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A self-written biography; the story of one's own life.

His Autobiography was published in 1850.

His autobiography was published a few years ago.

He wrote in his autobiography that he was impressed with her beauty.

In the Discourse of Method Descartes had sketched the main points in his new views, with a mental autobiography which might explain their origin, and with some suggestions of as to their applications.

Miss Keller's autobiography contains almost everything that she ever intended to publish.

The Autobiography of Ibn Khaldun was translated into French by de Slane in the Journal asiatique, ser.

In the Autobiography of Jahangir it is stated that the guru was imprisoned in the fortress of Gwalior, with a view to the realization of the fine imposed on his father Guru Arjan, but the Sikhs believe that the guru became a voluntary inmate of the fortress with the object of obtaining seclusion there to pray for the emperor who had been advised to that effect by his Hindu astrologers.

About this work he said little in the Autobiography, probably because his main concern there was to expound the influences that effected his moral and mental development.

He brought out in the Presse (1849) a series of Confidences, and somewhat later a kind of autobiography, entitled Raphael.

When writing her autobiography, Alice tried to highlight all of the milestones in her success.

George Sand, who was a firm believer in the doctrine of heredity, devotes a whole volume of her autobiography (Histoire de ma vie, 1857 seq.) to the elaboration of this strange pedigree.

He had in fact started his university course as a medicinae cultor, and in his autobiography he half regrets that he did not choose the medical profession.

His travels have been translated into many languages, and his Autobiography was written in English.

The latter became particularly attached to him, and really understood his character; and it is strange that his remarks upon Mirabeau in the fragment of autobiography which he left, and Mirabeau's letters to him, should have been neglected by French writers.

Have students write their autobiography telling about their family, their likes, their dislikes and school.

He chose this moment for publishing a Chapter of Autobiography, in which lie explained and justified his change of opinion with regard to the Irish Church.

London, 1816); Alexander Carlyle, Autobiography (Edinburgh, 1860), which gives the account of an eye-witness of the execution of Wilson; pamphlets (2 vols.

In the foregoing account only those particulars which bear directly on Villehardouin himself have been detailed; but the chronicle is as far as possible from being an autobiography, and the displays of the writer's personality, numerous as they are, are quite involuntary, and consist merely in his way of handling the subject, not in the references (as brief as his functions as chronicler will admit) to his own proceedings.

But it is to be remembered that Miss Keller has written many things in her autobiography for the fun of writing them, and the disillusion, which the writer of the editorial took seriously, is in great part humorous.

We may be hearing a lot more from Susan Boyle in the future, including a full-length album, autobiography, and a movie based on her life.

It consists of three books, an introduction and an autobiography.

In 1795 he visited England, one incident of his journey being the loss of all his private papers, including the materials for an autobiography, which were contained in a box stolen from off his postchaise in St Paul's Churchyard.

Her first album, Autobiography, was released in 2004 and debuted at number one on the charts- beating her sister Jessica right out of the gates.

While singing her third single from Autobiography, "La La", the entire stadium rose up in boos.

Outside of press reports and his nationally televised TV show, he recently released the autobiography "You Can Run But You Can't Hide."

These days Tweed spends more time writing (her autobiography, Kiss and Tell was published in 2006), running a fitness club and keeping the family's hectic schedule straight.

The show's title comes from the title of Denton's 2008 autobiography, which itself was a play on Salt-n-Pepa's mega 90s hit song, Let's Talk about Sex.

The HIV-AIDS connection was concealed from the public until his second wife allowed it to be revealed in the second edition of his autobiography, It's Been A Good Life, in 2002.

The religiosity of the Quakers, with their doctrines of the " inner light " and the influence of, the Spirit, has decided affinities with mysticism; and the autobiography of George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of the sect, proceeds throughout on the assumption of supernatural guidance.

The autobiography was used by both Dio Cassius and Marius Maximus.

The introduction is an elaborate treatise on the science of history and the development of society, and the autobiography contains the history, not only of the author himself, but of his family and of the dynasties which ruled in Fez, Tunis and Tlemcen during his lifetime.

An Autobiography was compiled by his widow and his private secretary from his diary, sermons, records and letters (1897-1900).

In a fragment of autobiography printed in the Athenaeum (12th of January 1850) he says that he was entirely self-taught, and attributes his poetic development to long country walks undertaken in search of wild flowers, and to a collection of books, including the works of Young, Barrow, Shenstone and Milton, bequeathed to his father by a poor clergyman.

He published his autobiography in 1894, concluding with a warm panegyric upon British rule in Egypt.

After the 1980s and her film career slowed, she wrote an autobiography and was treated for alcohol dependence at the famous Betty Ford Center.

Actress Mackenzie Phillips released her autobiography, High on Arrival.

Unfortunately, most of the ideas come from an autobiography written in 1918 by a performer named Armen Ohanian.

The memoir generally tells your story while reading like a novel and covers less time than an autobiography.

Chirolla has studied with Roy Eugene Davis since 1984, who learned his craft from Paramahansa Yogananda, author of Autobiography of a Yogi.

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, is considered to be one of the 100 best spiritual books of the 20th century.

From London he went to Paris, and he notes in his Autobiography that the Parisians were much more interested in his strange manner of travelling than in the travels themselves.

Fragments of his universal history (`Iaropia KaBoXLKi 7), from the time of the Assyrian empire to his own days, his autobiography, and his life of Augustus (Bios Kacaapos) have been preserved, chiefly in the extracts of Constantine Porphyrogenitus.

He published his autobiography in 1882 under the title Sache,' Leben and Feinde; the mention of "Feinde" (enemies) is characteristic. Diihring's philosophy claims to be emphatically the philosophy of reality.

This sentence from Browne's spiritual autobiography contains the root of the whole matter, and explains the title of his other chief work, also of 1582, A Treatise of Reformation without tarrying for any, and of the wickedness of those Preachers which will not reform till the Magistrate command or compel them.

Amongst his writings an autobiography, now lost, is referred to.

He was the author of La Follette's Autobiography (1913).

The Six Long Years The seventh extract from the naval autobiography of George John Sallet.

Airy's Autobiography, p. 127; Observatory, xiii.

His autobiography was published with the title Erinnerungen aus vergangenen Tagen (1889; 2nd ed., 1891).

In his Autobiography he alleges that he learned from the Provincial Letters of Pascal " to manage the weapon of grave and temperate irony, even on subjects of ecclesiastical solemnity."