Beacon Lights of HistoryCosimo, Inc., 2009 M01 1 - 420 pages 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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... human existence , and pertaining to the soul in its highest aspirations . Allied with the transient and the mortal , even with the weak and corrupt , it is yet immortal in its nature and lofty in its aims , at once a passion , a ...
... human existence , and pertaining to the soul in its highest aspirations . Allied with the transient and the mortal , even with the weak and corrupt , it is yet immortal in its nature and lofty in its aims , at once a passion , a ...
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... human in her impulses , but divine in her graces ; one of those characters for whom we cannot help feeling the deepest sympathy and the profoundest admiration , a character that has its contradictions , like that warrior - bard who was ...
... human in her impulses , but divine in her graces ; one of those characters for whom we cannot help feeling the deepest sympathy and the profoundest admiration , a character that has its contradictions , like that warrior - bard who was ...
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... human nature . He may have strengthened the papal domination , but he weakened the restraints of home . Only a dark and beclouded age could have upheld such a policy . Upon the Church of the Middle Ages we lay the blame of these false ...
... human nature . He may have strengthened the papal domination , but he weakened the restraints of home . Only a dark and beclouded age could have upheld such a policy . Upon the Church of the Middle Ages we lay the blame of these false ...
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... human weakness , since the languor of passion had weakened his power and his eloquence , to sacrifice her to his fame ; “ to permit her no longer to adore him as a divinity who accepts the homage of his worshippers ; to love her no ...
... human weakness , since the languor of passion had weakened his power and his eloquence , to sacrifice her to his fame ; “ to permit her no longer to adore him as a divinity who accepts the homage of his worshippers ; to love her no ...
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... human and less conventional . She had not conquered her love ; once given , it could not be taken back . She accepted her dreary immo- lation in the convent , since she obeyed Abélard both as husband and as a spiritual father ; but she ...
... human and less conventional . She had not conquered her love ; once given , it could not be taken back . She accepted her dreary immo- lation in the convent , since she obeyed Abélard both as husband and as a spiritual father ; but she ...
Contents
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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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