BEACON BIOGRAPHIES OF EMINENT AMERICANS Edited by MA De Wolfe Howe THE aim of this series is to furnish brief, readable, and authentic accounts of the lives of those Americans whose personalities have impressed themselves most deeply on the character... Thomas Paine - Página 145por Ellery Sedgwick - 1899 - 150 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1900 - 1050 páginas
...comprehend the character and qualities of the great soldier of the Civil War." These BEACON BIOGRAPHIES give brief, readable and authentic accounts of the lives...deeply on the character and history of their country (Jefferson, Webster, Phillips Brooks, Lowell, Agassiz.andsoon). On account of the length of the more... | |
| 1902 - 524 páginas
...gratifyingly fulfils the stated purpose of that series "to furnish brief, readable and authentic accounts of those Americans whose personalities have impressed...deeply on the character and history of their country." The author, Professor George Rice Carpenter, of Columbia University, deserves hearty commendation for... | |
| Francis M. Stalker, Charles Madison Curry, Walter W. Storms - 1900 - 718 páginas
...published by Small, Maynard and Co., of Boston, under the general editorship of MA De Wolfe Howe. "The aim is to furnish brief, readable, and authentic accounts...deeply on the character and history of their country." Each volume has a frontispiece por244 245 trait, a selected bibliography, a calender of dates, and... | |
| 1899 - 242 páginas
...Compact, Beautiful, Practical, and Entertaining Series of Biographies on the Market. The aim of the series is to furnish brief, readable, and authentic...length of the more formal lives, often running into targe volumes, the average busy man and woman have not the time or hardly the inclination to acquaint... | |
| 1899 - 544 páginas
...under the editorship of Mr. MA De Wolfe Howe. The aim of the series, in the words of the prospectus, is to furnish " brief readable and authentic accounts...deeply on the character and history of their country." It is not so serious or so scholarly an undertaking as the series of "American Statesmen" and "American... | |
| 1900 - 454 páginas
...American history. Four other volumes are entered in this " WR" under Hale, Howe, Hapgood, and Trent. The aim of this series is to furnish brief, readable,...deeply on the character and history of their country. Each'volume is equipped with a frontispiece portrait, a calendar of important dates, and a brief bibliography... | |
| 1900 - 654 páginas
...published by Small, Maynard and Co., of Boston, under the general editorship of MA De Wolfe Howe. "The aim is to furnish brief, readable, and authentic accounts...deeply on the character and history of their country." Each volume has a frontispiece por245 trait, a selected bibliography, a calender of dates, and is bound... | |
| Francis Fisher Browne - 1900 - 1026 páginas
...admirable aim of the " Beacon biography tf Biographies" (Small, Maynard & т/юта, Pai«. Co) to furnien brief, readable, and authentic accounts of the lives...deeply on the character and history of their country, is carried out to the full in the volume on Thomas Paine, by Mr. Ellery Sedgwick. With an eager sympathy... | |
| Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1901 - 188 páginas
...partly from Emerson's books or the report of others; but it has more merit than many elaborate works. MA DEWOLFE HOWE, Editor. The aim of this series is...account of the length of the more formal lives, often filling one or more large volumes, the average busy man and woman have not the time, if they have the... | |
| 1901 - 1226 páginas
...house ; and Father Hecker's biography has been inserted by a competent and disinterested judge among "the lives of those Americans whose personalities...deeply on the character and history of their country " (Editor's Notice). 2. — The Autobiography of Colonel Richard Malcolm. Johnston* — how he got... | |
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