mr. Hussey''s invention was (in the absence of the inventor) in the hands of id = 26421 author = nan title = Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History date = keywords = B.C.; Charlemagne; Charles; Christians; Cortes; Cæsar; Diocletian; Duke; Edward; Empire; England; English; France; Germany; God; Gustavus; Hannibal; Henry; Huniades; Italy; John; King; Olaf; Pepin; Rome; Scipio; Senate; Spain; Spaniards; St.; Trajan; Turks; William; french; illustration; roman summary = passed to the inheritance of the Persians in the year 559 B.C. When Croesus heard of the overthrow of his brother-in-law by the hands In this battle Scipio gained a great victory; 8,000 Carthaginians were Marius had formed an army barely in time to save Italy from being years later another attempt was made to stop them, but the Roman army return was crowned king for the second time. years before his father, Pepin the Short, assumed the title of king. Edward I., King of England, was the elder of the two sons of Henry thickest battle, fought for some time with great courage. length, the French king collected an immense army, and marched to leaving the king master of the field of battle, and a number of noble Hungarian army returned home in good order, and the young king made a army of 150,000 men--more than five times the number of the id = 26422 author = nan title = Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History date = keywords = April; August; Captain; Charles; Decatur; Duke; England; English; Eugene; Fort; France; General; Grant; Indians; Jones; June; Lawrence; Lee; Napoleon; New; Ney; Scott; Sheridan; Sherman; St.; States; Turenne; United; Washington; Wayne; West; american; british; french; illustration summary = turbulent times, when men were familiar with civil war, and the great Marshal Turenne, the greatest generals of that time, commanded the appointed lieutenant-general and commander-in-chief of the forces by the Austrians; but General Hoche, who was then commanding the army appointed General Bonaparte to the command of the Army of Italy, on The command of a detachment of the army sent against the French in Honoring the great commanders of the wars of the ages The late General of the United States Army, William Tecumseh war of 1812, but most of the other officers of the army were men major-general commanding, and being about the only man in the army who although he was at the time general-in-chief of the army. At this time he was in command of the Army of the appointed Commander-in-chief of the Army of the United States. Richmond which ended the war in 1865, General Grant''s army numbered id = 26423 author = nan title = Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History date = keywords = Alexander; Athens; Augustine; Augustus; B.C.; Charles; Church; David; Diogenes; England; English; France; God; Greece; Henry; Huss; Isabella; King; Knox; Lord; Louis; Luther; Mahomet; Moses; Parliament; Philip; Richelieu; Rome; Socrates; Solomon; Spain; St.; christian; great; illustration; roman; year summary = people and time, of a mind that beneath effects sought for causes, of a watch-tower, whence the old king looked forth, awaiting news of the day. Syria, the great son of David held sway, and thus was God''s ancient the year, when he was presented to the king, he is said to have excited "I am," said he to him, "the great king Alexander." "And I," replied the father died when the son was about seven years of age, leaving an estate put both empire and life on the cast of a day." Two years after the years after the death of his pupil, Alexander the Great. bishop than a judge." Although but thirty years of age at the time of the great centres of human thought and life--and a Church of England defender and civilizer of his people, the great and good King Alfred king, but not a great man. id = 26424 author = nan title = Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History date = keywords = Adams; Bismarck; Cleveland; Congress; County; Disraeli; England; Europe; France; Gambetta; General; Gladstone; Hamilton; Henry; House; Ireland; Jackson; Jefferson; John; Lincoln; Lord; March; Mr.; New; Paris; Parliament; President; States; United; Virginia; Washington; William; York; american; french; illustration summary = The Prince of Orange lost no time in apprising the States-General of his thirty-one years old when the war came to an end by the peace of great and learned men wish it; but when I have been long dead, people soon all internal questions gave way to the great contest with America. and on June 29th adopted a form of State government and elected Mr. Henry governor. same time bodies of armed men ascended from New Orleans to form a treaty of peace till the time he entered on the presidency, he read, John Adams, the second president of the United States, was born on the time in the welfare of the country, Daniel Webster, in a speech at New remained several years, during which time he completed his education. after years of hard study, he spent some time in visiting places of high-water mark of popularity--always a dangerous time for a public man. id = 28455 author = nan title = Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History date = keywords = Bayard; Bernard; Bruce; Charles; Columbus; Duke; Edward; England; English; France; Francis; Frederick; Germany; God; Great; Gutenberg; Henry; Hercules; James; Joan; John; Khan; King; Leif; Lord; Louis; Marco; Mary; New; Richard; Roland; Scotland; Sir; Smith; Spain; St.; Wallace; William; french; illustration; roman summary = personal influence, and probably planned the new expedition of that king Our great emperor Charles the King had been for seven full years in good-natured man, was then king of France, but utterly unequal to the the king in case of war, with a given number of armed men, in accordance The king, says the Saga, "thought him a man of great Harold II., the last of the native English kings, was the second son of Richard as his son, the English king sent his holiness the bishop''s coat Many of the French nobles returned home, but the king, faithful to his thus: "Great Princes, Emperors, and Kings, Dukes and Marquises, Counts, same time the dauphin was hailed King of France by his few followers. time, in after years, his share of treasure, after some great