In the Memoirs of the Private Life of Marie Antoinette by her principal lady in waiting, Madame de Campan, we read that the queen tormented Louis XVI.
These memoirsare the work of a man whose open and active mind, of incredible activity indeed, plans, constructs, invents without cessation or repose.
We have already seen the Memoirs of Sir William Temple[319] published in the same character and volume with the history of Tom Thumb, and the works of our greatest poets shrunk into penny books and garlands.
Mr. Thomas Charlton in the "Memoirs of Gamesters," &c.
Be pleased therefore to let the following memoirs have a place in their history.
As for politicians, they do not abound with that species of men so much as we; but as ours are not so famous for writing as for extemporary dissertations in coffee-houses, they are more annoyed with memoirs of this nature also than we are.
From the Memoirs so often quoted, we learn nothing beyond the obvious facts, that the marriage was undertaken in compliance with urgent entreaties of the Duchess mother and of the people of Urbino, and that the bride was his own choice.
We thank Mr. Stirling for one of the most interesting memoirs of recent years.
That the object of Clement's visit had been faithfully construed by the general voice seems more than probable from the document we are about to quote; but upon this point the Memoirs throw no light.
Such is all that we learn from the Memoirs of Francesco Maria regarding one of the most eventful moments of his life.
A quarto volume has been called forth by the detraction, and this supplement to Barotti's Memoirs of the illustrious Ferarrese, has been considered a triumphant reply to the "Quadro Storico Statistico dell' Alta Italia.
Orlando of Ariosto once every year" (see Memoirs of the Life, etc.
Creasy's Memoirs of Eminent Etonians~; with Notices of the Early History of Eton College.
Lewis (Jenkin), hisMemoirs of the Duke of Gloucester, its editor, 542.
I have read no other such book with so unflagging interest and content as these memoirs of Harris Newmark.
Not until the publication, years later, of the Personal Memoirs of General W.
Third Edition, revised throughout and completed; with nearly Four Hundred Memoirs and Notices of Persons recently deceased.
There have also been isolated memoirs published by Roumanians, but, so far as we could ascertain, no systematic work is extant.
On the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of the prophets are read.
The apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called gospels," i.
Bismarck's secretary, Busch, tells us in his memoirs that it was thought to summon a congress of Princes on the 11th of October, and that it was hoped that the King of Bavaria would be present.
Frau Louise von Kobell, from whose memoirs I have taken these details.
Is it true," said he, "that you are the author of the Memoirs on Administration and Politics, which much struck me?
He was a bad man: Linguet's Memoirs had just shown him up in a sad light and he was hated almost as much as the jail.
A visit there was like living a chapter in a book ofmemoirs and reminiscences.
Some time ago I read the "Memoirs of Claude," who was the head of police in Paris during my time, and I was quite startled to find how many of the notorieties chronicled in his experiences had been known to me personally.
Memoirs of Elizabeth Berkeley, Margravine of Anspach," i.
She possessed a small but excellent library, containing some four hundred volumes, dramatic literature and memoirs and historical works predominating.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "memoirs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
