Download or read book The Boy s Wellington Classic Reprint written by Harold Felix Baker Wheeler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Boy's Wellington In a way, Wellington is the typical John Bull of our fancy. He gloried In an open air life, he enjoyed sport, he was a man wedded to duty, stern and uncompromising once his mind was made up. We love to imagine that the average Briton displays the same characteristics, although we know at heart that he does not do so, and that the secret of our material success as a nation is our extraordinary power of absorption, of setting our sail to every passing breeze, of compromising provided we get the best of the bargain. This is how the Duke appeared to a foreigner, the Duchesse de Dino, Talleyrand's niece: He has a very exact memory, and never quotes incorrectly. He forgets nothing, and exaggerates nothing, and if his conversation is a little dry and military, it attracts by its fairness and perfect propriety. His tone is excellent, and no woman has ever to be on her guard against the turn that the conversation may take. In later years Wellington's memory failed somewhat. He was invariably precise, always a soldier, and never given to what is generally known as small talk. In a word, he commanded. A more intimate and less familiar view of Wellington is afforded us in the diary of Benjamin Robert Haydon, who painted the Duke's portrait at Walmer Castle in the autumn of 1839. During breakfast, he tells us, six dear, healthy, noisy children were brought to the windows. Let them in, ' said the Duke, and in they came, and rushed over to him, saying, How d'ye do, Duke How d'ye do, Duke One boy, young Grey. 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 Boy s Wellington written by Harold Felix Baker Wheeler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Boy's Wellington In this, the last of a trio of volumes dealing with three great contemporary men of action, I have attempted to tell the story, in its main lines, of the crowded life of Wellington. The narrative provides as substantial a view of Wellington as is possible within the limits of my space, but I hope that readers of my book will be so interested that they will go on to the perusal of its companions, for the careers of Napoleon, Nelson, and Wellington should be studied together. They are the three sides of a triangle of which Napoleon is the base. The Duke's career, when compared to the others, is "a plain, unvarnished tale," not altogether devoid of romance, certainly not of adventure, but lacking in many of the qualities which have endeared less notable men. It would be obviously untrue to state that Wellington lacked humanity, but he was certainly deficient in that attractive personal magnetism so evident in Nelson. Speaking broadly, he did not repose that confidence in his subordinates which was one of the great sea-captain's most marked characteristics, and he often said hard things of the men under him. Nelson is "the darling Hero of England"; Wellington will always be known as the Iron Duke. If it ever became the fashion to canonize military and naval men, Nelson's nimbus would be of rosemary, Wellington's of steel. The mob never broke the windows of Merton Place, but it shattered every exposed pane in Apsley House. 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 Boy s Wellington written by Harold Felix Baker Wheeler and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Wellington Classic Reprint written by George Hooper and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wellington Much home-life after he had passed out of the nursery. Certain it is that he rarely alluded to his early days, and the conduct attributed to Lady Mornington may account for his perfunctory visits to her when he was the Duke, which made Mr. Greville, who could know nothing of the facts, write him down a hard man. At some time, then, he was placed in a school at Chelsea, whence, for a brief period, he went to Eton. In neither did he shine, and it has been often said that, in after years, when Eton was proud of him, nothing could be remembered to his credit or discredit except that he fought a battle with Bohus Smith, the brother of the witty Canon of St. Paul's. From Eton he was sent to a French military school, England, according to her wont, having none of her own, and no military institutions of any sort, nothing but makeshifts for institutions. The French school selected for Arthur Wesley was at Angers on the Maine. Mr. Raikes was told by General Sir A. Mackenzie that the school was much frequented by young Englishmen, because the Governor, the Marquis de Pignerol, an Engineer, looked after their studies, and also because his brother had a fine riding-school. The General remembered the young Arthur, but all he could say was that the boy was rather weak in health, not very attentive to his studies, and constantly occupied with a little terrier called Vick, which followed him everywhere. A more definite glimpse of the student than that we cannot get: it is as vague as the boxing match at Eton 5 but it enables us to picture the slim bright-eyed boy, idling in the streets of the picturesque old town, or playing with Vick on the steep cliffs which rise out of the water just below the confluence 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 Boy Life Its Trial Its Strength Its Fulness written by Edward White Benson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Boy-Life; Its Trial, Its Strength, Its Fulness: Sundays in Wellington College, 1859-1873; Three Books Proverbs xx. 17. - Bread of deceit is sweet to a man, but after wards his mouth shall be filled with gravel. 