victory, struggle was so far successful that four years later King Christian, of id = 28456 author = nan title = Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History date = keywords = America; Cooper; Diet; Dr.; England; Field; France; Frémont; Garrison; George; Gordon; Government; John; July; June; Kane; Kossuth; Lafayette; Livingstone; London; Madame; March; Mr.; New; Nightingale; Paris; Roland; September; Sir; Stanley; States; Stephenson; United; Washington; Watt; York; french; illustration summary = twenty-one years old he was hanged, by order of General William good many seafaring men, were reserved for service near New York, this country in the following year, but little was accomplished Madame Roland was at this time thirty-eight years old; her brilliant apply again the next year; but poor Stephenson was discredited, Mr. George Rennie, the great bridge engineer, was employed to make a new short time passed in his youth in its vicinity, were spent by Mr. Cooper in the city of New York. conveyed to his native country upon a United States man-of-war; and Although his great life-work was finished, Mr. Garrison abated no returning flag-ship at Disco, Kane and his men reached New York, thirty miles from New York City, near the country home of his some monarchs are called "Great" and some "Little," so for all time years of age, in 1861, the great Civil War having broken out, id = 28997 author = nan title = Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History date = keywords = B.C.; Boston; Carlyle; Charles; Chaucer; Cooper; Defoe; Emerson; England; God; Goethe; Homer; Horace; Irving; Italy; John; Johnson; London; Longfellow; Milton; Molière; Mr.; New; Paris; Plato; Pope; Rome; Scott; Shakespeare; Sir; St.; Swift; Tasso; Virgil; Voltaire; William; english; great; illustration; life; man; time; year summary = was at the former place in his sixteenth year on the day when the poet far more important studies are needed for such a work." In the year his old age, lived long enough to hear of his son''s fame and feel the As years went on the poet''s love of a country life revived. Although the king thought so highly of this great work, its author was The "Great House" in New Place, where Shakespeare led the life of a middle-aged, spare man, about forty years old, of a brown complexion published six times a year; philosophy, biography, literary reviews, the composition of a great philosophical poem on Man, Nature, and began at ten years of age to write verses (says another authority), publication in book form of his "Life of Schiller." At this time he About this time he began the real work of his life. id = 29352 author = nan title = Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History date = keywords = America; Angelo; Beethoven; Cushman; England; Florence; Forrest; Garrick; Haydn; Italy; Leonardo; Liszt; London; Meissonier; Michael; Millet; Mozart; Mr.; New; Paris; Phidias; Raphael; Rome; Rossetti; St.; Theatre; Thorwaldsen; Titian; Wagner; York; great; illustration; time; work; year summary = great artists of that time, even Raphael himself, were influenced more "It is just one hundred and twenty years to-day," said a young artist his work gave full play to his originality, his pictures were looked paintings that he every year bought of young artists, formed a works, during the last years of his life, were executed: "Christ these drawings thirty years after, said they were the work of a man picture was the favorite work of the artist; he calls it, "the life By the time that Meissonier came to paint this picture, he was the time for the great Queen of Night." The day before his death he facility in music that, by the time I was six years old, I stood up Young Ludwig had little play time in his life, years of purest happiness in the great composer''s life, although early id = 35841 author = nan title = The Last Laird of MacNab An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada date = keywords = Allan; Arnprior; Canada; Chief; Council; Donald; Duncan; Excellency; Government; James; John; Laird; McNab; Mr.; Perth; Sir; Stewart; Toronto; Township; settler summary = of the township, which the Chief immediately named McNab, after himself The township of McNab has to-day been handed over to me by Sir When McNab procured from the Government the "Order-in-Council" granting settlement of McNab and drew land in the neighboring Township of Horton, will hereafter be seen in the report of the late Francis Allan, Esq. Duncan McNab wanted a good lot for farming. of the settlers in the township of McNab in your District, and you others, settlers in the township of McNab, which I trust will meet A new trial had been obtained in the Chief''s case against Duncan McNab through McNab that he had sold the township, and that all the settlers The Humble Petition of the Settlers in the Township of McNab, enclosing the petition of the settlers in the Township of McNab, statute-labor of the township of McNab for the present year id = 39079 author = nan title = Noble Deeds of American Women With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent date = keywords = Alstine; Captain; Carolina; Colonel; Dr.; Elizabeth; General; God; Indians; John; Judson; Lord; Major; Massachusetts; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Philadelphia; President; Revolution; SHAKSPEARE; Sabbath; South; Van; Washington; York; american; british; christian; time; woman summary = With two small children, a son and daughter, Mrs. Custis early found The life of Mrs. Washington, after her husband took the Presidential Mrs. Elizabeth Heard, "a widow of good estate, a mother of many children for a long period the young wife, with her little children and an aged On the burning of Royalton, Vermont, by the Indians, in 1776, Mrs. Hendee, of that place, exhibited a praiseworthy and heroic character. Mrs. Dustin had the happiness of meeting her husband and seven children, could conveniently carry off with them, they started, taking Mrs. Daviess and her children--seven in number--as prisoners, along with After he had stepped into the house, Mrs. Daviess asked him if he would drink something--and having set a bottle offered to accompany Mrs. Van Alstine to the man''s house, and although Indian women running towards her house in great haste, followed by the