{ bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654152' }}, See Memoir and Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington (Boston, 1906), by Arria S. 3 Nehemiah's attitude towards intermarriage is markedly moderate in contrast to the drastic measures of Ezra, whose mission and work the simpler and perhaps earlier narratives of Nehemiah originally ignored, and the relation between the two is complicated further by the literary character of the memoir of Ezra. }, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, In a moving memoir, she tells of her long struggle to overcome the ' black dog ' . bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776142', position: 'btf' }}, . The use of memoirs to reflect on the meaning of historical experience was a challenge to prevailing modes of historical writing. Matheson of Bluntschli's Theory of the State (1885); many articles in Mind, Philosophical Review, &c. His Philosophical Studies was edited with a memoir by R. This curious and interesting plan has been made the subject of a memoir both by Keller (Zurich, 1844) and by Professor Robert Willis (Arch. Richard Benson's acclaimed memoir, The Farm, will be discussed on the show on Wednesday 1st February. "sign-in": "https://dictionary.cambridge.org/auth/signin?rid=READER_ID", { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195466', size: [728, 90] }}, var pbAdUnits = getPrebidSlots(curResolution); bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162050', zoneId: '776358', position: 'atf' }}, iasLog("exclusion label : wprod"); Corallium rubrum has been the subject of a beautifully-illustrated memoir by de Lacaze-Duthiers, which should be consulted for details of anatomy. His chief publications are his translation of the History of Herodotus (in collaboration with Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir Gardner Wilkinson), 1858-60; The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, 1862-67; The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy (Parthian), 1873; The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy (Sassanian), 1875; Manual of Ancient History, 1869; Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament, 1871; The Origin of Nations, 1877; History of Ancient Egypt, 1881; Egypt and Babylon, 1885; History of Phoenicia, 1889; Parthia, 1893; Memoir of Major-General Sir H. A Memoir of Henry Sidgwick, written by his brother with the collaboration of his widow, was published in 1906. var mapping_topslot_b = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([746, 0], [[728, 90]]).addSize([0, 0], []).build(); { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, Meanwhile, Leverrier, on the 10th of November 1845, presented to the French Academy a memoir on Uranus, showing that the existing theory failed to account for its motion. For his third memoir on property, which took the shape of a letter to the Fourierist, M. Laplace developed a theorem of Vandermonde for the expansion of a determinant, and in 1773 Joseph Louis Lagrange, in his memoir on Pyramids, used determinants of the third order, and proved that the square of a determinant was also a determinant. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, we have a memoir On the Attraction of Homogeneous Ellipsoids, and the already mentioned memoir Allgemeine LehrsÃtze, on the theory of forces attracting according to the inverse square of the distance. He published many scientific monographs, including a memoir on the formation of a deaf variety in the human race. { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a9690ab01717182962182bb50ce0007', pos: 'cdo_mpuslot_mobile_flex' }}, {code: 'ad_topslot_a', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_topslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/topslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250]] } }, { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_mpuslot4' }}]}]; googletag.pubads().addEventListener('slotRenderEnded', function(event) { if (!event.isEmpty && event.slot.renderCallback) { event.slot.renderCallback(event); } }); { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a969411017171829a5c82bb4deb000b', pos: 'cdo_leftslot_160x600' }}, Language learning memoirs as a gendered genre. She is a contributing writer for the Huffington Post, and her memoir (Kimorir) All I Can Handle is scheduled for publication in 2010. { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971071', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, Finally, you can observe these memoir samples to know how to write one yourself. var mapping_houseslot_a = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([963, 0], [300, 250]).addSize([0, 0], []).build(); He wrote a biographical memoir for an edition of his father's writings, which was published in 187 r. At the same time he seems, according to the abstract of his memoir, to have made the somewhat contradictory assertion that sometimes there are more than three pieces in each series, and in certain groups of birds as many as six. The journal publishes original articles, review articles, brief communications, memoirs, and biographies. Fuller also published an admirable Memoir of the Rev. bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162050', zoneId: '776342', position: 'btf' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '387232' }}, Frank McCourt's Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Angela's Ashes, tells the story of his upbringing in the Irish slums during the era of the Great Depression. The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historial usage. