“This volume attempts to relate the biography of Edmund Burke as a private person and a public character in an easily intelligible shape. The author’s aim has been to furnish a plain and popular biography, in which he trusts he has succeeded.”
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ELLISTON’S LIFE and ENTERPRISES. By George Raymond. Illustrated with Portrait and Engravings on steel, from designs by Phiz, Cruikshank, &c.
“This is a very entertaining memoir of one of the most gentlemanly, accomplished, and versatile actors who adorned the English stage. The life of R. W. Elliston, unlike that of the majority of his professional brethren, affords ample materials for a readable book, and this volume presents indubitable testimony in proof of that fact.”—Morning Post.
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EXTRAORDINARY MEN: their Boyhood and Early Youth. By William Russell, Esq. The Sixth Edition, illustrated with 50 Engravings of Portraits, Birthplaces, Incidents, &c. &c.
“What a title to interest the youth of this nation! It teaches in every page lessons of prudence, frugality, industry, and perseverance; and how difficulties, moral and physical, have been successfully overcome.”
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EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN: their Girlhood and Early Years. By William Russell, Esq. Illustrated with numerous Engravings designed and executed by Messrs. Dalziel.