Download or read book My Own Story Classic Reprint written by Fremont Older and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Own Story It is difficult, it is almost impossible, for any one to talk about himself and his actions without unconsciously trying to excuse wrong doing or to exaggerate his better motives. I may not be able to entirely avoid these errors, but I shall try to avoid them. I shall try to tell without concealment or evasion, either for myself or others, the whole truth behind the most important chapters in San Francisco's life as a city. While I shall call this my own story, it will be the story of many editors, many reformers, many righteous crusaders against graft and crime, vice and bad people. I shall start the story when I became editor of the Bulletin in 1895. Worldly success was my only ideal. I knew nothing of life as it is really lived. I saw only shadows of men, believing that the villain, as in the plays of that day and, unfortunately, of this day, was thrown from a bridge, and the hero in even ing dress married the perfect lady in the last act. Passion ately fighting in many battles what I conceived to be evil, I gradually discovered that it was the evil in me that brought defeat. It was evil fighting evil. This truth took possession of me. I wanted others to know it. I believed it could best be understood by asking bad people who knew they were bad. 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.
Download or read book My Own Story written by Marie Dressler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Own Story: As Told to Mildred Harrington The Publishers express regret that this volume could not have appeared before the death of Marie Dressler who saw and approved the greater part of the manuscript but who was too ill either to read or give her approval of the final proofs. 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.
Download or read book The Child s Own Story Book written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Child's Own Story Book: Or Simple Tales I am glad you have come home again, mamma, said Mary, when she saw her mother get out of the coach, which brought her to her own house, whence she had been gone about a month. Indeed, mamma, I am very glad to see you once more. 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.
Download or read book My Own Story written by John Townsend Trowbridge and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Own Story: With Recollections of Noted Persons The significance of the saying (carlyle's, is it not?) that the story of any man's life would have interest and value, if truly told, is recognized, I think, by the most of us; yet each is apt to fancy at least one exception to the rule, namely, his own particular life. This certainly was the case with myself, even up to the time when I was induced - reluctantly for that reason - to undertake these memoirs. I have therefore been not a little surprised at the manner in which the chapters that appeared in recent num bers of the Atlantic Monthly have been received, and can only attribute it to whatever success I may have had in fulfilling the condition that points the saying. 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.
Download or read book Scenes of Clerical Life Classic Reprint written by George Eliot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 1900 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Scenes of Clerical Life Litany, only to feel with more intensity my burst into the conspicuousness of public life when I was made to stand up on the seat during the psalms or the singing. 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.
Download or read book The Children s Own Story Book Classic Reprint written by Norma Bright Carson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Children's Own Story Book Christmas Day would still be the birthday of the christ-child if you did not know the story of the lowly manger in Bethlehem - but there wouldn't be the same sweet meaning in the day. Fourth of July would still bring its fireworks and gayety if you had never heard of the Liberty Bell - but you wouldn't feel that thrill of pride when the flag is unfurled to the summer breeze. 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.
Download or read book In the Clutch of Circumstance written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In the Clutch of Circumstance: My Own Story, by a Burglar Out of consideration for others, as well as for personal reasons, this autobiography must obviously be written without using the names of the characters in it, including myself. My purposes in writing it are three-fold. 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.
Download or read book The Story of My Life Classic Reprint written by John Roberts Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of My Life After earnest soliciation I have prevailed on my father to write out some of the events of his romantic and eventful career. One main ommission I see in his sketch is that he has nowhere mentioned the many deeds of loving kindness he has shown to the needy and numerous gifts to the church and to every deserving person or object that came to his notice, and they have been many. In his humility he follows the injunction "Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth." In the pioneer days of Marion county he acted as physician, dentist, arbitrator of disputes, and business and spiritual adviser. His time, patience, and power have seemed to be unlimited. A keen sense of humor and ability to tell and enjoy a joke have made him friends and made his companionship delightful. His immense energy and dynamic force have manifested themselves, not only in a material way, but more than all in a religious devotion and application of the teachings of the Bible. He read to and with his children and encouraged us to memorize verses and chapters from the sacred volume. He taught us to sing. How well I remember the family group sitting by the fire. My father in the center leading and beating time to the music, every child imitating in tone and gesture. My mother, even then, was generally busy and would sing her songs while cooking, washing, ironing or mending. I have never heard sweeter music than her low tones on "Come, come, come, to the Savior," O love divine how sweet thou art," and other old songs of Zion. Our attendance at religious service was just as regular as the Lord's Day came with every extra opportunity the time and locality afforded. After all these years and as they grew old their lives prove that "The path of the just is as the shining light that shineth more and more into the perfect day." 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.
