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A useful sketch of recent biographies is to be found in The Edinburgh Review (July 1906).

He also wrote biographies of Frederick the Great and Frederick William IV.

Biographies are prefixed to most of the above editions.

Many of the most celebrated men of Europe visited him there, and large parts of his usual biographies are composed of extracts from their accounts of Ferney.

Baker, the writings of Livingstone, and the biographies of Gordon may be consulted, besides the many documents on these subjects published by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society.

For further information the reader should consult the Parentalia, published by Wren's grandson in 1750, an account of the Wren family and especially of Sir Christopher and his works; also the two biographies of Wren by Elmes and Miss Phillimore; Milman, Annals of St Paul's (1868); and Longman, Three Cathedrals dedicated to St Paul in London (1873), pp. 77 seq.

There are numerous older and uncritical biographies by members of the Society; best and earliest are De vita Francisca Xaverii.

John's other known work was a series of Biographies of Eastern Saints, compiled about 569.

Much information about Conway will also be found in the biographies of his leading contemporaries, Rockingham, Shelburne, Chatham, Pitt and Fox.

The dates (1762-1794) given in so many biographies of Desmoulins are certainly inaccurate.

The 13th section, or Spend Nask, which was mainly consecrated to the description of his life, has perished; while the biographies founded upon it in the 7th book of the Dinkard (9th century A.D.), the Shah-Nama, and the Zardusht-Nama (13th century), are thoroughly legendary - full of wonders, fabulous histories and miraculous deliverances.

In 1847 he wrote his biographies of Simon, Lord Lovat, and of Duncan Forbes, and in 1849 prepared for Chambers's Series manuals of political and social economy and of emigration.

We possess two lives of him - one by John of Asia in his collection of biographies, and another which may have been written by a priest of Jacob's original monastery of Pesilta.

These later historians had valuable help from the biographies of famous men and special histories of countries and cities, dynasties and princes, on which much labour was spent from the 4th century from the Flight onwards.

Fliigel has published Ibn Kotlubogha's Biographies of the Hanifite Jurists.

They form one series, and, besides valuable estimates of new books, include original dissertations, articles and biographies like our modern learned magazines.

The fashion of illustrated serials was introduced in the Semanario pintoresco espanol (1836-1857), noticeable for its biographies and descriptions of Spanish monuments.

Of the more modern biographies may be noted that in the Dict.

In all these biographies there is internal evidence of confusion; many of the incidents related are elsewhere told of other persons, and certain of them are quite irreconcilable with his character, so far as it can be judged of from his writings and from the opinions expressed of him by his contemporaries; we may safely reject, for instance, the legends that he set fire to the library of the Temple of Health at Cnidos, in order to destroy the evidence of plagiarism, and that he refused to visit Persia at the request of Artaxerxes Longimanus, during a pestilential epidemic, on the ground that he would in so doing be assisting an enemy.

He also wrote at Bethlehem De viris illustribus sive de scriptoribus ecclesiasticas, a church history in biographies, ending with the life of the author; De nominibus Hebraicis, compiled from Philo and Origen; and De situ et nominibus locorum Hebraicorum.'

See the biographies by Plutarch and Nepos; Xen.

The earlier biographies of Garrick are by Arthur Murphy (2 vols., 1801) and by the bookseller Tom Davies (2 vols., 4th ed., 1805), the latter a work of some merit, but occasionally inaccurate and confused as to dates; and a searching if not altogether sympathetic survey of his verses is furnished by Joseph Knight's valuable Life (1894).

Lastly, the work of Celestin Port, Dictionnaire historique, geographique et biographique de Maine-etLoire (3 vols., Paris and Angers, 1874-1878), and its small volume of Preliminaires (including a summary of the history of Anjou), contain, in addition to the biographies of the chief counts of Anjou, a mass of information concerning everything connected with Angevin history.

The biographies and special national histories are like paper money.

Claudia introduced the men, reading from printed biographies.

The influence of Muirchu's work can be traced in all later biographies.

