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William Wilberforce
William Wilberforce (1759-1833)

politician, philanthropist, abolitionist

  • University of Cambridge, Pocklington School

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William Wilberforce
Journey to the Lake District from Cambridge, 1779
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians
A Practical View of Christianity (Hendrickson Christian Classics)
The speech of William Wilberforce, Esq., representative for the county of York, on Wednesday the 13th of May, 1789, on the question of the abolition of the slave trade
The correspondence of William Wilberforce
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes
A practical view of Christianity
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes, contrasted with real Christianity
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes, contrasted with real Christianity
An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in ..
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes, contrasted with real Christianity
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and ..
An appeal to the religion, justice, and humanity of the inhabitants of the British Empire
Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians in the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country Contrasted with Real Christianity
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Chrisitians, in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity
A Practical View
A Practical View of Preferred Christians
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians in the higher and middle classes in this country
Real Christianity (Essential Christian Library)
Practical view of prevailing religious system of professed Christians
The Correspondence of William Wilberforce
Real Christianity
Private papers of William Wilberforce
Real Christianity
An Appeal to the religion, justice, and humanity of the inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of the Negro slaves in the West Indies
Private papers of William Wilberforce
A letter on the abolition of the slave trade: addressed to the freeholders ..
An appeal to the religion, justice and humanity of the inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of the Negro slaves in the West Indies
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians in the higher and middle classes of this country contrasted with real Christianity
An Essay On The Treatment And Conversion Of African Slaves In The British Sugar Colonies
Substance of the speeches of William Wilberforce, esq. on the clause in the East-India
An appeal to the religion, justice, and humanity of the inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of the Negro slaves in the West Indies
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity
An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire
Slavery in the West Indies
Private papers
Real Christianity (Christian Classics)
The correspondence of William Wilberforce
365 Days With Wilberforce
Substance of the speeches of William Wilberforce, esq. on the clause in the East-India bill for promoting the religious instruction and moral improvement of the natives of the British dominions in India, on the 22d of June, and the 1st and 12th of July, 1813
An appeal to the religion, justice, and humanity of the inhabitants of the British empire
The speech of William Wilberforce ... on Wednesday the 13th of May, 1789
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians in the higher and middle classes of this country contrasted with real Christianity
Practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians ...
An appeal to the religion, justice, and humanity of the inhabitants of the British Empire
An appeal to the religion, justice and humanity of the inhabitants of the British Empire onbehalf of the negro slaves in the West Indies
The substance of the speech of William Wilberforce, Esq; at the county meeting, held at the castle of York, on the first of December, 1795
A letter on the abolition of the slave trade
Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies
Substance of the speeches of William Wilberforce on the clause in the East-India Bill for promoting the religious instruction and moral improvement of the natives of the British Dominions in India, on the 22nd of June, and the 1st and 12th of July, 1813
Christianismo Real/ Real Christianity
Private papers of William Wilberforce
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians in the higher and middle classes of society, contrasted with real Christianity
The speeches of Mr. Wilberforce, Lord Penrhyn, Mr. Burke ..
A letter on the abolition of the slave trade
The Debate on a Motion for the Abolition of the SlaveTrade in the House of Commons on Monday and Tuesday April 18 and 19 1791
An appeal to the religion, justice, and humanity of the inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of the Negro slaves in the West Indies
A letter to His Excellency the Prince of Talleyrand Perigord, on the subject of the slave trade
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes, contrasted with real Christianity
Real Christianity - Contrasted with the Prevailing Religious System
The correspondence of William Wilberforce
Family Prayers
Lettre à l'empereur Alexandre sur la traite des noirs
The duty and safety of immediate emancipation
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians
A Letter to William Wilberforce, Esq. M.P., Vice President of the African ...
Lettre à l'empereur Alexandre sur la traité des noirs
Lettre a Son Excellence monseigneur le prince de Talleyrand Périgord
Anti-negro Emancipation: An Appeal to Mr. Wilberforce
A vindication of the religious opinions of the higher classes in this country: in letters to W ...
A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and ...
An Address to William Wilberforce, Esq., M.P., with remarks on the results of his attempt to ameliorate the condition of Africans by the abolition of the slave trade, slavery, the servitude or actual condition of Negroes or those called slaves in Jamaica
The speech of William Wilberforce, Esq., representative for the county of York on Wednesday the 13th of May, 1789, on the question of the abolition of the slave trade
A letter to the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of Yorkshire
Lettre a son Excellence Monseigneur le Prince de Talleyrand Périgord, ministre et secrétaire d'état de S.M.T.C au département des affaires étrangeres, et son plénipotentiaire au Congrès de Vienne, au sujet de la traite des negres
Remarks on the American Colonization Society
Mr. Wilberforce's election
An appeal to the religion, justice, and humanity of the inhabitants of the British Empire. Wilberforce
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians in the higher and middle classes, contrasted with real Christianity
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians
A letter on the abolition of the slave trade
The speech of William Wilberforce, Esq. representative for the county of York
A practical view of the prevailing religious system
A Letter to Wm. Wilberforce, Esq., M.P
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians in the higher and middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity
A letter to His Excellency, the Prince of Talleyrand Perigord, &c., &c., &c
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians
The enormity of the slave-trade and the duty of seeking the moral and spiritual elevation of the colored race
Real Christianity
Résumé du discours prononcé par M. Wilberforce, dans la Chambre des communes, le 27 juin, 1822, sur l'état actuel de la traite des nègres
An appeal to the religion, justice, and humanity of the inhabitants of the British Empire in behalf of the Negro slave in the West Indies
A letter to his excellency the Prince of Talleyrand Perigord, &c., &c., &c., on the subject of the slave trade
The Slave trade
Lettre à l'empereur Alexandre sur la traite des noirs
A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians in the higher and middle classes in this country
A letter to his excellency the Prince of Talleyrand Perigord on the subject of the slave trade
Real Christianity
Nominal and real Christianity contrasted
William Wilberforce papers
Tony Blair
Tony Blair (born 1953)

