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Excerpt from Samuel De Champlain: Number 14Champlain was born in the year 1567, a most interesting time. The ¿ood of life, swelling upon the discovery of a new world, upon the knowledge of astronomy, navigation, and geography, upon printing and bills of exchange, swept over western Europe on ward and upward. In England Elizabeth was finishing the first ten years of her reign, Francis Drake was captain of his first ship, Raleigh, Sidney, and Sp...

Excerpt from Ignatius Loyola: An Attempt at an Impartial BiographySecond: the great heritage that our world of to-day has received from Spain, or, perhaps I should say - though it is all one so far as the Jesuits are concerned - from the Iberian peninsula, is the civilization of South America, and in that civilization, as I am told, the Order of Jesus has been the chief individual factor. I quote from a very recent book by a French scholar: Th...

Excerpt from Italy in the Thirteenth Century, Vol. 1The thirteenth century has always held its head high among its fellows. Ernest Renan calls it le plus grand siecle du moyen age, and John Fiske the glorious century. Its predecessors, the eleventh and twelfth, have their devotees and rightly, for one is the morning twilight, the other the dawn, of our modern civilization but in the thirteenth the sun is high in heaven, Europe resounds with ha...

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Excerpt from The New American Type, and Other EssaysBloods, but most of our ancestors Of Revolu tionary times were featured and complexioned like British men. Of these men there were in the galleries several portraits painted by Trum bull. There was John Adams, a short, ruddy, choleric little man, with the free bearing of an English yeoman, ready, perhaps over-ready, to defend his curtilage and cowyard, his plowed fields and fallow, against ta...

Excerpt from Dante LifeIn these years we are living through a period that seems the handiwork of the Spirit of Evil, as if the Almighty had said to Satan, Put forth thine hand, behold all that man hath is within thy power, and we turn to the great spiritual leaders of the world as never before. For many the traditional doctrines of Christianity have lost much, or all, of their power, the comfort that depends upon supernatural virtue has lost i...

Excerpt from Marcus Aurelius: A Biography Told as Much as May Be by Letters, Together With Some Account of the Stoic Religion and an Exposition of the Roman Government's Attempt to Suppress Christianity During Marcus's ReignI have not wished to encumber the pages with notes, and therefore I have relegated to the appendix most references to my authority for statements in the text. Such quotations in a foreign language as have not been translate...

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Excerpt from An Apology for Old Maids: And Other Essays Married people, animated by the prejudices of an animal ancestry and by a jealous esprit de corps, long ago created a legend about celibates, which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolo...

Excerpt from Italy in the Thirteenth Century, Vol. 2 From joining with the jolly pack, For I have heard men say That on a jocund holiday They cannot outwardly conceal The inner merriment they feel. And the affection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-...

Excerpt from Essays on Great Writers As generations roll on, the past drifts more and more from the field of our vision the England of Scott's day has become a classic the, the subjects of George III. Are strangers of foreign habits, tastes change, customs alter, books multiply, and with all the rest the Waverley Novels likewise show their antique dress and betray their mortality but the life of a great man never loses its interest. As a time...

About the Book Books that contain Epic Poetry are long narrative poems that recount long past extraordinary and grand events that have passed into legend. Titles include: A Translation of Dante's Inferno, Beowulf: An Epic Poem, Cynewulf's Christ: an eighth century English epic, Dante's Ten Heavens, A Study of the Paradiso, Das Gudrunlied, Eclectic English Classics. Paradise Lost (Books I. And II.), Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome: The Armada, ...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from Italy in the Thirteenth Century, Vol. 1 The thirteenth century has always held its head high among its fellows. Ernest Renan calls it lo plus grand siécle du moyen age, and John Fiske the glorious century. Its predecessors, the eleventh and twelfth, have their devotees and rightly, for one is the morning twilight, the other the dawn, of our modern civilization but in the thirteenth the sun is high in heaven, Europe resounds with ...

Excerpt from Ignatius Loyola: An Attempt at an Impartial Biography Lord Acton calls him that extraordinary man in whom the Spirit of the Catholic Reaction is incorporated, and the most eminent. Of modern Spanish scholars, Menendez y Pelayo, says, Ignatius more than any other man is the living embodiment of the Spanish spirit in its golden age. In this aspect, then, as the representative of Spain at the time of her glory, Loyola has a claim on...