His biography was written by his son Karl Wilhelm Bottiger (1790-1862), for some time professor of history at Erlangen, and author of several valuable histories (History of Germany, History of Saxony, History of Bavaria, Universal History of Biographies).

During this period he published his poetical satire called Metamorphosis (1726), his Epistolae ad virum perillustrem (1727), his Description of Denmark and Norway (1729), History of Denmark, Universal Church History, Biographies of Famous Men, Moral Reflections, Description of Bergen (1737), A History of the Jews, and other learned and laborious compilations.

Darboy (Paris, 1888), biographies written from the clerical standpoint, which have called forth a number of pamphlets in reply.

In 1851 he brought out a life of Count Yorck von Wartenburg (Berlin, 1851-1852, and many later editions), one of the best biographies in the German language, and then began his great work on the Geschichte der preussischen Politik (Berlin, 1855-1886).

R.) The fortunes of the Bonaparte family may be further followed under the later biographies of its leading members, mainly descendants of Lucien (II.

He wrote full biographies of two chroniclers of Louis XI., one very obscure, Jean Castel (in the Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Charles, 1840), the other, Thomas Basin, bishop of Lisieux, who was, on the contrary, a remarkable politician, prelate and chronicler.

The scanty details of Asser's life are taken from his biography of Alfred, from which it is inferred that he was acquainted with one or two Frankish biographies, and possibly had visited the continent of Europe.

Of the many historians of the middle ages, besides the authors of biographies, chronicles, cloister annals, &c., may be mentioned Haymo, Anastasius, Adam of Bremen, Ordericus Vitalis, Honorius of Autun, Otto of Freising, Vincent of Beauvais and Antoninus of Florence.

For works relating to the Sobieskian, Saxon and Partitional periods of Polish history, the reader is referred to the bibliographical notes appended to the biographies of John III., king of Poland, Michal Czartoryski, Stanislaus II., Tadeusz Andrzej Kosciuszko, Jozef Poniatowski, and the other chief actors of these periods.

For biographies, memoirs and general works, see the lists appended to the various biographical articles and to the articles UNITED STATES and CONFEDERATE STATES.

Next come the biographies of the succeeding Norwegian kings, the most detailed being those of the two missionary kings Olaf Tryggvason and St Olaf.

Snorri's sources were partly succinct histories of the realm, as the chronological sketch of Ari; partly more voluminous early collections of traditions, as the Noregs Konungatal (Fagrskinna) and the Jarlasaga; partly legendary biographies of the two Olafs; and, in addition to these, studies and collections which he himself made during his journeys in Norway.

Among a large number of biographies published previously, that by Washington Wilks (1854) has some merit.

Roper's Life is the source of all the many subsequent biographies.

He wrote the biographies of a number of German scholars of the 16th century, mostly theologians, which were published in Heidelberg and Frankfort (5 vols., 1615-1620).

His industry as a biographer is commended by P. Bayle, who acknowledges his obligations to Adam's labours; and his biographies, though they have faults, are still useful.

The main merit of his account of ancient art, the only classical work of its kind, is that it is a compilation ultimately founded on the lost textbooks of Xenocrates and on the biographies of Duris and Antigonus.

The biographies and letters contained in the 7 vols.

The biographies of all the famous men who were enrolled in this academy must be sought in the pages of Didot's Alde Manuce.

Many biographies have appeared.

The biographies we possess do not tell us where or when this great change of interest occurred.

Something is learned, too, from biographies written by the monks, of which Einhards Vita Karoli Magni is the greatest and the best, and Wipos life of the emperor Conrad II.

Some are so sober and realistic as to make it doubtful whether they are not true biographies and narratives of actual events.

See also the special bibliographies appended to the biographies of the Danish kings and statesmen.

Among the numerous less authoritative biographies may be mentioned Ivan Golovin, Histoire d'Alexandre I.

The prose framework is in this case preserved only in the commentary, which also gives biographies of the authors.

The larger comprehensive histories of the United States by Bancroft, Hildreth, Winsor, McMaster, Von Holst, Schouler and Avery, the biographies in the "American Statesmen" series, and Hart's "American Natioh" series, are indispensable.