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_SR' }}, if(!isPlusPopupShown()) It is in Charles Julian Brianchon's memoir " Sur les surfaces du second degre " (J our. The memoir generally tells your story while reading like a novel and covers less time than an autobiography. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195464', size: [120, 600] }}, Finally, in a celebrated memoir, Theorie des attractions des spheroides et de la figure des planetes, published in 1785 among the Paris Memoirs for the year 1782, although written after the treatise of 1784, Laplace treated exhaustively the general problem of the attraction of any spheroid upon a particle situated outside or upon its surface. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195458', size: [300, 250] }}, {code: 'ad_leftslot', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_leftslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/leftslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[120, 600], [160, 600]] } }, dfpSlots['contentslot_2'] = googletag.defineSlot('/2863368/mpuslot', [[300, 250], [336, 280], 'fluid'], 'ad_contentslot_2').defineSizeMapping(mapping_contentslot).setTargeting('cdo_si', '2').setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'mid').setTargeting('hp', 'center').addService(googletag.pubads()); (1897); Max Uhle, "Explorations in Peru," Memoir Univ. Morse, John Quincy Adams (Boston, 1883; new edition, 1899); Josiah Quincy, Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams (Boston, 1858); C. F. Hull, Mount Seir, Sinai and Western Palestine (London, 1885); and Memoir on the Climate. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '387232' }}, dfpSlots['contentslot_3'] = googletag.defineSlot('/2863368/mpuslot', [[300, 250], [336, 280], 'fluid'], 'ad_contentslot_3').defineSizeMapping(mapping_contentslot).setTargeting('cdo_si', '3').setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'mid').setTargeting('hp', 'center').addService(googletag.pubads()); Her family memoir Losing the Dead, is available from Vintage. Hull, Mount Seir, &c. (1885), and Memoir on the Geology of Arabia Petraea, &c. (1886); G. It was a poignant memoir of their lost life together. A memoir of Admiral Dahlgren by his widow was published at Boston in 1882. Hosack's Memoir of De Witt Clinton (New York, 1829); W. Bengels Lebensabriss and to the Memoir of His Life and Writings (J. See the memoir by Joseph P. Comegys in the Papers of the Historical Society of Delaware, No. His collected works were edited by his grandson Tryon Edwards in two volumes, with memoir (Andover, 1842). She has written a memoir of her encounters with W. 4. { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '448836' }}, Immediately after taking his degree, he read to the Cambridge Philosophical Society a very novel memoir, " On the Transformation of Surfaces by Bending.". { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_rightslot' }}]}, {code: 'ad_contentslot_2', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_mpuslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/mpuslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [336, 280]] } }, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195458', size: [336, 280] }}, { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_mpuslot3' }}]}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195464', size: [160, 600] }}, { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, We now come to Julius Plucker; his " six equations " were given in a short memoir in Crelle (1842) preceding his great work, the Theorie der algebraischen Curven (1844). window.ga=window.ga||function(){(ga.q=ga.q||[]).push(arguments)};ga.l=+new Date; { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195466', size: [728, 90] }}, He died in London, at the house of his son-in-law, on the 22nd of August 1752, leaving a memoir (3 vols., 1749-1750) which deserves more attention than it has received, both for its characteristic individuality and as a storehouse of curious anecdotes and illustrations of the religious and moral tendencies of the age. He wrote a memoir of his consulship in Greek and at one time thought of writing a history of Rome. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195452', size: [300, 250] }}, For his life and work, with a list of his publications, see Charles Friedel's memoir in the Bulletin de la Societe Chimique (1885); also A. 138; also, more fully in his memoir " Sur la theorie des variations des latitudes," Acta Mathematica, vol. Add the power of Cambridge Dictionary to your website using our free search box widgets. Our mini-lessons in Writer’s Workshop have been focusing on writing memoirs. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195457', size: [300, 50] }}, The book has dozens of quotations from sources we do not know, and that we cannot know unless we too spend years in archives reading unpublished memoirs. bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776144', position: 'btf' }}, Click on the arrows to change the translation direction. 