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Updated: June 23, 2025
That Gibbon has been weighed and not found wanting is because he was as honest and truthful as any man who ever wrote history. The autobiographies and letters exhibit to us a transparent man, which indeed some of the personal allusions in the history might have foreshadowed.
In 1841 the first Negro magazine began to appear, this being issued by the A.M.E. Church. There were numerous autobiographies, that of Frederick Douglass, first appearing in 1845, running through edition after edition. On the stage there was the astonishing success of Ira Aldridge, a tragedian who in his earlier years went to Europe, where he had the advantage of association with Edmund Kean.
They also invoked blessings on his father and mother, and wished him long life. Attention has already been called to the very great importance of the autobiographies of the military and administrative officials of the Pharaohs, and a selection of them must now be given.
Some of them, in their autobiographies, have made, by the way, very suggestive remarks on the importance they attribute to sound: and, moreover, the musical world, with its notes, its intervals, and its orchestration, lives and develops in a manner totally independent of vibration. Perhaps we can here quote one or two examples which may give us a lead.
The published speeches of Douglass, of which examples may be found scattered throughout his various autobiographies, reveal something of the powers thus characterized, though, like other printed speeches, they lose by being put in type.
1.Forty-Four Years of the Life of a Hunter; being Reminiscences of MESHACH BROWNING, a Maryland Hunter; roughly written down by Himself. By WILLIAM HENRY MILBURN. New York: Derby & Jackson. 1859. pp. 363. BENVENUTO CELLINI was right in his dictum about autobiographies; and so was Dr. Kitchener, in his about hares. First catch your perfectly sincere and unconscious man.
Even later the hope often reappeared, but always in vain, and I cannot boast of that sure recognition which one reads of in the autobiographies of Urnings. I do not know personally a single fellow-sufferer. It is also doubtful whether such an acquaintanceship would greatly help me, for I have a very peculiar conception of homosexuality.
Yes! you sigh with an air, it is in the unconscious autobiographies we are every moment writing not those we publish in two volumes and a supplement where the truth about us is hid. Truly it is a thought that has 'thrilled dead bosoms, I agree, but why be afraid of it for that, Reader? Truth is not become a platitude only in our day.
"Aren't they under your feet wherever you turn their performances, their portraits, their speeches, their autobiographies, their names, their manners, their ugly mugs, as the people say, and their idiotic pretensions?" "I daresay it depends on the places one goes to. If they're everywhere" and she paused a moment "I don't go everywhere."
For the most part she took less interest in the books themselves than in the people who wrote them; biographies, autobiographies, and any scrap of anecdote about authors and their methods she eagerly devoured.
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