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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... girl , was a queen of such society as existed in the city , albeit more admired by men than women , - poetical , imaginative , witty , ready , frank , with a singular appreciation of intellectual excellence , dazzled by literary fame ...
... girl , was a queen of such society as existed in the city , albeit more admired by men than women , - poetical , imaginative , witty , ready , frank , with a singular appreciation of intellectual excellence , dazzled by literary fame ...
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... girl without friends or influence , living among the Vosges mountains on the borders of Champagne and Lorraine . She was born in 1412 , in the little obscure village of Domremy on the Meuse , on land belonging to the French crown . She ...
... girl without friends or influence , living among the Vosges mountains on the borders of Champagne and Lorraine . She was born in 1412 , in the little obscure village of Domremy on the Meuse , on land belonging to the French crown . She ...
Pagina 72
... girl in the village ; strong , healthy , and beautiful ; a spirit lowly but poetic , superstitious but humane , and fond of romantic adventures . But her piety was one of her most marked peculiarities , and somehow or other she knew ...
... girl in the village ; strong , healthy , and beautiful ; a spirit lowly but poetic , superstitious but humane , and fond of romantic adventures . But her piety was one of her most marked peculiarities , and somehow or other she knew ...
Pagina 73
John Lord. or her visions . She seems to have been a girl of extraordinary good sense , which was as marked as her religious enthusiasm . The most remarkable thing about this young peas- ant girl is that she claimed to have had visions ...
John Lord. or her visions . She seems to have been a girl of extraordinary good sense , which was as marked as her religious enthusiasm . The most remarkable thing about this young peas- ant girl is that she claimed to have had visions ...
Pagina 76
... girl of sixteen ( some say eighteen ) years of age . Although Joan , as we have said , was uneducated , she yet clearly compre- hended the critical condition of her country , and with the same confidence that David had in himself and in ...
... girl of sixteen ( some say eighteen ) years of age . Although Joan , as we have said , was uneducated , she yet clearly compre- hended the critical condition of her country , and with the same confidence that David had in himself and in ...
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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 |
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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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