item: #1 of 6 id: 16245 author: Staƫl, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) title: Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. date: None words: 74418 flesch: 56 summary: Some persons may perhaps be surprized at my comparing exile to death; but there have been great men, both in ancient and modern times, who have sunk under this punishment. It will be recollected that on being shown his tomb at Paris, he exclaimed, Great man! keywords: bonaparte; chapter; character; consul; country; day; days; emperor; europe; father; france; french; friends; general; good; government; having; house; idea; kind; liberty; life; long; man; manner; moment; mother; napoleon; nation; nature; opinion; order; paris; peace; people; persons; power; present; public; return; russia; russians; state; thing; time; world; years cache: 16245.txt plain text: 16245.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 16951 author: Edgeworth, Richard Lovell title: Richard Lovell Edgeworth: A Selection From His Memoirs date: None words: 36361 flesch: 62 summary: Mr. Edgeworth continues: 'I assured him that I had heard nothing but what he had told me when he was in France; that she had some disease in her eyes, and that it was feared she would lose her sight.' Mr. Edgeworth was, at first, benumbed by grief, and unable to take an interest in his former pursuits; but in the society of his wife's family he gradually recovered cheerfulness, and began to consider his wife's dying advice to marry her sister. keywords: arms; carriage; character; children; country; darwin; daughter; day; edgeworth; education; england; family; father; french; friend; good; house; ireland; irish; life; longford; lord; man; maria; men; mind; mrs; people; public; society; subject; thought; time; town; years cache: 16951.txt plain text: 16951.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 38091 author: James, William title: The Letters of William James, Vol. 2 date: None words: 125065 flesch: 75 summary: Agassiz, Mrs. Louis, her 80th birthday, =2=, 180 and _n._, 181; mentioned, =1=, 60, 65, 67. Barber, Francis, =1=, 5. Barber, Jannet, =1=, 4 _n._ Barber, John, =J.='s great-grandfather, in the Revolutionary army, =1=, 4 and _n._; H. James, Senior, on, 5. Barber, Mrs. John, =1=, 5. Barber, Patrick, =1=, 4 _n._ Barber family, the, =1=, 4, 5. Bashkirtseff, Marie, Diary of, =1=, 307, =2=, 148. Bastien-Lepage, Jules, =1=, 210 and _n._ Bay. keywords: = j.=; alice; american; believe; book; boston; cambridge; case; charles; chocorua; college; contents; country; course; day; days; dear; death; end; england; english; experience; fact; feel; flournoy; general; god; good; great; half; harvard; heart; henry; henry james; home; hope; house; human; james; john; june; lectures; letter; life; little; london; long; love; man; mean; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nauheim; new; night; past; people; philosophical; philosophy; place; point; present; professor; psychology; read; reading; real; sense; shall; sort; spite; state; subject; summer; things; thought; time; truth; university; war; way; week; wife; william; winter; wish; work; world; writing; year; york cache: 38091.txt plain text: 38091.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 40307 author: James, William title: The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 date: None words: 112482 flesch: 74 summary: The great number of _old_ men and women here has struck me very much. I confess I rather despair of any popular religion of a philosophic character; and I sometimes find myself wondering whether there can be any popular religion raised on the ruins of the old Christianity without the presence of that element which in the past has presided over the origin of all religions, namely, a belief in new _physical_ facts and possibilities. keywords: account; alice; american; book; boston; brother; cambridge; children; college; course; day; days; dear; english; fact; family; father; feeling; friend; german; good; half; hand; harry; harvard; henry james; home; hope; hours; house; human; james; kind; laboratory; letter; life; like; live; living; love; man; matter; men; mind; miss; months; morning; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; number; paris; past; people; philosophy; place; point; poor; present; professor; psychology; read; reading; rest; return; room; said; school; science; send; sense; sister; sort; state; street; study; subject; summer; talk; things; think; thought; time; view; way; week; wife; william; william james; winter; wish; words; work; world; writing; years; yesterday; young cache: 40307.txt plain text: 40307.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 51426 author: Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin) title: Henry D. Thoreau date: None words: 69860 flesch: 69 summary: It has made its way where your name has rarely been heard before, and the inquiry, 'Who is Mr. Thoreau?' proves that the book has in part done its work. I met him more than once in March, 1855, but he did not call on my sister and me until the 11th of April, when I made the following brief note of his appearance:-- To-night we had a call from Mr. Thoreau, who came at eight and stayed till ten. keywords: alcott; american; book; boston; brother; brown; channing; chapter; character; college; concord; day; days; dear; death; dunbar; emerson; england; family; farm; father; friend; god; good; greeley; hand; hawthorne; henry; henry thoreau; high; home; hosmer; house; john; john thoreau; lecture; letter; life; love; maine; man; march; men; mind; miss; mother; mrs; nature; new; place; poet; ripley; river; school; thoreau; thought; thy; time; town; verses; village; walden; way; webster; week; william; woods; world; years; young cache: 51426.txt plain text: 51426.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 7789 author: Moore, George title: Memoirs of My Dead Life date: None words: 100503 flesch: 75 summary: She once passed under the chestnut-trees of that dusty little _bal de banlieue_ with me by her side, proud of being with her. There were many little things which helped to pass the time away. keywords: art; beauty; black; blue; book; day; days; dear; death; dinner; doris; doubt; end; evening; eyes; face; french; gardens; girl; good; grey; hair; half; head; high; hotel; house; interest; left; letter; life; like; literature; london; look; love; lovers; man; marie; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; music; nature; night; orelay; paris; people; picture; place; play; poor; pretty; reader; room; round; saying; sky; story; talk; things; thinking; thought; time; train; trees; walk; way; white; woman; words; world; years cache: 7789.txt plain text: 7789.txt