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This extract is taken from the autobiography of Daniel Boone, written from his own dictation by John Filson, and published in 1784. Some writers have censured this production as inflated and bombastic. To us it seems simple and natural; and we have no doubt that the very words of Boone are given for the most part.
As I said awhile ago, 'young Henry swells around and talks big; the old man he says nothing and chaws tobacco." McClure's Magazine printed during last summer and fall the Autobiography of Harry Orchard, with its confessions of wholesale assassinations during the labor war in the mining districts of the West.
H.C. Thomas, The Return of the Democratic Party to Power in 1884 , contains useful chapters on Garfield and Arthur. For Platt's account of the annual reunion and banquet of the three hundred and six "The Old Guard" see Autobiography, 115.
These observations are not founded on the report of others, but on the fragment which remains of his own sketch of his life, a piece of infinite curiosity." His autobiography has been edited by Horace Walpole and Scott. In 1582 he was admitted Master of Magdalen College in the same University, and in 1593 he succeeded Dr.
P.S. In Francis's Fragment of Autobiography he speaks of this translation as his own; and says that upon accepting his appointment to India he surrendered all his papers to Stephen Baggs, 'in whose name the translation had been published. See 'Memoir of Sir P.F. vol. i. p. 366. The Journal notes: June 28th. Assembly at Grosvenor House. July 2nd, assembly at Lansdowne House.
The most characteristic qualities of S. as a thinker are his powers of generalisation and analysis. He left an autobiography, in which he subjects his own personality to analysis with singular detachment of mind. Life by David Duncan, LL.D., Life by A.J. Thompson. See also Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, Fishe , and books on S. and his philosophy by Hudson , White , and Macpherson .
In Florence even to-day evidences of its power are on every side, and the Guildhall in London attests its existence there. Moreover, the greatest artists belonged to the guilds, uniting themselves usually by work of the goldsmith, as Benvenuto Cellini so quaintly describes in his naïve autobiography. It was these same protective laws of the guilds that in the end crippled the hand of the weaver.
There were references, in Maurice's own account of himself, which the doctor called to mind with great interest after reading his brief autobiography. Some one person some young woman, it must be had produced a singular impression upon him since those earlier perilous experiences through which he had passed.
Regarding a third term, he says in his autobiography: "Should a President consent to be a candidate for a third election, I trust he would be rejected on this demonstration of ambitious views." Mr. Jefferson wrote in his autobiography regarding the Continental Congress in 1783: "Our body was little numerous, but very contentious. Day after day was wasted on the most unimportant questions.
No one so obscure nowadays but that he can have a book about him. Happy the land that can produce such subjects for the pen. But do not put your photograph at all ages into your autobiography. That may bring you to the ground. 'My Life; and what I have done with it'; that is the sort of title, but it is the photographs that give away what you have done with it.
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