Author: Mary Elizabeth BlakePublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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A Summer Holiday in Europe
Author: Mary Elizabeth BlakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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A Summer Holiday in Europe
Author: Mary Elizabeth BlakePublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230448428
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...long in questioning the principle which turns its power into weakness and its riches into dust. May the time come soon which is to change every injustice of force into the holy uses of the brotherhood of mankind. After the Invalides, one naturally turns toward Pere la Chaise, where lie so many of Napoleon's comrades. Next to the magnetism of contact with the living personage is that of standing by his tomb. Wandering here amid these The Exposition buildings. 937761A serried ranks of the great ones of the earth, a species of exaltation seizes one. The most leaden fancy cannot help but rise somewhat to the level of the spiritual company in which it finds itself. Here are they who moved nations and changed the face of the world, some with the shock and crash of arms, some by the brilliant light of genius, some by the quiet force of patient and loving endeavour. Pere la Chaise, more than the Pantheon, is the Westminster Alibey of France. What a grouping of the Immortals! The Marshals of France, that dazzling band that flashes like a train of comets across the battlefields of centuries; soldiers and sailors, sculptors, artists, poets; doctors who have lightened the woes of mankind, and politicians who have often added to them; authors and actors; scientists and mathematicians; all names that are like the voices of old friends heard again after long absence. One can fancy the leaders of each group surrounded by their followers. Ney and Massena, Lefebvre and Bruafc, David and Corot, and Alfred de Musset. Here would be N&aton and Larrey, De Morny and Thiers, Eacine, Balzac and La Fontaine, Moliere and Rachel, Gall and La Place. What an acre of the gods! To one who walks amid these close-built paths for the first time the shadow of these great...
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Author: Readers' Guide
Author: Third Bulletin of the Haverhill Public Library, 1888-1893 : with an Incorporation of the First Bulletin, (1878-1880).
Author: Haverhill Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
First[-sixth] Supplement to the Finding List of the Salem Public Library, Salem, Mass., December 1889[-October, 1894]
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Author: Salem Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Writer
Author: Bulletin
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)
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