Download or read book My Very Own Fairy Stories Classic Reprint written by Johnny Gruelle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from My Very Own Fairy Stories Mama, exclaimed Elsie May, there's something squeak ing in one of the chinks in the fireplace and it stops whenever I come in. I wonder what it is. 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.
Download or read book Baby Peggy s Own Story Book written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Baby Peggy's Own Story Book: With Six Illustrations in Color SO his wife took a feather brush, and scraped the Sides and swept the floor Of the bin, and got a little flour together. Then She kneaded the dough with cream, rolled out the bun, spread it over with butter and put it in the oven. And the bun turned out Simply splendid! She took it out Of the oven and put it on the window-sill to get cold. And there the bun lay and lay, and he began to feel lonely, 80 he just took and rolled Off! From the Window-sill he rolled down on to the bench, from the bench on to the floor, and over the floor to the door. 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.
Download or read book Stories of Life and Love Classic Reprint written by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Stories of Life and Love I have chosen to put among some of my own stories and poems a few of the very best short tales, of their kind, that I know in the English language. Variety is the spice of any entertainment, and I there fore ask leave to introduce some of my friends to the dear friends who have so long known and so kindly accepted my ef forts to give them pleasure and profit. 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.
Download or read book Lincoln s Own Stories Classic Reprint written by Anthony Gross and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-03 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lincoln's Own Stories Marked degree They were told for a purpose. He was not a professronal story-teller That rs, he drd not tell stones for the sake of explortrng hrs humor. He told them as they were called into berng by events, sometrmes to Illumrne an argument or to controvert one, very often to conceal hrs purposes or to throw some persrstent rnqurrer off the trarl, at trmes to let down an ardent o ice-seeker gently. But he was a man of rnfinrte 1681? In the most human sense, and If thrs modest comprlatron serves to accentuate hrs krndlrness and patrence, hrs tactfulness and sagacrty, hrs great patrrotrsm and wrsdom, hrs unselfish devotron to the hrghest Ideals, rt wrll help to a closer understandrng of one of the great characters of the world's unfoldrng drama. 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."
Download or read book The Works of Lucian Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Lucian Lucian and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Works of Lucian, Vol. 1 But furely, my friend, general fatire, and true humour (and thefe you are kind enough to grant me), fiand as fair a chance of general approbation as any other fpecies of au thorial merit can entitle us to. 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.
Download or read book The Poetry of Catullus Classic Reprint written by David Ansell Slater and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Poetry of Catullus The favourites of the gods are released from life before they have had time to outstay their youth. The tribute to those who died young is tribute to the youth which they never lived to lose - ih part, no doubt, objective, but in part also subjective, and prompted by the thought expressed in that line of Thackeray: Oh, the brave days, when we were twenty-one! 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.
Download or read book Mother Stories Classic Reprint written by Maud Lindsay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mother Stories The Mother Play is such a vast treasure house of Truth, that each one who seeks among its stores may bring to light some gem; and though, perhaps, I have missed its diamonds and rubies, I trust my string of pearls may find acceptance with some mother who is trying to live with her children. I have written my own mottoes, with a few exceptions, that I might emphasize the particular lesson which I endeavor to teach in the story; for every motto in the Mother Play comprehends so much that it is impossible to use the whole for a single subject. From The Bridge for in stance, which is replete with lessons, I have taken only one, for the story of the Little Traveler. 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.
Download or read book The Giving Tree written by Shel Silverstein and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!
Download or read book My Own Story written by Emmeline Pankhurst and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Own Story (1914) is a memoir by English political activist and suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Written at the onset of the First World War, My Own Story brings attention to Pankhurst’s cause while defending her decision to cease activism until the end of the war. Notable for its descriptions of the British prison system, My Own Story is an invaluable document of a life dedicated to others, of a historical moment in which an oppressed group rose up to advocate for the simplest of demands: equality. Born in a politically active household, Emmeline Pankhurst was introduced to the women’s suffrage movement at a young age. In 1903, she founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), an organization dedicated to the suffragette movement. As their speeches, rallies, and petitions failed to make headway, they turned to militant protest, and in 1908 Emmeline was arrested for attempting to enter Parliament to deliver a document to Prime Minister H.H. Asquith. Imprisoned for six weeks, she observed the horrifying conditions of prison life, including solitary confinement. This experience changed her outlook on the struggle for women’s suffrage, and she increasingly saw imprisonment as a means of radical publicity. Over the next several years, she would be arrested seven times for rioting, destroying property, and assaulting police officers, and while in prison staged hunger strikes in order to gain the attention of the press and political establishment. My Own Story is a record of one woman’s tireless advocacy for the sake of countless others. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Emmeline Pankhurst’s My Own Story is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.
