Category: Biographies
That was an admirable idea of De Quincey's, formally to postulate any startling theory upon which he desired to build an argument or a story, and to insist that his readers should regard the postulate as proved, on pain of losing altogether what he had to say. The plan is a ve...
The history of the Confederacy, when it shall be fully and fairly written, will appear the story of a dream to those who shall read it, and there are parts of it at least which...
9. CHAPTER IX.It is impossible to say precisely when the conviction became general in the South that we were to be beaten. I cannot even decide at what time I myself began to think the cause...
4. CHAPTER IV.It seems a remarkable fact that during the late Congressional travail with the currency question, no one of the people in or out of Congress, who were concerned lest there shoul...
6. CHAPTER VI.The story goes that when Napoleon thanked a private one day for some small service, giving him the complimentary title of "captain," the soldier replied with the question, "In w...
5. CHAPTER V.The queer people who devote their energies to the collection of autographs have a habit, as everybody whose name has been three times in print must have discovered, of solicitin...
1. CHAPTER I.That was an admirable idea of De Quincey's, formally to postulate any startling theory upon which he desired to build an argument or a story, and to insist that his readers shou...
2. CHAPTER IIA newspaper correspondent has told us that the great leader of the German armies, Count Von Moltke, has never read anything--even a history--of our war, and that when questioned...
7. CHAPTER VII.Generals would be of small worth, indeed, if there were no lesser folk than they in service, and the interesting people one meets in an army do not all wear sashes, by any means...
3. CHAPTER III.During the latter part of the year in which the war between the States came to an end, a Southern comic writer, in a letter addressed to Artemus Ward, summed up the political ou...