Both these stories appear to belong to a biography of Isaiah, and, like the similar biographies of Elijah and Elisha, are open to the suspicion that historical facts have been subordinated to idealize the work of the prophet.

The Vitae patrum consists of twenty biographies of bishops, abbots and hermits belonging to Gaul.

The curses pronounced against him may be read in most of the biographies.

But among the many express biographies two especially should be consulted - those by Thomas McCrie (Edinburgh, 1811; revised and enlarged in 1813, the later editions containing valuable notes by the author); and by P. Hume Brown (Edinburgh, 1895).

He wrote a chronicle of the monastery and several biographies - the life of Gerhard Groot, of Florentius Radewyn, of a Flemish lady St Louise, of Groot's original disciples; a number of tracts on the monastic life - The Monk's Alphabet, The Discipline of Cloisters, A Dialogue of Novices, The Life of the Good Monk, The Monk's Epitaph, Sermons to Novices, Sermons to Monks, The Solitary Life, On Silence, On Poverty, Humility and Patience; two tracts for young people - A Manual of Doctrine for the Young, and A Manual for Children; and books for edification - On True Compunction, The Garden of Roses, The Valley of Lilies, The Consolation of the Poor and the Sick, The Faithful Dispenser, The Soul's Soliloquy, The Hospital of the Poor.

His very biographies are colourless.

He wrote, besides, biographies, catechisms and hymnals for children, manuals of religious verse, lectures and essays on Dante, &c.

Its title was Imagines, and it consisted of 700 prose biographies of Greek and Roman celebrities, with a metrical elogium for each, accompanied in each case by a portrait.

Amongst them may be mentioned a history of the dispute with Palamas; biographies of his uncle and early instructor John, metropolitan of Heraclea, and of the martyr Codratus of Antioch; funeral orations for Theodore Metochita, and the two emperors Andronicus; commentaries on the wanderings of Odysseus and on Synesius's treatise on dreams; tracts on orthography and on words of doubtful meaning; a philosophical dialogue called Florentius or Concerning Wisdom; astronomical treatises on the date of Easter and the preparation of the astrolabe; and an extensive correspondence.

One of the historians of the brotherhood, Wenceslas Bfezan, wrote a History of the House of Rosenberg, of which only the biographies of William and Peter of Rosenberg have been preserved.

He also published biographies of Reis, Faraday and Kelvin.

There have been numerous biographies, the chief is Mrs Hookham's Life of Margaret of Anjou (1872).

The noble style of his biographies and orations has earned for him the title of the Swedish Tacitus.

On historical subjects the most considerable are Rerum memorandarum libri, a miscellany from a student's commonplace-book, and De viris illustribus, an epitome of the biographies of Roman worthies.

De Sade's Life of the poet (Amsterdam, 1764-1767) marks an epoch in the history of his numerous biographies; but this is in many important points untrustworthy, and it has been superseded by Gustav Koerting's exhaustive volume on Petrarcas Leben and Werke (Leipzig, 1878).

The importance to us of this uncritical collection of biographies is sufficient comment on the decline of history-writing in the latter empire.

Justin M`Carthy, amongst other works, wrote biographies of Sir Robert Peel (1891), Pope Leo XIII.

Ghica and Lascar Catargiu (whose biographies are given under separate headings) received their political training abroad, and returned to educate their countrymen.

Notwithstanding this domestic felicity, an impression is left on the reader of Corneille's biographies that he was by no means a happy man.

Marius Maximus, who lived about 165-230, wrote biographies of the emperors, in continuation of those of Suetonius, from Nerva to Elagabalus; Junius Cordus dealt with the less-known emperors, perhaps down to Maximus and Balbinus.

Even their trivialities have their use; their endless anecdotes respecting the personal habits of the subjects of their biographies, if valueless to the historian, are most acceptable to the archaeologist, and not unimportant to the economist and moralist.

Jameson have been sufficiently indicated (see also their separate biographies).