100 examples: What the editors have categorized as ' memoirs ' constitute the collection's… 'min': 3.05, He has also published short stories and several volumes of memoirs. Geol. Here’s how to write a memoir. Arundell Blount Whatton, prefixed to a translation of the Venus in sole visa, appeared at London in 1859. Cooper's other works are The Memorials of Cambridge, (1858-1866) and a Memoir of Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby (1874). bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162050', zoneId: '776340', position: 'btf' }}, Parker broke, as most will allow, entirely fresh ground by communicating to the Zoological Society a memoir " On the Osteology of Balaeniceps," subsequently published in that Society's Transactions (iv. { bidder: 'openx', params: { unit: '539971071', delDomain: 'idm-d.openx.net' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346693' }}, From classics of literature that tell you about history to popular tell-alls to tear through while sunning yourself on the beach, these books provide something to inform you and delight you. Bonnal, Carnot, d'apres les archives, &c. (Paris, 1888); and memoir by E. little collection of psalms and hymns entitled The Spirit of the Psalms. His complete book of memoirs was published in 2004. Macalister's complete memoir of the Gezer excavations. In 1807 an account of the magnetic observations made during the tour with Humboldt was published in the first volume of the Memoires d'Arcueil, and the second volume, published in 1809, contained the important memoir on gaseous combination (read to the Societe Philomathique on the last day of 1808), in which he pointed out that gases combining with each other in volume do so in the simplest proportions-1 to 1, 1 to 2, 1 to 3 - and that the volume of the compound formed bears a simple ratio to that of the constituents. var mapping_rightslot = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([746, 0], [[300, 250]]).addSize([0, 0], []).build(); { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_SR' }}, The answer is that memoirs are and will remain particularly important because so much of the diplomacy was conducted informally on a personal level. 3. { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_mpuslot' }}, The minor importance of his Memoir of John Mason Good (1828) is due to the narrower fame of the subject. The memoir begins with her husband’s death, which launched the tumultuous and life-changing year that followed. {code: 'ad_contentslot_3', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_mpuslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/mpuslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [336, 280]] } }, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654156' }}, See Elie de Beaumont, " Memoir de Legendre," translated by C. A. . Balfour, "The Anatomy and Development of P. capensis," posthumous memoir, edited by H. Williams, London, 1725;1725; reprinted Oxford, 1844,1844, with memoir of the author), an attempt to prove that there has been no break in the line of ordination from the apostles to the English clergy. 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The most dramatic ' hidden histories ' discovered by scholars here are 'tin trunk ' diaries, journals or memoirs found after their authors had died. dfpSlots['contentslot_4'] = googletag.defineSlot('/2863368/mpuslot', [[300, 250], [336, 280], 'fluid'], 'ad_contentslot_4').defineSizeMapping(mapping_contentslot).setTargeting('cdo_si', '4').setTargeting('sri', '0').setTargeting('vp', 'mid').setTargeting('hp', 'center').addService(googletag.pubads()); { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654153' }}, "noPingback": true, In this memoir also the function which is now called the potential was, at the suggestion of Laplace, first introduced. If you want to write a memoir, begin with a powerful scene that provides a provocative glimpse into the story that follows. Lee wrote valuable Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department (1812; 3rd ed., with memoir by Robert E. In his memoir on the so-called Etruscan vases (Dei vasi antichi dipinti volgarmente chiamati Etruschi, 1806) Lanzi rightly perceived their Greek origin and characters. googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest(); { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195452', size: [300, 250] }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '446385' }}, {code: 'ad_contentslot_4', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_mpuslot', adUnitPath: '/2863368/mpuslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[300, 250], [320, 100], [320, 50], [300, 50]] } }, Dwight, a great-grandson of Edwards, published the Life and Works in io volumes, the first volume containing the memoir, which is still the most complete and was the standard until the publication (Boston, 1889) of Jonathan Edwards, by A. But in a memoir which Professor Barnabei read in the Reale Accademia dei Lincei (Atti della R. (1854-1858) by Sir William Hamilton and completed with a memoir by John Veitch. expires: 365 Clarke, the full details of which will be found in the original memoir (Phil. pbjs.setConfig(pbjsCfg); ), "The Official Letters of Alexander Spotswood" (with a memoir), in The Collections of the Virginia Historical Society (2 vols., Richmond, 1882-1885). { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_mpuslot3' }}]}, (1842); C. Knight, The Old Printer and the Modern Press (1854), and Passages of a Working Life (1864-1865); Memoir of Robert Chambers (1872); the London Cat. See Austin Phelps: A Memoir (New York, 1891), by his daughter, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps-Ward. Savigny's memoir contains a great deal of matter on the subject. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195457', size: [300, 250] }}, In his memoir, he would put down his dalliance with a White House intern to the worst of all possible motives. 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