But as an autobiography of the beginnings and earlier maturities of life it's indeed finer and jollier than anything there is.
This autobiographyis valuable because it illustrates the events of a remarkable time.
Yet it is not impossible that autobiography of this sort has an effect the reverse of stimulating upon some people.
Some of his most notorious successes in that line have been narrated in works of biography or autobiography by other men.
In a work of autobiography that popular writer devotes the greater portion of his book to a narrative of his relations with the poet.
In what service this Caledonian swashbuckler earned his last distinction I forget, but the reader will find the details in an autobiography of the General entitled “Under Fourteen Flags.
Moby-Dick is, indeed, an autobiography of adventure; but adventure upon the highest plane of spiritual daring.
After his death in 1882, his son published an autobiography which Trollope had written some years before.
Painstaking and conscientious he may have been, but in his autobiography he shows no sign of it--on the contrary, he stresses quantity rather than quality.
He begins hisautobiography with: "I was born in St. Louis, Mo.
In his Autobiography of Seventy Years, Senator Hoar speaks of him as the only man of high character and great ability among the leaders of the Republican party, except President Grant, who retained the friendship of Roscoe Conkling.
In his autobiographyhe tells of walking bare-footed six miles through the snow to borrow a history of the French Revolution, and of reading it at night in the blaze of a pitch-pine knot.
So far as he has written it, it is intensely interesting and amusing, and well written in a free and chatty style; it will be the best autobiography of any actor yet published if he continues it in its present form.
Second Series; with a continuation of theAutobiography of the Author.
At the conclusion of the autobiography prefixed to his former series of Essays, published some years since, Mr Waterton announced that he then "put away the pen not to be used again except in self-defence.
It is a satisfying book, a model biography, or, rather, autobiography for dear Mrs. Stowe speaks all through it.
His autobiography is as instructive as it is repulsive.
The description also which Lauckhart gives of the emigrants in his autobiography may be examined.
The narrator is the Swiss Ulrich Braecker, the man of Toggenburg, whose autobiography has been often printed,[10] and it is one of the most instructive accounts that we possess of the life of the people.
Footnote 41: The following is taken from an autobiography which he left in manuscript for his children.
With anAutobiography of the Author, and Views of Walton Hall.
Autobiography and Diary of Mr. James Melville, minister of Kilrenny and Professor of Theology in the University of St. Andrews, ed.
The autobiography in which he has recorded his progress in knowledge is a remarkable composition, where the style flows like a brook of transparent water, without a ripple on its smooth surface.
In hisautobiography he says: "Being totally ignorant of the rules of grammar, I necessarily made many mistakes.
But such carping criticism, we repeat, would be altogether out of place; and this fragment of autobiography is really too amusing to excite any other feeling than that of regret at its sudden termination.
It is an autobiography in verse, a lyrical poem in quatrains without rhyme.
Mr Borrow will not permit us to know whether it is an autobiography or a pure romance.
THE TRUE STORY OF MY LIFE: an Autobiographyby ALICE M.
Wagner in his autobiography wrote: "One morning, when we had been anxiously consulting as to the possibility of raising our first quarter's rent, a carrier appeared with a parcel addressed to me from London.
A very interesting glimpse of her is to be found in "The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany.
The review of Miss Abbott's fictitious autobiography needs no further introduction, save the statement that the only parts of it that are based on fact are those which refer to the high esteem in which its subject--or shall I say its victim?
This autobiography of St. Ignatius is the groundwork of all the great lives of him that have been written.
Read the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, and you will find that he was as proud of the fact that he was a good printer and that he invented a new kind of stove as of anything else in his career.
I believe, in fact, that his autobiography came into my hands first.
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