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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... soul 113 Mistakes of monastic life 114 The age of Saint Theresa 116 Her birth and early training 117 Mediæval piety . • 118 Theresa sent to a convent to be educated 119 Her health poor 119 Religious despotism of the Middle Ages 120 ...
... soul 113 Mistakes of monastic life 114 The age of Saint Theresa 116 Her birth and early training 117 Mediæval piety . • 118 Theresa sent to a convent to be educated 119 Her health poor 119 Religious despotism of the Middle Ages 120 ...
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... 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 sentiment , and an inspiration . To attempt to ...
... 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 sentiment , and an inspiration . To attempt to ...
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... soul . - - all that Socrates , " says Legouvé , " who caught glimpses of everything that he did not clearly define , uttered one day to his disciples these beautiful words : ' There are two Venuses : one celestial , called Urania , the ...
... soul . - - all that Socrates , " says Legouvé , " who caught glimpses of everything that he did not clearly define , uttered one day to his disciples these beautiful words : ' There are two Venuses : one celestial , called Urania , the ...
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... soul may leave my body . " Thus did Dante impersonate the worship of Venus Urania , - spiritual tenderness overcoming sensual de- sire . Thus faithful to the traditions of this great poet did the austere Michael Angelo do reverence to ...
... soul may leave my body . " Thus did Dante impersonate the worship of Venus Urania , - spiritual tenderness overcoming sensual de- sire . Thus faithful to the traditions of this great poet did the austere Michael Angelo do reverence to ...
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... soul which eclipsed the brightness of uncommon intellectual facul- ties , for a depth of sympathy and affection which have become embalmed in the heart of the world , and for a living piety which blazes all the more conspicuously from ...
... soul which eclipsed the brightness of uncommon intellectual facul- ties , for a depth of sympathy and affection which have become embalmed in the heart of the world , and for a living piety which blazes all the more conspicuously from ...
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 |
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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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