The correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, bart. : with reminiscences of the most distinguished characters who have appeared in Great Britain, and in foreign countries, during the last fifty years. Illustrated by facsimiles of two hundred autographs ...

Errata slip tipped in.

Memoirs by a celebrated literary and political character : from the resignation of Sir Robert Walpole in 1742 to the establishment of Lord Chatham's second administration in 1757 : containing strictures on some of the most distinguished men of that time.

"An explanatory index of the principal names mentioned in the Memoir.": p. [155]-164.

The Eloquence of the British Senate; being a selection of the best speeches of the most distinguished English, Irish, and Scotch Parliamentary speakers, from the beginning of the reign of Charles I, to the present time. With notes, biographical, critical, and explanatory by William Hazlitt.

Mode of access: Internet.

Lives of illustrious and distinguished Irishmen, from the earliest times to the present period, arranged in chronological order, and embodying a history of Ireland in the lives of Irishmen.

Vol. 1-6 called also pt.1-12 on spine.

Memoirs of the house of Orleans; including sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished characters in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Mode of access: Internet.

The revolutionary Plutarch; exhibiting the most distinguished characters, literary, military and political, in the recent annals of the French Republic.

Also attributed to Lewis Goldsmith.

Papalism. A treatise on the claims of the papacy as set forth in the encyclical Satis Cognitum.

Appendix A: Epistola encyclica--Satis cognitum: p. 697-718.

Wind set-up and waves in shallow water.

Mode of access: Internet.

A proposed reference set of scenarios for radiatively active atmospheric constituents /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Imperial dictionary of universal biography: a series of original memoirs of distinguished men, of all ages and all nations.

vol. 1, pt. 1 has title: The Imperial... comprising a series of original memoirs of distinguished men...

Modern Methuselahs; or, Short biographical sketches of a few advanced nonagenarians or actual centenarians who were distinguished in art, science, literature, or philanthropy. Also, brief notices of some individuals remarkable chiefly for their longevity.

Introduction.--"Long-lasting."--St. Anthony the Great.-- Joannes Cantacuzenus, emperor of the East.--George Gemisthus Pletho.--Luigi Cornaro.--Titian.--Fontenelle.--Thomas Amory.--A group of far-advanced nonagenarians.--Eva Maria Garrick.--Caroline Lucretia Herschel.--Mary Somerville.--Sir Moses Montefiore.--Martin Joseph Routh.--Mr. Thoms' investigated case of centenarianism.--A group of unquestionable centenarians.--A few recent and probable cases of centenarianism.--Conclusion.

English spelling simplified, as recommemded by President Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, Brander Matthews, and other distinguished men. A history of the reformed spelling movement to date, including the 300 words adopted for immediate use in the government departments, together with 3,500 amended spellings, rules and other valuable information ...

Mode of access: Internet.

Lives of distinguished American naval officers /

Contiene: Vol. 1: Bainbridge. Somers. Shaw. Shubrick. Preble. (252 p.) -- Vol. 2: Jones. Woolsey. Perry. Dale.

Historical & literary memoirs and anecdotes, selected from the correspondence of Baron de Grimm and Diderot with the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, and many other distinguished persons, between the years of 1753 and 1790.

Translated by Robert Bland and Anne Plumptre.

The passing of Thomas : In the St. Peter's set ; At the grand hotel du paradis ; The fish of Monsieur Quissard ; Le bon oncle d'Amérique : fiver sotires /

Purchased from Gilman, Crompond, N.Y.