The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages, Band 7Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton William Finley & Company, 1895 |
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... enemies . Before the king and his courtiers would accept her services , and permit her to perform her mission , she was subjected to several inquests , and was cross - examined by committees of unfriendly theologians , to whose captious ...
... enemies . Before the king and his courtiers would accept her services , and permit her to perform her mission , she was subjected to several inquests , and was cross - examined by committees of unfriendly theologians , to whose captious ...
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... enemies being both collectors of the evidence and custodians of the records . Though the life - work of Joan of Arc was brief and seem- ingly imperfect , its effects were permanent . Her country was redeemed from foreign domination ...
... enemies being both collectors of the evidence and custodians of the records . Though the life - work of Joan of Arc was brief and seem- ingly imperfect , its effects were permanent . Her country was redeemed from foreign domination ...
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... enemies could not refrain from weeping . The Bishop of Beauvais shed tears ; even the subtle and unimpassioned cardinal felt the general emotion . Recovering from his unwonted weakness , the bishop next read aloud her sentence . " You ...
... enemies could not refrain from weeping . The Bishop of Beauvais shed tears ; even the subtle and unimpassioned cardinal felt the general emotion . Recovering from his unwonted weakness , the bishop next read aloud her sentence . " You ...
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... Enemies it was that made the difference between their subsequent fortunes . The boy rose - to a splendor and a noonday prosperity , both per- sonal and public , that rang through the records of VII - 3 JOAN OF ARC . 33 The Shepherd-Girl ...
... Enemies it was that made the difference between their subsequent fortunes . The boy rose - to a splendor and a noonday prosperity , both per- sonal and public , that rang through the records of VII - 3 JOAN OF ARC . 33 The Shepherd-Girl ...
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... enemy's country , but soon the enemy faced about and fought more desperately than ever . Some mock elephants which Semi- ramis had caused to be made of the hides of oxen covering camels , proved of little avail against the native Indian ...
... enemy's country , but soon the enemy faced about and fought more desperately than ever . Some mock elephants which Semi- ramis had caused to be made of the hides of oxen covering camels , proved of little avail against the native Indian ...
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Seite 395 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Seite 269 - Where'er he turns, he meets a stranger's eye, His suppliants scorn him, and his followers fly...
Seite 318 - Where he greatly stood at bay, Whence he issued forth anew, And ever great and greater grew, Beating from the wasted vines Back to France her banded swarms, Back to France with countless blows, Till o'er the hills her eagles flew...
Seite 219 - And so he vanish'd: then came wandering by A shadow like an Angel, with bright hair Dabbled in blood; and he shriek'd out aloud, 'Clarence is come, — false, fleeting, perjur'd Clarence, That stabb'd me in the field by Tewkesbury; Seize on him, Furies, take him to your torments!
Seite 319 - He is gone who seem'd so great. — Gone ; but nothing can bereave him Of the force he made his own Being here, and we believe him Something far advanced in State, And that he wears a truer crown Than any wreath that man can weave him.
Seite 268 - ... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs.
Seite 398 - Sir, I know not how others may feel (glancing at the opponents of the college before him), but for myself, when I see my alma mater surrounded like Caesar in the Senate House, by those who are reiterating stab upon stab, I would not for this right hand, have her turn to me, and say, et tu quoque, mi fill ! and thou, too, my son ! — He sat down.
Seite 318 - Europe-shadowing wings, And barking for the thrones of kings ; Till one that sought but Duty's iron crown On that loud Sabbath shook the spoiler down ; A day of onsets of despair ! Dash'd on every rocky square Their surging charges foam'd themselves away ; Last, the Prussian trumpet blew ; Thro' the long-tormented air Heaven flashed a sudden jubilant ray And down we swept and charged and overthrew.
Seite 35 - ... those days, and great was he that sat upon it; but well Joanna knew that not the throne, nor he that sat upon it, was for her; but, on the contrary, that she was for them; not she by them, but they by her, should rise from the dust. Gorgeous were the lilies of France, and for centuries had the privilege to spread their beauty over land and sea, until, in another century, the wrath of God and man combined to wither them; but well Joanna knew, early at Domremy she had read that bitter truth, that...
Seite 170 - MY lady carries love within her eyes ; All that she looks on is made pleasanter; Upon her path men turn to gaze at her; He whom she greeteth feels his heart to rise...