Of political biographies there is no end.

He also wrote biographies of Sir Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley for Knight's British Worthies, various notices of scientific men for the [[Gallery]] of Portraits, and for the uncompleted Biographical Dictionary of the Useful Knowledge Society, and at least seven articles in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography.

By Max Muller especially it was employed as a convenient short term for the whole body of languages more commonly known as IndoEuropean or Indo-Germanic. In the same way Max Muller used Aryas as a general term for the speakers of such languages, as in his book published in 1888, Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas.

There are also miscellaneous writings of Locke first published in the biographies of Lord King (1830) and of Mr Fox Bourne (1876).

For the leading figures in the Revolution see their biographies under separate headings.

The complex work now known as Orkneyinga is made up of the Earls' Saga, lives of the first great earls, Turf-Einar, Thorfinn, &c.; the Life of St Magnus, founded partly on Abbot Robert's Latin life of him (c. 1150) an Orkney work, partly on Norse or Icelandic biographies; a Mirade-book of the same saint; the Lives of Earl Rognwald and Sveyn, the last of the vikings, and a few episodes such as the Burning of Bishop Adam.

These biographies are more literary and medieval and less poetic than the Icelandic sagas and king's lives; their simplicity, truth, realism and purity of style are the same.

He wrote Hungrvaka, lives of the first five bishops of Skalholt, and biographies of his patron Bishop Paul (Peilssaga) and also of St Thorlak (Thorlakssaga).

The only noteworthy literary productions of this first period of Servian literature were zhivoti (biographies) and letopisi (chronicles).

Biographies appeared soon after her death by the Jesuit Ribera, who had been her confessor (1602), and by Diego de Yepez, confessor to Philip II.

Prantl, Geschichte der Logik (Leipzig, 1861); and the Histories of Philosophy; also the literature under the biographies of philosophers mentioned.

There are many confraternities established in his honour throughout Christendom, and the number of "pious" biographies devoted to him would fill many volumes.

Of modern biographies the best are those of de Broglie (2 vols., 1888) and Baumer (1892) - the former to be especially recommended.

Victorians published lots of biographies of Jesus which sought to explain the passion narratives in a rational way.

It provides video, stills, posters, production designs, biographies of leading figures and also much contextual analysis.

Short biographies of past inductees are featured and the botanical gardens are covered extensively, including the commissioned statues of famous players.

But really instances of this kind are innumerable, and are often narrated in biographies.

There are also primary documents, biographies, interactive maps and an examination of how the media covered the war.

Topics include discoveries of the transuranic elements, the actinide hypothesis, medical radioisotopes, the development of nuclear fission and extensive biographies.

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Besides the works, properly so called, there is a considerable amount of traditional matter - anecdotes, sayings, sermons - preserved in the biographies and in the Fioretti; 1 a great deal of this matter is no doubt substantially authentic, but it is not possible to subject it to any critical sifting.

While in Malacca Xavier met one Yajiro, a Japanese exile (known to the biographies as Anger, Angero car Anjiro), who fired him with zeal for the conversion of Japan.

These were a Castilian translation of The Life of Christ by Ludolphus of Saxony, and the popular Flowers of the Saints, a series of pious biographies.

It proved a congenial task, and led to the writing of his Personal Memoirs, a frank, modest and charming book, which ranks among the best standard military biographies.

Among less reputed biographies or materials for biography may be mentioned a second Zafarnama, by Maulana Nizamu 'd-Din Shanab Ghazani (Nizam Shami), stated to be "the earliest known history of Timur, and the only one written in his lifetime"; and vol.

Snorri is the author of the great prose Edda (see Edda), and of the Heimskringla or Sagas of the Norwegian Kings, a connected series of biographies of the kings of Norway down to Sverri in 1177.

All earlier biographies were superseded by Theophile Lavallee's Histoire de St Cyr, reviewed in Causeries du lundi, vol.

As his brilliant biographies demonstrate he had extraordinary insight and a naturally unprejudiced mind.

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Jeff's favorite type of nonfiction books are biographies about historical figures.