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 Gentle Boy written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Gentle Boy: And Other Tales The story was printed first anonymously in The Token for 1832, an illustrated annual, and two years after it appeared as one of the first series of Twice Tolcl Tales, it was published as a volume by itself by Weeks, Jordan Co., Boston, 1839. The interest attaching to this independent publication is derived from the fact that it had a frontispiece from a draw ing made for it by Miss Sophia A. Peabody, to whom not long after Hawthorne became engaged, and Whom he married in 1842. 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 Boy and the Book Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Boy and the Book This kind of knowledge which Hans had been picking up ever since he was a very young child, made him at twelve years old a most useful little personage, and although he had never learned to read or write, or even been in a school, yet he could not by any means be called ignorant, for he not only oh served and remembered all that came in his way, but he turned his knowledge to the best account by making it of use to himself and others. We say that Hans could neither read nor write, but it must not therefore be thought that such acquirements were not valued in those days on the contrary, it was considered at that time one of the very best and most desirable things in the whole world to be able to read, and one of the cleverest things in the world to be able to write; while he who was so happy as to be the possessor of a book was esteemed one of the most fortunate of human beings. 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 Lost Boy Classic Reprint written by Henry Van Dyke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lost Boy The Boy was the joy of the journey. His keen interest in all things seen and heard was like a refreshing spring of water to the older pilgrims, who had so Often traveled the same road that they had forgotten that it might be new every morning. His unwearying vigor and pure gladness as he leaped down the hillsides, or scrambled among the rocks far above the path, or roamed through the fields filling his hands with flowers, was like a merry song that cheered the long miles of the way. He was, glad to be alive, and it made the others glad to look at him. 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 Wellington as Military Commander written by Michael Glover and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on lively accounts of privates, sergeants, officers and Wellington himself, with unrivalled descriptions of strategy, weapons and formations, it takes us right into the heart of the battlefield."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Boy and the Birds Classic Reprint written by Emily Taylor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Boy and the Birds Where the grey clouds their parting make, There in the dawn am I The early sun has seen me take Gaily my flight on high. Who does not love the cheerful lark, Whose song is still Of joy? Merrily singing, up he-goes; Good bye, dull earth, good bye. Airs OF the rhine. 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 Boy s Book Classic Reprint written by Mrs Lydia Howard Sigourney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Boy's Book Excrrme stories, have, during our own times, en tered widely into the literature for unfolding minds. Yet, among reflecting parents and teachers, who feel that a right education is peculiarly the safe-guard of our country, there is an increasing demand for works founded on solidity of principle, and which present Knowledge, and morality, without the disguise of fiction. 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 Making of Wellington College written by Joseph Louis Bevir and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Making of Wellington College: Being an Account of the First Sixteen Years of Its Existence Benson was a masterful Master, and that's what we Wellington boys of the early days required and did not resent. He was not one of those who creep about dormitories in carpet slippers, or get hold of little boys and in a P. J. (pi jaw) work upon religious feelings till they confess that Smith Major said d Benson would have died sooner than do that. We boys at Wellington in the sixties were diamonds no doubt, but (begging pardon for saying so) diamonds in the rough. I had come from an establishment where young noblemen with - obviously - a sprinkling of the less noble, used to be crammed for Eton. 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 B O W A Book for Boys Classic Reprint written by De Mille and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The B. O, W. A Book for Boys Soon the silence was disturbed by a knock at the door communicating with the bed-room. The boy near the bust gave it three smart raps, upon which the door opened, and a figure entered clothed like the others in the room. On entering he made a low bow, and then stood erect. The four figures in the room raised their hands to their faces with a peculiar gesture. Blood l said they in solemn tones. Thunder! Said the boy at the door, making the same gesture. Is the Grand Panjandrum with you, Venerable Warden? Said the figure on the dais. 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 The Boy Trapper Classic Reprint written by Harry Castlemon and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Boy Trapper Father is the only one who has done anything to be ashamed of, and he made matters worse by running away. If he would come home and attend to his business no one would say a word to him. The General told me so this morning. 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.