politician, diplomat, autobiographer, lawyer

  • University of Oxford, Fettes College

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A Journey
A journey
A journey
A journey
A journey
A journey
A journey
Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes - The British Tradition
New Britain
The Blair necessities
Let us face the future--
The Courage of Our Convictions (Fabian Ideas)
TONY BLAIR IN HIS OWN WORDS; ED. BY PAUL RICHARDS
Socialism
Leading the Way
Iraq¬s Weapons of Mass Destruction
Hitchens vs Blair
The third way
Socialism
The third way
A New Statesman special selection from "New Britain: my vision of a young country"
Let us face the future
BATTLE FOR GLOBAL VALUES
Speech by the Prime Minister the Rt Hon Tony Blair MP
Labour means action on crime
There's more to business than you think
Faith and life in Britain
Speech by the Prime Minister at Ruas, Balmoral Showgrounds, Belfast, 14 May 1998
Speech by The Rt Hon Tony Blair, leader of the Labour Party
Road Ahead
Speech delivered by the Prime Minister at the Royal Ulster Agricultural show; 16 May 1997
The people's party
Remarks by the Prime Minister, the Right Honorable Tony Blair MP, on behalf of the UK and Irish Governments at a press conference with the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern TD, Hillsborough Castle, Co. Down, 1 April 1999
The broken guarantee
Speech by the Prime Minister at RUC Garnerville
Comprehensive schools
Edoardo Sanguineti
Edoardo Sanguineti (1930-2010)

poet, politician, translator, literary critic, playwright, critic

  • University of Turin

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Carol Rama
Genova per me
Ideologia e linguaggio
Atlante del Novecento italiano
Colloquio con Edoardo Sanguineti
Sanguineti/ Novecento
Faust
Sanguineti's song
Natural Stories # 1
Libretto
Il gatto lupesco
Natural stories #1
Cose
Libretto
Schede gramsciane
Sei personaggi.com
Corollario
L' amore delle tre melarance
Commedia dell'Inferno
Mikrokosmos
Sei personaggi.com
Wirrwarr
Il mio amore è come una febbre e mi rovescio
Per Edoardo Sanguineti
Il chierico organico
Capriccio italiano
Commedia dell'Inferno
Scribilli
La missione del critico
Senzatitolo
Poesia del Novecento
Sonetti della scuola siciliana
Bisbidis
Cose
Ritratto del Novecento
Guido Gozzano
Opere e introduzione critica
Catamerone
Triperuno
Lettura del Decameron
Le noble jeu de l'oye
Segnalibro
Il Canto XIX del Paradiso
Poesia italiana del Novecento
Stracciafoglio (1977-1979). Fuori catalogo (1957-1979)
Cultura e realtà
Tra liberty e crepuscolarismo
Il giuoco del Satyricon
Orlando furioso..
Gazzettini
Alberto Moravia
Storie naturali
Il realismo di Dante
Smorfie
Estudios sobre Moravia
Tre studi danteschi
Dante reazionario
K. e altre cose
Per musica
Ghirigori
Stracciafoglio
Giornalino, 1973-1975
Novissimum testamentum
Giornalino secondo 1976-1977
Il giuoco dell'oca
Verdi in technicolor
Postkarten, 1972-1977
Teatro
L' amore delle tre melarance
Poeti e poetiche del primo Novecento
Catamerone. 1951-1971
EdoardoSanguineti
Interpretazione di malebolge
Conversazioni musicali
La Valle d'Aosta
Antonio Davide
Capriccio italiano
Liguria
Liguria
Triperuno
Hugh MacDiarmid
Hugh MacDiarmid (1892-1978)

