Download or read book Recollections of a Varied Life Classic Reprint written by George Cary Eggleston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of a Varied Life Mr. Howells once said to me: Every man's life is interesting - to himself. I suppose that is true, though in the cases of some men it seems a difficult thing to understand. At any rate it is not because of personal interest in my own life that I am writing this book. I was perfectly sincere in wanting to call these chapters The Auto biography of an Unimportant Man, but on reflection I remembered Franklin's wise saying that whenever he saw the phrase without vanity I may say, some peculiarly vain thing was sure to follow. I am seventy years old. My life has been one of unusually varied activity. It has covered half the period embraced in the republic's existence. It has afforded me opportunity to see and share that development of physical, intellectual, and moral life conditions, which has been perhaps the most marvelous recorded in the history of mankind. 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 Recollections of a Varied Life written by Eggleston George Cary and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Download or read book Recollections of a Varied Career Classic Reprint written by William F. Draper and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of a Varied Career It may seem presumptuous for a man of ordinary talent, such as I esteem myself, to write his Memoirs; the only good excuse, perhaps, being that his experiences have been out of the ordinary. I began to write simply with the view of leaving a record for my descendants; but as I wrote, it seemed to me that few lives had covered as wide a field as my own. My public experience, - as a soldier in time of war, a Member of Congress while great questions were under consideration, and a diplomat, also in war time, - would be hard to equal in variety; and my private life covers invention in important lines, and a business career, commencing as an employee and closing as the head of a large industrial establishment, perhaps the largest in Massachusetts that is owned by its managers. I venture to believe that a portion of the great public may be interested in my story; but if not, no harm is done, as the book will serve the purpose for which it was originally intended. 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 Recollections of a Varied Life written by George Cary Eggleston and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding

Download or read book Recollections of a Varied Life written by George Cary Eggleston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a memoir by the well-known American author and journalist, George Eggleston, who lived and worked in the last part of the 19th century. In the book, he describes various incidents that have arisen during his work and reflects on the 'new' era of post-Civil War America.

Download or read book Recollections of Middle Life Classic Reprint written by Francisque Sarcey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of Middle Life Ment of Public Instruction as professor of the third class, his first assignment being to Chaumont. But at the outset of his career he gave serious offence to the authorities by an extravagant remonstrance against the order requiring professors to cut off their mus taches, and he never overcame the effect of this youth He was banished to remote and unimportant stations - Lesneven (finisterre), Rodez, Grenoble - and passed, with difficulty and slowly, through the grades to that of Professor of Philosophy. Of philosophy M. Sarcey has, as the reader will see, a varied and useful store, but it hard. 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 Rembling Recollections Classic Reprint written by Pearse Morrison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rembling Recollections I have reached my anecdotage after many years of hard work and varied experience, and my friends listen very kindly to my stories of the changes that have come to London since I entered it in 1859. They do more than listen: they suggest that it would be no bad idea to set my recollections down in book form and seek to interest a wider circle. I have done so; and present them to you in all modesty, without claiming for them any of the special interest that attaches to the life of soldier or statesman, or any of the gifts that belong of right to the life story of a man of letters. My little record is of changing times, of disappearing landmarks, of men and women who were much esteemed by your fathers when they went to the play, of colleagues who have worked by my side on the City Corporation, of which I have been a member since 1878. I have set it all down in simple fashion, as one man speaks to another. If such a plain tale can please you I shall indeed be pleased and, if it cannot, I must be content with the pleasure I have derived from recalling old times, old associations, and old 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.

