Author: Thornwell Jacobs
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The Life of William Plumer Jacobs
Author: Thornwell Jacobs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The Life of William Plumer Jacobs (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thornwell Jacobs
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ISBN: 9781332774708
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Excerpt from The Life of William Plumer Jacobs HE value of a human life to his fellows and, I therefore, of any biography to a library con sists not in the name of the subject, nor in that of the town in which he lived. Neither do the names of his loved ones nor their number avail, nor his length of years with their praises and honours, to make the record of his days valuable. But if to these things which he holds in common with other men be added some new quality of struggle, some new fineness of sentiment, some new cleverness of thought; or if per chance there was discovered in his career an old truth, and one almost forgotten, to be set aglow with a mar vellons light, then, ere he has walked to the end of his lonely path - for it is always lonely - men are following in the glow of his torch and when his career is done the very glory of God is seen to illumine his footway. That is why the details of a man's life are usually uninteresting and the one thing he thought or felt or did fascinates. The details of Robert Fulton's days or the grandparents of Abraham Lincoln are only so much chaff swept aside by the wind of human thought seeking the kernel of their life-discoveries. So it is ever. A man must be just like his fellows to be of any value to them. 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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ISBN: 9781332774708
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Excerpt from The Life of William Plumer Jacobs HE value of a human life to his fellows and, I therefore, of any biography to a library con sists not in the name of the subject, nor in that of the town in which he lived. Neither do the names of his loved ones nor their number avail, nor his length of years with their praises and honours, to make the record of his days valuable. But if to these things which he holds in common with other men be added some new quality of struggle, some new fineness of sentiment, some new cleverness of thought; or if per chance there was discovered in his career an old truth, and one almost forgotten, to be set aglow with a mar vellons light, then, ere he has walked to the end of his lonely path - for it is always lonely - men are following in the glow of his torch and when his career is done the very glory of God is seen to illumine his footway. That is why the details of a man's life are usually uninteresting and the one thing he thought or felt or did fascinates. The details of Robert Fulton's days or the grandparents of Abraham Lincoln are only so much chaff swept aside by the wind of human thought seeking the kernel of their life-discoveries. So it is ever. A man must be just like his fellows to be of any value to them. 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.
The United States Catalog; Books in Print January 1, 1912
Author: H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher: Minneapolis ; New York : H.W. Wilson
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2174
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Publisher: Minneapolis ; New York : H.W. Wilson
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2174
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The United States Catalog
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2202
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2202
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The United States Catalog
Author: Eleanor E. Hawkins
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2222
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The United States Catalog Supplement, January 1918-June 1921
Author: Eleanor E. Hawkins
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
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The Cumulative Book Index
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2212
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A world list of books in the English language.
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2212
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A world list of books in the English language.
The Mind of the Master Class
Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139446568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 843
Book Description
The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139446568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 843
Book Description
The Mind of the Master Class tells of America's greatest historical tragedy. It presents the slaveholders as men and women, a great many of whom were intelligent, honorable, and pious. It asks how people who were admirable in so many ways could have presided over a social system that proved itself an enormity and inflicted horrors on their slaves. The South had formidable proslavery intellectuals who participated fully in transatlantic debates and boldly challenged an ascendant capitalist ('free-labor') society. Blending classical and Christian traditions, they forged a moral and political philosophy designed to sustain conservative principles in history, political economy, social theory, and theology, while translating them into political action. Even those who judge their way of life most harshly have much to learn from their probing moral and political reflections on their times - and ours - beginning with the virtues and failings of their own society and culture.
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Who's who in America
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2930
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2930
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