linguist, poet, politician, translator, journalist, literary critic, biographer

  • Edinburgh College of Art, Langholm Academy

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Lucky poet
Correspondence
Scottish eccentrics [by] Hugh MacDiarmid
A drunk man looks at the thistle
Poems
Northern numbers
Contemporary Scottish studies
Raucle Tongue
Aesthetics in Scotland
The Hugh MacDiarmid anthology: poems in Scots and English
Albyn
New selected letters
The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse
The thistle rises
The terrible crystal
Hugh Macdiarmid
Contemporary Scottish studies
The socialist poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Annals of the five senses and other stories, sketches, and plays
The revolutionary art of the future
Sangschaw
Selected essays of Hugh MacDiarmid
Second hymn to Lenin, and other poems
The Hugh MacDiarmid-George Ogilvie letters
The ugly birds without wings
The company I've kept
In memoriam James Joyce
Albyn: Shorter Books and Monographs (Lives & Letters: MacDiarmid 2000)
Three hymns to Lenin
More collected poems
Selected prose
Living Scottish poets
Lucky Poet (Lives & Letters: MacDiarmid 2000)
Raucle Tongue: Volume 2 (Lives & Letters: Macdiarmid 2000)
Hugh MacDiarmid Selected Poems
A Clyack-Sheaf
What's wrong with the "Songs of the Hebrides"
The complete poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Cornish heroic song for Valda Trevlyn and Once in a Cornish garden
Scots unbound and other poems
Sorabji symposium
Poems [of] Hugh MacDiarmid, and a pibroch on his 80th birthday
When an old man dies the commonest cliche of his obituarists is: "We will not see his like again"
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid [pseud.] (C. M. Grieve)
The future of Scots poetry
Glasgow 1960
Virgilium vidi tantum
Stony limits and Scots unbound
Neil Gun and Scottish renaissance
An afternoon with Hugh MacDiarmid
Miracle in Edinburgh
The correspondence between Hugh MacDiarmid and Sorley MacLean
Song of the seraphim
Lucky Poet
A lap of honour
The Oxford book of Scottish verse chosen by John MacQueen and Tom Scott
Hugh MacDiarmid and David Jones
Song of the seraphim
More collected poems
The islands of Scotland
A vision of Scotland
Scotland - vive la difference
Direadh I, II and III
On the asportation of the Scone stone
The great McGonagall
Second hymn to Lenin
John Knox
Exports of pottery from the United Kingdom, 1948-1968
David Hume
Metaphysics and poetry
Selected poems
The fire of the spirit
Poems to paintings by William Johnstone, 1933
Introduction [to an exhibition of the work of William McCance]
In the Shetland Islands
Poetry like the hawthorn
A political speech
The poetry of Norman MacCaig
Mayakovskii
Great malt whiskies
The man of (almost) independent mind
The significance of R.E. Muirhead
Sydney Goodsir Smith
The lucky bag
John Montague's Ulster
" And He gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul"
Cunninghame Graham
Tribute to Harry Miller
A lap of honour
The islands of Scotland: Hebrides, Orkneys, and Shetlands
Separatism
Scottish universal
The master-voyager of our age
Scottish arts and letters
Burns today and tomorrow
Cranks never make good democrats
A note on some foreign translations of Burns
The ugly birds without wings
When the birds come back to Rhiannon
Speaking for Scotland
Poetry like the hawthorn
To circumjack Cencrastus
Selected poems [of] Hugh MacDiarmid
Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
On a raised beach
Second hymn to Lenin, and other poems
The eemis stane
The breckanry
Two poems by Hugh MacDiarmid
Whuchulls
An apprentice angel
With the herring fishers
The battle continues
First hymn to Lenin, and other poems
ha-Barḳan ṿeha-gaviʻa
On a raised beach
The blaward and the skelly
Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid & Norman MacCaig
O wha's been here afore me, lass
At the sign of the thistle
In talk with Donnchadh bàn Mac an T'saoir
At my father's grave
Selected poems of Hugh Macdiarmid
First hymn to Lenin
When the rat-race is over
Edinburgh's smoky scene
Penny wheep
Selected poems
A kist of whistles
A herd of does
Six vituperative verses
Cornish heroic song for Valda Trevlyn
The MacDiarmids
To Circumjack Cencrastus; or, The curly snake
Selected poems
To those of my old school who fell in the Second World War
Selected lyrics
The fall of France
Contemporary Scottish studies
The uncanny Scot
The bonnie broukit bairn
The Age of MacDiarmid
David Hume
Speaking for Scotland
Hugh Macdiarmid, selected lyrics
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid
Collected poems
Direadh
O wha's been here afore me lass?
The kind of poetry I want
Stony limits and other poems
Vouchsafed, a sign
Aesthetics in Scotland
Annals of the five senses
Cornish Heroic Song to Valda Trevlyn
Five pieces of Miller
The uncanny Scot
Francis George Scott
Hugh MacDiarmid, reading in Scots and English, Thursday evening, May 4, 1967 at 8:30pm [at] The 92nd Street Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, New York City [with] introductory comments by M.L. Rosenthal and Norman MacCaig
Suijin azami o miru
Twenty poems by Hugh MacDiarmid with twenty lithographs by William Johnstone
Montrose
Francis George Scott
The MacDiarmids
Poems addressed to Hugh MacDiarmid, and presented to him on his seventy-fifth birthday by John M. Bett [and others]
Two memories
Second hymn to Lenin
Complete poems
Cunninghame Graham
The ministry of water
The burning passion
The Hugh MacDiarmid anthology
Collected poems of Hugh MacDiarmid (C. M. Grieve)
Poet at play, and other poems
Early lyrics by Hugh MacDiarmid
Selected essays of Hugh MacDiarmid
A lap of honour
Jan Terlouw
Jan Terlouw (born 1931)

