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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Book List in Order: 21 titles
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The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
- Aug-1961
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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.I WAS JUST going to say, when I was interrupted, that one of the many ways of classifying minds is under the heads of arithmetical and algebraical intellects. All economical and practical wisdom is an exten...
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Common Law
- Jan-1964
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The Common Law, published in 1881, was based on a series of lectures addressed to a lay audience in Boston by the most respected (then and now) of all American jurists, Oliver Wendell Holmes. Avoiding specialized language of his own or any other era,...
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Dorothy Q
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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Elsie Venner
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.This tale was published in successive parts in the Atlantic Monthly, under the name of The Professor's Story, the first number having appeared in the third week of December, 1859. The critic who is curious ...
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Grandmother's Story
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor p...
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The Guardian Angel
Holmes' belief that hereditary aspects play a vital role in man's personality has been amazingly depicted here. Not only the physical aspects but the character traits are also pre-determined, and shape a man's destiny. In an engaging manner, the char...
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Medical Essays, 1842-1882
The character of the opposition which some of these papers have met with suggests the inference that they contain really important, but unwelcome truths. Negatives multiplied into each other change their sign and become positives. Hostile criticisms ...
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A Mortal Antipathy
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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Our Hundred Days in Europe
I propose taking a second look at some parts of Europe. It is a Rip Van Winkle experiment which I am promising myself. The changes wrought by half a century in the countries I visited amount almost to a transformation. I left the England of William t...
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The Professor At The Breakfast Table
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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The Psychiatric Novels of Oliver Wendell Holmes
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...
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The Works Of Oliver Wendell Holmes
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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Dr. Holmes's Boston
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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John Lothrop Motley, a Memoir
" ...] Volume I. I. 1814-1827. To AEt. 13. BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS. John Motley, the great-grandfather of the subject of this Memoir, came in the earlier part of the last century from Belfast in Ireland to Falmouth, now Portland, in the District, now t...
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The One Hoss Shay
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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Over The Teacups
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The kind way in which this series of papers has been received has been a pleasure greater than I dared to anticipate. I felt that I was a late comer in the midst of a crowd of ardent and eager candidates fo...
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The Path of the Law
When we study law we are not studying a mystery but a well-known profession. We are studying what we shall want in order to appear before judges, or to advise people in such a way as to keep them out of court. The reason why it is a profession, why p...
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The Poet at the Breakfast Table
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I have the feeling that every man's biography is at his own expense. He furnishes not only the facts, but the report. I mean that all biography is autobiography. It is only what he tells of himself that comes to be known and believed." So writes the...
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