From simple alphabet books to biographies of historical figures, there is something available for nearly every young reader.

The selection includes biographies, mysteries, ghost stories, books about animals, and several classic fairy tales.

Favorite genres include sports, biographies, history, science, space, fact books, and encyclopedic volumes on certain topics, but you should always search with a clear idea of a child's primary interests in mind.

Biographies of musicians, books about video games or comics, craft guides, and other titles all have their place on the shelves and tend to sell quite well during their peak of interest.

Twain's publishing house was a financial disaster with failed ill-conceived biographies.

There are over 7,000 scientific topics on the site, including over 2,000 biographies of notable scientists.

You can obtain all kinds of knowledge on novels, poetry, non-fiction pieces about writing and biographies as well as download eBooks for various eReaders based on the Harvard Classics & Shelf of Fiction.

The series features bizarre and satirical tellings of the biographies of some of the most popular soft rock bands of the 1970s, focusing especially on Doobie Brothers front man Michael MacDonald and Kenny Loggins.

An article published by PopPhoto.com in March/April of 2007 offers readers a list and brief biographies of the world's top 10 wedding photographers as well as links to their websites.

This is confirmed by fan sightings, biographies, and Hasselfhoff's own claims in interviews.

Their celeb pages contain news stories and biographies, and there are also photo galleries of each star.

You can find the biographies of each artist represented by this gallery, and the jewelry pieces are cataloged according to style, such as pendants, bracelets, earrings, rings, necklaces, and watches.

You can also see a list of all athletes participating in the games as well as their biographies.

The site also features biographies, Civil War records and files, family histories, church records, cemetery records and tombstone photos, obituaries, resource links, marriage records, mission records, California maps, and much more.

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GeneaBios, a free online genealogy biography database, offers a free membership to search thousands of biographies of other people and possibly find information about your family tree.

Biographies will introduce your child to important people in history.

There are many wonderful docu-dramas, documentaries and biographies that are available on video and DVD as well as being offered regularly on both the History and Discovery channels.

These are interesting biographies and even historical fiction that help the student understand not only the events of history but the people whose lives were impacted by those events.

You can see full biographies of the hamsters on the Zhu Zhu Pets website.

These films range from classics to biographies and documentaries.

All My Children Official Site - The official site contains news, features, actor biographies and sneak peeks of upcoming episodes.

Days of Our Lives Soap Central also features a section dedicated to actor biographies and birthdays.

Cast biographies are updated with current and past projects.

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Official All My Children Site - ABC's official All My Children website is packed with actor biographies, news, scoops, videos and even options to buy items, clothing and jewelry seen on the show.

From full episodes of the program and character biographies to weekly and month-by month summaries dating back to 1960, there is no dearth of information available on all things Corrie.

In addition to character breakdowns, actor biographies, press releases and general program information, these sites also offer episode guides.

Character and actor biographies are both available.

You can also read biographies of the entire cast and even contact select actors via their agents through the provided addresses.

Network soap operas often have an official site that features everything from character to actor biographies, upcoming teasers, full episodes in streaming and even family trees.

Reading biographies of famous entrepreneurs can be inspiring.

Whether you aspire to become an entrepreneur or you're in the midst of running a young company, reading biographies of famous entrepreneurs can be inspiring and educational.

The lives by Hamon (1856) and Perennes (1860), without adding much to preceding biographies, are serious and edifying.

If the whole activity of the leaders serves as the expression of the people's will, as some historians suppose, then all the details of the court scandals contained in the biographies of a Napoleon or a Catherine serve to express the life of the nation, which is evident nonsense; but if it is only some particular side of the activity of an historical leader which serves to express the people's life, as other so-called "philosophical" historians believe, then to determine which side of the activity of a leader expresses the nation's life, we have first of all to know in what the nation's life consists.

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Black lingerie models are a valuable part of the industry, but some people aren't familiar with their names or biographies.

Show times, clips from the show, and biographies for the contestants and cast are all available in addition to message boards where viewers can express their opinions about the show - whether they are good or bad.

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