Chambers' Home Book, Or Pocket Miscellany: Containing a Choice Selection of Interesting and Instructive Reading for the Old and the Young. Vol. I, II, IV, V.William Chambers Gould and Lincoln, 1853 |
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... SHOES , AND OTHER MATTERS , THE DARIEN EXPEDITION , MADAME DE STAEL , 128 • 133 140 THE EARTHQUAKES OF MISSOURI , FOUCHE AND THE FRENCH POLICE , 149 . 154 OUR NEW ORGAN , 162 • THE YOUNG BAUCOLO , 174 CONTENTS VOL . V. - PART II . THE ...
... SHOES , AND OTHER MATTERS , THE DARIEN EXPEDITION , MADAME DE STAEL , 128 • 133 140 THE EARTHQUAKES OF MISSOURI , FOUCHE AND THE FRENCH POLICE , 149 . 154 OUR NEW ORGAN , 162 • THE YOUNG BAUCOLO , 174 CONTENTS VOL . V. - PART II . THE ...
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... MADAME DE STAËL . THIS celebrated woman , whose maiden name was Anna Louisa Germaine Necker , was born in Switzerland , in the year 1766 , and was the daughter of the Genevese banker , M. Necker , a man of distinguished parts , and ...
... MADAME DE STAËL . THIS celebrated woman , whose maiden name was Anna Louisa Germaine Necker , was born in Switzerland , in the year 1766 , and was the daughter of the Genevese banker , M. Necker , a man of distinguished parts , and ...
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... and obedience , great as they were , were totally unequal to the suppression of the passion for writing in his young daughter . Baron Grimm , in his memoirs , mentions that Mademoiselle Necker , at the age 141 MADAME DE STAEL .
... and obedience , great as they were , were totally unequal to the suppression of the passion for writing in his young daughter . Baron Grimm , in his memoirs , mentions that Mademoiselle Necker , at the age 141 MADAME DE STAEL .
Page 142
... Staël Holstein , ambassador from Sweden to France . This was not a marriage of affection ; and Madame Necker has been blamed for hurry- ing her daughter into a union with a man much older than herself , and when her ... MADAME DE STAEL .
... Staël Holstein , ambassador from Sweden to France . This was not a marriage of affection ; and Madame Necker has been blamed for hurry- ing her daughter into a union with a man much older than herself , and when her ... MADAME DE STAEL .
Page 143
... Madame de Staël beheld with grief the monarchy tottering to its fall . With a de- gree of courage that redounds to her honor , she issued , in the very ... Staël procured for Talleyrand the appointment of for- eign 143 MADAME DE STAEL .
... Madame de Staël beheld with grief the monarchy tottering to its fall . With a de- gree of courage that redounds to her honor , she issued , in the very ... Staël procured for Talleyrand the appointment of for- eign 143 MADAME DE STAEL .
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