physicist, politician, astrophysicist, nuclear physicist

  • Utrecht University

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Naar zeventien zetels en terug
How to become king
Winter In Wartime
Invierno En Tiempo de Guerra
Oorlogswinter
Oosterschelde windkracht 10
Carta En Clave, La
Voor alle kinderen
Barrotes de Bambu/ Bars of Bambu
Morgen brengen
Tony van Verre ontmoet Jan Terlouw
Eigen rechter
Tio Willibrord El - B.V.N
De kloof
Nu het nog kan
Barrotes de Bambu
Keuzen maken
Zoektocht in Katoren
De Derde Kamer
Pjotr
Piotr - B.V.R -
Oorlogswinter
Rey de Katoren, El
Kriegswinter
Gevangenis Meet Een Open Deur
Hoed u voor mensen die iets zeker weten
En broederschap?
Rí na Catóire
Peter the Deacon
Peter the Deacon (1106-1158)

librarian, politician, archivist, polygraph

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The Atina dossier of Peter the Deacon of Monte Cassino
De viris illustribus Casinensibus
Liber illustrium virorum archisterii Casinensis
Registrum Petri Diaconi
Giuseppe Fiori
Giuseppe Fiori (1923-2003)

journalist, politician

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Vita di Antonio Gramsci
Una storia italiana
Il venditore
Il cavaliere dei Rossomori
Casa Rosselli
Vita di Enrico Berlinguer
L'anarchico Schirru
Il cavaliere dei Rossomori
La Vie de Antonio Gramsci
Uomini ex
Antonio Gramsci
L' anarchico Schirru
Vita di Antonio Gramsci
Vita e morte di Michele Schirru
Sonetàula
La Società del malessere
Parole in TV
La Vie de Antonio Gramsci
Baroni in laguna ; La società del malessere
Gramsci, Togliatti, Stalin
Vita di Antonio Gramsci
Sonetàula
Antonio Gramsci
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941)

scout leader, politician, sculptor, military officer

  • Charterhouse School, Rose Hill School

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Playing the game
My adventures as a spy
Scouting for boys
Sport in war
Sports in war
Memories of India
The downfall of Prempeh
The Matabele Campaign, 1896: being a narrative of the campaign in suppressing the native rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland, 1896
Rovering to success
African adventures
The sport of rajahs
An old wolf's favorites
Young Knights of the Empire
Pigsticking
Indian memories
Aids to scouting for NCOs and men
Boy scouts beyond the seas
Aids to Scoutmastership
Paddle your own canoe
Quick training for war
Lessons from the Varsity of Life
Scoutmastership
Yarns for boy scouts, told round the camp fire
An old wolf's favourites, animals I have known
Girl guiding
No Title Exists
Adventures and Accidents
Boy Scouts of America
Scouting games
Life's Snags and How to Meet Them
Adventuring to Manhood
Scouting Round the World/With Pamphlet
The Canadian boy scout
Birds and beasts in Africa
What Scouts can do
Baden-Powell's Scouting for boys ; and, Baden-Powell's Aids to scoutmastership. Also, The Brownsea story
Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys
Scouting for girls, adapted from Girl guiding
The Wolf cub's handbook
À l'école de la vie
The founding of the Boy Scouts as seen through the letters of Lord Baden-Powell
The wonder book of soldiers for boys and girls
More sketches of Kenya
Scouting in war and peace
Lessons of a lifetime
Pigsticking; or, Hoghunting
Sketches in Mafeking and East Africa
The saving of Ireland
PLAYING THE GAME: A BADEN-POWELL COMPENDIUM; ED. BY MARIO SICA
B.-P.'s outlook
Scouting for boys in India
Pig-sticking or hog-hunting
Africké obrázky
Reconnaissance and scouting
Baden-Powell
Mes aventures comme espion