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Book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley Classic Reprint written by Mary Lesley Ames and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley IT has been my desire in writing this Memoir to give a lifelike impression of my father and mother. They were unusually full of vitality, their interests were varied, and their affections strong and constant. Any account of them which did not show their abundant strength of mind and heart would be of little value. The most direct and natural way to accomplish this end has seemed to be the use of their own intimate correspond ence, since by self-revelation rather than by the description of others is the most vivid impression of personality made. Fortunately we had for use not only the long series of their letters, but also a large number of letters to intimate friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley  Vol  2 of 2  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley Vol 2 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Mary Lesley Ames and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley, Vol. 2 of 2 MY father had been for some time failing in health. Whether the excitement of his three delightful months in Boston, was more than his always delicate nervous organiza tion could endure, or whether there were other causes, the fact is clear that soon after his return to Philadelphia in the spring of 1866 he became very ill. He then planned to go abroad for a few months, but as summer approached he became stronger and gave up the idea. All through this season, however, he continued to suffer much with distressing nervous and brain symptoms, and also with bodily weakness, until it was evident that rest from mental labor must be had at any cost. My mother sought the advice of the best physicians in Philadelphia, and each' counselled an entire abandonment of work, change of scene, and a mild climate. Difficult as it was to afford such things, my mother decided at once that they must be obtained. After a few days of preparation they sailed on October 6, for Havre, in the Ville de Paris, in the hope that a year of absence from all that could remind him of his work, might restore his powers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley

Download or read book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley written by Mary Lesley Ames and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley It has been my desire in writing this Memoir to give a lifelike impression of my father and mother. They were unusually full of vitality, their interests were varied, and their affections strong and constant. Any account of them which did not show their abundant strength of mind and heart would be of little value. The most direct and natural way to accomplish this end has seemed to be the use of their own intimate correspondence, since by self-revelation rather than by the description of others is the most vivid impression of personality made. Fortunately we had for use not only the long series of their letters, but also a large number of letters to intimate friends. It is always difficult to decide how much or how little of a private correspondence it is proper to give to the public in such an undertaking. But, if a true picture is to be shown, family reserve must be thrown aside to some extent, and something more than the mere chronicle of events or the statement of abstract opinions must be included. In preparing these volumes, I have had it constantly in mind that they would be read by many friends for whom everything that related to my father and mother would have interest, and perhaps on that account I have included more than would have been done for an impersonal public. The method of portraiture by means of letters has the disadvantage of lack of continuity in any particular subject. But what it lacks in that respect it gains in vividness. And, since I have not so much wished to make a full record of the external events of their lives as to give a faithful picture of their personalities, I have felt this method to be best fitted to my purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley

Download or read book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley written by John James Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Peter and Susan Lesley  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Peter and Susan Lesley Classic Reprint written by Charles Gordon Ames and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Peter and Susan Lesley It is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment. - hebrews ix. 27 (rev. Every day, by Speech or in silence, we pass judgment upon our fellows; and, when they die, we sum up our little imperfect knowledges, mixed with guesses and impressions, and pronounce a qualified sentence of praise or blame for the deeds done in the body This fact of itself has made thought ful men in all ages regard death as a solemn crisis in the history of a man. It is the closing of a chap ter, the making up and balancing of an account. Our moral sense, in its small way, affirms that every man must at last pass for what he is, when his life is reviewed and his character scrutinized by the All-seeing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley

Download or read book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley written by John James Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley

Download or read book Life and Letters of Peter and Susan Lesley written by Mary Lesley Ames and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life and Letter of Peter and Susan Lesley

Download or read book Life and Letter of Peter and Susan Lesley written by Mary Lesley Ames and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pacific Unitarian

Download or read book The Pacific Unitarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 830 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle

Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Author : James Silk Buckingham
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  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 832 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Free a Family

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  • Author : Sydney Nathans
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2012-02-13
  • ISBN : 0674063295
  • Pages : 361 pages

Download or read book To Free a Family written by Sydney Nathans and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like for a mother to flee slavery, leaving her children behind? To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her family. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family’s fate. This story is anchored in two extraordinary collections of letters and diaries, that of her former North Carolina slaveholders and that of the northern family—Susan and Peter Lesley—who protected and employed her. Sydney Nathans’s sensitive and penetrating narrative reveals Mary Walker’s remarkable persistence as well as the sustained collaboration of black and white abolitionists who assisted her. Mary Walker and the Lesleys ventured half a dozen attempts at liberation, from ransom to ruse to rescue, until the end of the Civil War reunited Mary Walker with her son and daughter. Unlike her more famous counterparts—Harriet Tubman, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner Truth—who wrote their own narratives and whose public defiance made them heroines, Mary Walker’s efforts were protracted, wrenching, and private. Her odyssey was more representative of women refugees from bondage who labored secretly and behind the scenes to reclaim their families from the South. In recreating Mary Walker’s journey, To Free a Family gives voice to their hidden epic of emancipation and to an untold story of the Civil War era.

Book The Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen  Classic Reprint

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen Classic Reprint written by Frederic William Maitland and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen Leslie Stephen left behind him many and good friends. Sixty at least of them have helped me in the making of this book. Some have supplied information, some have lent letters, some have written sentences or paragraphs which with due acknowledgment will appear hereafter. I hope and believe that I have thanked all of them severally and in private for their kindness and courtesy. If now in thanking them jointly and in public I do not name them, that is partly because they are so many, and partly because a prefatory parade of their names might raise hopes that this book will not fulfil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book The Ohio Journal of Science

Download or read book The Ohio Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes book reviews and abstracts.