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Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee

Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee

by Jarena Lee

I was born February 11th, 1783, at Cape May, State of New Jersey. At the age of seven years I was parted from my parents, and went to live as a servant maid, with a Mr. Sharp, at the distance of about sixty miles from the place of my birth.My parents being wholly ignorant of the knowledge of God, had not therefore instructed me in any degree in thi..

Memories of My Life

Memories of My Life

by Sarah Bernhardt

My mother was fond of traveling: she would go from Spain to England, from London to Paris, from Paris to Berlin, and from there to Christiania; then she would come back, embrace me, and set out again for Holland, her native country. She used to send my nurse clothing for herself and cakes for me. To one of my aunts she would write: “Look after litt..

Life of Frances Power Cobbe

Life of Frances Power Cobbe

by Frances Power Cobbe

The story of the beautiful life which came to an end on the 5th of April, 1904, is told by Miss Cobbe herself in the following pages up to the close of 1898. Nothing is left for another pen but to sketch in the events of the few remaining years.But first a word or two as to the origin of the book. One spring day in 1891 or ’92, when Miss Cobbe was ..

Memories and Adventures

Memories and Adventures

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I have a little bundle of my father’s letters written in those days, full of appreciation of the kindness which he met with and full, also, of interesting observations on that Scottish society, rough, hard-drinking and kindly, into which he had been precipitated at a dangerously early age, especially for one with his artistic temperament. He had so..

Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story

Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story

by Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

The Hidatsas, called Minitaris by the Mandans, are a Siouan tribe and speak a language closely akin to that of the Crows. Wars with the Dakota Sioux forced them to ally themselves with the Mandans, whose culture they adopted. Lewis and Clark found the two tribes living in five villages at the mouth of the Knife river, in 1804.In 1832 the artist Cat..

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3

The Lives of Celebrated Travellers, Vol. 3

by James Augustus St. John

MUNGO PARK: This enterprising and distinguished traveller was born on the 10th of September, 1771, at Fowlshiels, a farm occupied by his father on the banks of the Yarrow, near Selkirk. In common with the greater number of the sons of Scottish yeomen, Mungo Park, notwithstanding that the number of his brothers and sisters amounted to no less than t..

John Greenleaf Whittier: A sketch of his life, with selected poems

John Greenleaf Whittier: A sketch of his life, with selected poems

by Bliss Perry

The loneliness of the homestead in which Whittier was born, on December 17, 1807, has been described by the poet himself and emphasized by his biographers. It is a solitary spot, even to-day. The farmhouse, built by the poet’s great-great-grandfather in 1688, has been preserved by the affectionate solicitude of the Whittier Homestead Association. A..

The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 4

The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 4

by Richard Newton

In sailing across the ocean, if we attempt to measure the depth of the water in different places, we shall find that it varies very much. There are hardly two places in which it is exactly the same. In some places it is easy enough to find the bottom. In others, it is necessary to lengthen the line greatly before it can be reached. And then there a..