Download or read book Recollections of a Happy Life Classic Reprint written by Elizabeth Christophers Hobson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of a Happy Life We received but little encouragement. Mrs. Hobson, in full health and vigor not withstanding her seventy odd years, was actively engaged in various pursuits, both grave and gay. She had not time she had nothing of interest to say - there are so many memoirs not worth reading. Finally, Mrs. Richard Aldrich conceived the happy idea of putting into verse a Peti tion, a petition which, signed by twenty-four of Mrs. Hobson's friends, was sent to her, in the spring of 19073. 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 Recollections written by Frank Thomas Bullen and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections: The Reminiscences of the Busy Life of One Who Has Played the Varied Parts of Sailor, Author and Lecturer And yet I feel very strongly that an Introduction to this book is needed, if ever a book needed such a thing. For I really believe that it may be my last; I dare not be more definite than that, though I would dearly love to emulate those giants of literature who can calmly announce that they have written their last page for publication, that for good or ill their message has been delivered and they will say no more. Ah no, fate has not dealt kindly enough with me for that, and because the snarl of the proverbial wolf is never out of my ears and the Spoor of his stealthy footfall is but too clearly traceable near my door, I must still be ready to take up my pen. This Introduction may serve as my valedictory, if, as it is most reasonable to expect, this book happens to be my last. 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 Recollections of My Life Vol 3 of 3 Classic Reprint written by Maximilian I. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Recollections of My Life, Vol. 3 of 3 This morning found us off the lofty, far-extending ridges of Teneriffe. Although the day was cloudy, the panorama that presented itself was very interesting, and new ln its features. Picturesquely did the long serrated ridge of the volcanic mountain display itself, with its sharp angular summit, its pointed Needles which, springing as it were from an extraneous nature, gazed up towards heaven from among the dark clouds, sometimes like the menacing finger of a giant, sometimes like the tower of a lofty ruin. Various deep rifts of volcanic origin extend down the heights, casting their deep shadows over the picture, even to the boiling sea. Between these, and flowing gently down from the black peaks of rock to the ocean, are the layers of cold lava. Thousands of years ago they caused death now Victorious nature (as on the ridges of Vesuvius) pursues her upward course over the vanquished lava. That the volcano has long been silent one may see by the fresh turf which creeps over the red earth almost to the top of the highest summit; by the pine woods, which force a way for themselves among the picturesque masses of rock and finally by the numerous houses and hamlets which, scattered among fields of well-ordered husbandry, enliven the sombre scene in a cheerful manner far up thc height. The whole resembles the northern coast of Madeira: one finds the same red-coloured soil, the same turf growing on the mountains, the same dusky colouring in the masses of rock; only, in addition to these. 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 Personal Recollections written by Martha Somerville and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Personal Recollections: From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville, With Selections From Her Correspondence Nor is her simple account of her early days without interest, when, as a lonely child, She wandered by the seashore, and on the links of Burntisland, collecting shells and owers or spent the clear, cold nights at her window, watching the starlit heavens, whose mysteries she was destined one day to penetrate in all their pro found and sublime laws, making clear to others that knowledge which she herself had acquired, at the cost of so hard a struggle. 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 Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life, Vol. 1 of 2 My father's name was Nehemiah Tinker. He was born at Mansfield, Conn. In 1740, of parents not in very affluent circumstances, it may be presumed, for he, and a younger brother, were apprenticed to a shoe maker. Before he was twenty-one years old, he set up the business of shoemaking, on his own account, in the adjoining town of Windham, then the shire town of Windham county. I have it from undoubted tes timony, that he was an excellent shoemaker - that he carried on a large business - and acquired a handsome property. That he possessed some share of the respect and confidence of his fellow citizens, I infer from the fact, that, for several years, he was a deputy-sheriff, the gaoler of the county, and a captain in the militia. This rank he held at the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. In March, 1776, when the militia from various parts of New England were offering their services to strengthen the army that was besieging Boston, the company under his command volunteered in the cause, and, with such equipments and provisions as the town could furnish, marched as far as Pomfret on their way to join the patriot army. At Pomfret they received intelligence of the evacuation of Boston by the British troops, and returned home. 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 Recollections of a Southern Daughter written by Cornelia Jones Pond and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first unabridged publication of the memoirs of Cornelia Jones Pond, a privileged child of a slaveholding family in Georgia, follws her life from her birth into the antebellum world of 1834, through the apocalyptic Civil War, and beyond. UP.

Download or read book Lady Login s Recollections written by Edith Dalhousie Login and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Lady Login's Recollections: Court Life and Camp Life, 1820-1904 Although few Of those who saw her in her later years could fail to recognise in her a strong personality, a wonderfully clear judgment and a keen insight into character, coupled with immense force of will and Vitality, I doubt if the majority of her acquaintances realised the strangely varied scenes through which my mother had passed in the course of a' long life, and how closely, on occasion, She had been brought into contact with the men and women who made the history of the nineteenth century. 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 Personal Recollections of the Life and Times With Extracts From the Correspondence of Valentine Lord Cloncurry Classic Reprint written by Valentine Cloncurry and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Personal Recollections of the Life and Times, With Extracts From the Correspondence of Valentine Lord Cloncurry Right. I have added a. Few anecdotes and explanations which occurred to me in the course of a perusal of the earlier publication. In the political opinions I first ex pressed, in relation to the past, the present, or the future, as I feel no alteration I have made no change. Whether they were right or wrong, they were and are sincerely entertained and honestly told, and it is with a deep sense of satisfaction I now gratefully acknowledge that, with perhaps a single exception, they were received in a. Frank and kindly spirit, both by those who generally agree with, and those who altogether dissent from, them. There have been, perhaps, few autobiographers who, upon the whole, have had less occasion to complain of. 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.

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Download or read book Memories of Four Continents written by Elizabeth Rosetta Glover and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memories of Four Continents: Recollections Grave and Gay of Events in Social and Diplomatic Life N writing these recollections of a varied life, Iduring which I have met many celebrities and seen many interesting outposts of Empire, I have given very few dates except historical ones, because I have been backwards and forwards so many times to Newfoundland, our oldest Colony, to Canada, and elsewhere, when my husband was appointed to official positions or was summoned to aid with his advice and experience in crises and emergencies, political and industrial. These visits are mentioned in these pages, and if I gave the dates of my frequent comings and goings, the book would assume the character of a journal - generally tedious reading. Nevertheless, I hope these impressions, which are written as they occur to my memory, and are not by any means given in chronological order, will interest some of that large majority of people who have been unable to visit the places in our Dominions which I have tried, however inadequately, to describe. Watching the development and psychology of nations is a very interesting study, and the more we do so the better we are likely to understand other nations and sense the position of our own. 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.