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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... pride 195 • • Renewal of war with Louis XIV . . Marlborough created a duke Whigs and Tories . • Harley , Earl of Oxford His intrigues · 196 · • • · 197 • · • 197 198 • • 199 · Abigail Hill . 200 · Supplants the Duchess of Marlborough ...
... pride 195 • • Renewal of war with Louis XIV . . Marlborough created a duke Whigs and Tories . • Harley , Earl of Oxford His intrigues · 196 · • • · 197 • · • 197 198 • • 199 · Abigail Hill . 200 · Supplants the Duchess of Marlborough ...
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... pride , next to the His bishop the most influential man in Paris . The teachers of this school , or masters and doctors as they were called , and the priests of the cathedral formed the intellectual aristocracy of the city , and they ...
... pride , next to the His bishop the most influential man in Paris . The teachers of this school , or masters and doctors as they were called , and the priests of the cathedral formed the intellectual aristocracy of the city , and they ...
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... pride . This mutual infatuation was , it would seem , a gradual transition from the innocent pleasure of delightful com- panionship to the guilt of unrestrained desire . It was not premeditated design , —not calculation , but insidious ...
... pride . This mutual infatuation was , it would seem , a gradual transition from the innocent pleasure of delightful com- panionship to the guilt of unrestrained desire . It was not premeditated design , —not calculation , but insidious ...
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... pride . What would become of our world if men and women were left to choose their partners with the eye of unclouded reason ? Expediency would soon make a desert of earth , and there would be no para- dise found for those who are ...
... pride . What would become of our world if men and women were left to choose their partners with the eye of unclouded reason ? Expediency would soon make a desert of earth , and there would be no para- dise found for those who are ...
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... A cold and selfish act , such as we might expect in Louis XIV . and Madame de Maintenon , yet , never- theless , the feeble concession which pride and policy make to virtue , the triumph of expediency over all 46 HELOISE .
... A cold and selfish act , such as we might expect in Louis XIV . and Madame de Maintenon , yet , never- theless , the feeble concession which pride and policy make to virtue , the triumph of expediency over all 46 HELOISE .
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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