The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, 8. köideJohn Clark Ridpath Globe publishing Company, 1898 |
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... educated at Pelham Priory , New Rochelle , N. Y. After study- ing at Cooper Union , New York , she was a teach- er of industrial design in the Normal College for girls , New York , 1878-79 . She was married , 1880 , to Lorin F. Deland ...
... educated at Pelham Priory , New Rochelle , N. Y. After study- ing at Cooper Union , New York , she was a teach- er of industrial design in the Normal College for girls , New York , 1878-79 . She was married , 1880 , to Lorin F. Deland ...
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... educated at the Napoleon Lyceum at Paris . He early showed a marked taste for poetry . Andrieux , to whom some of his pieces were shown , at first en- deavored to dissuade him from writing ; but on seeing his dithyramb On the Birth of ...
... educated at the Napoleon Lyceum at Paris . He early showed a marked taste for poetry . Andrieux , to whom some of his pieces were shown , at first en- deavored to dissuade him from writing ; but on seeing his dithyramb On the Birth of ...
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... educated in Paris , and became Professor of the Humanities at the College of Amiens . In 1769 he published a translation of the Georgics of Virgil , with which Voltaire was so well pleased that he recommended Delille to the French Acad ...
... educated in Paris , and became Professor of the Humanities at the College of Amiens . In 1769 he published a translation of the Georgics of Virgil , with which Voltaire was so well pleased that he recommended Delille to the French Acad ...
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... educated for the profession of a " rhetorician , " or , as we should say , an advocate . He labored under some great disadvantages for the exercise of this profession . His constitution was delicate ; his chest was weak ; and he had a ...
... educated for the profession of a " rhetorician , " or , as we should say , an advocate . He labored under some great disadvantages for the exercise of this profession . His constitution was delicate ; his chest was weak ; and he had a ...
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... educated never allude to -nay , blush if another so much as mentions it ? But those who , like you , are without it , make pretence to it , from sheer want of sense , till they sicken their hearers while they speak , without at all ...
... educated never allude to -nay , blush if another so much as mentions it ? But those who , like you , are without it , make pretence to it , from sheer want of sense , till they sicken their hearers while they speak , without at all ...
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