Beacon Lights of HistoryCosimo, Inc., 1 gen 2009 - 420 pagine First published posthumously in 1902, this collection of the lectures of American historian JOHN LORD (1810-1894) is a charming rummage through 6,000 years of European and American history, exploring the past from "the old pagan civilizations" to modern leaders and cultures on both sides of the Atlantic. This replica edition features all the original illustrations, hard to come by in other recent versions. It will delight both readers of history and lovers of beautiful, classic books. Volume VII: "Great Women" covers: [ Heloise and love [ Joan of Arc and heroic women [ Saint Theresa and religious enthusiasm [ Madame de Maintenon: the political woman [ Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough: the woman of the world [ women in literature [ women in politics [ the education of women [ George Eliot: woman as novelist [ and more |
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Pagina 8
... France at this period Appreciated by Joan . Who resolves to come to the rescue of her king and country Difficulties which surrounded her • Her services finally accepted • Her faith in her mission • Her pure and religious life Joan sets ...
... France at this period Appreciated by Joan . Who resolves to come to the rescue of her king and country Difficulties which surrounded her • Her services finally accepted • Her faith in her mission • Her pure and religious life Joan sets ...
Pagina 34
... France , after he had achieved a great provincial reputation . He was then only twenty , a bright and daring youth , conscious of his powers , and burning with ambition . He was not fond of ambitious of ecclesiastical preferment , for ...
... France , after he had achieved a great provincial reputation . He was then only twenty , a bright and daring youth , conscious of his powers , and burning with ambition . He was not fond of ambitious of ecclesiastical preferment , for ...
Pagina 66
... France ; Life of St. Bernard ; French Ecclesiastical Historians ; Bayle's Critical Dictionary ; Biographie Universelle ; Pope's Lines on Abélard and Héloïse ; Letters of Abélard and Héloïse . JOAN OF ARC . A. D. 1412-1431 . HEROIC WOMEN ...
... France ; Life of St. Bernard ; French Ecclesiastical Historians ; Bayle's Critical Dictionary ; Biographie Universelle ; Pope's Lines on Abélard and Héloïse ; Letters of Abélard and Héloïse . JOAN OF ARC . A. D. 1412-1431 . HEROIC WOMEN ...
Pagina 69
... France during the Middle Ages ; hence I select her to illustrate heroic women . There are not many such who are known to fame ; though heroic qualities are not uncommon in the gentler sex , and a certain degree of heroism enters into ...
... France during the Middle Ages ; hence I select her to illustrate heroic women . There are not many such who are known to fame ; though heroic qualities are not uncommon in the gentler sex , and a certain degree of heroism enters into ...
Pagina 72
... France in the Middle Ages . Joan , or Jeanne , was the third daughter of one of the peasant laborers of Domremy . She was employed by her mother in spinning and sewing , while her sisters and brothers were set to watch cattle . Her ...
... France in the Middle Ages . Joan , or Jeanne , was the third daughter of one of the peasant laborers of Domremy . She was employed by her mother in spinning and sewing , while her sisters and brothers were set to watch cattle . Her ...
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Exalted character | 87 |
Ascendency of Lady Marlborough | 193 |
Voluntary exile of Marlborough | 200 |
Sarah Duchess of Marlborough 221 | 202 |
Unhappiness of the Duchess | 216 |
Provençal poetry in its connection with chivalrous senti | 228 |
Her marriage | 234 |
Friendship with Madame de Staël | 240 |
His old age soothed by Récamier | 249 |
Coronation of Charles | 88 |
Incense offered to | 97 |
Declining days of the Duchess | 102 |
Pleasures of the body the aim of Paganism | 110 |
The age of Saint Theresa | 116 |
Catholic theology | 124 |
Inaugurated a new style in literature | 132 |
The Vision of St Therese | 132 |
Birth of Madame de Maintenon | 146 |
Friendship of the King for Madame de Maintenon | 153 |
Fr de S de la Mothe Fenelon | 154 |
Secret of Madame de Maintenons influence | 164 |
Madam de Maintenon | 165 |
66 | 174 |
Her death | 176 |
46 | 178 |
The Duchess of Marlborough compared with Madame | 181 |
Death of William III | 187 |
Reflections on her career | 192 |
Her death | 254 |
WOMAN IN LITERATURE | 263 |
Literary women | 266 |
HANNAH MORE | 278 |
Madame de Stael | 280 |
GEORGE ELIOT | 288 |
Progress of female education | 301 |
Garrick and His Wife | 308 |
Retirement to Cowslip Green | 311 |
George Eliot | 343 |
Nineteenth Century the age of novelists | 346 |
Appearance education and acquirements | 351 |
Mr Gilfils Love Story | 360 |
The Mill on the Floss | 367 |
Romola | 371 |
Felix Holt | 377 |
Theophrastus Such | 384 |
47 | 390 |
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