Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History
by Charles F. Horne
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
- Credits
- Produced by Sigal Alon, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- CT: History: Biography
- Subject
- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 26423
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26423
- Release Date
- August 27, 2008
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN
- 2.CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 3.STATESMEN AND SAGES — MOSES [1] By Henry George (1571-1451 B.C .) — DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL [3] By Margaret E. Sangster (1074-1001 B.C. ) — SOLOMON [4] By Rev. Charles F. Deems (1033-975 B.C. ) — LYCURGUS [5] By Rev. Joseph T. Duryea (About 884-820 B.C. ) — THEMISTOCLES (514-449 B.C. ) — PERICLES (499-429 B.C. ) — SOCRATES From the French of Fénelon (468-399 B.C. ) — DIOGENES From the French of Fénelon (412-323 B.C. ) — DEMOSTHENES [6] By E. Benjamin Andrews, Pres't of Brown University . (385-322 B.C .) — ARISTOTLE From the French of Fénelon (384-322 B.C .) — ARCHIMEDES By John Timbs, F.S.A. (287-212 B.C .) — MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO By Rev. W. J. Brodribb (106-43 B.C .) — AUGUSTUS CÆSAR (63 B.C. -14 A.D .) — ST. AMBROSE [7] By Rev. A. A. Lambing, LL.D. (340-397) — ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO [8] By His Eminence James, Cardinal Gibbons (354-430) — ST. PATRICK By Rev. G. F. Maclear, B.D . (ABOUT 372-466) — JUSTINIAN THE GREAT (483-565) — ST. AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY [9] By Rt. Rev. Henry Codman Potter, Bishop of New York (DIED, 604) — MAHOMET (571-632) — ALFRED THE GREAT By Sir J. Bernard Burke, LL.D . (849-901) — JOHN HUSS By Rev. Dr. Tweedie (1373-1415) — LOUIS XI. OF FRANCE By E. Spencer Beesly, M.A. (1423-1483.) — ISABELLA OF CASTILE [13] By Sarah H. Killikelly (1451-1504) — NICHOLAS COPERNICUS By John Stoughton, D.D. (1473-1543) — MARTIN LUTHER (1483-1546) — CHARLES V. OF GERMANY (1500-1558) — JOHN CALVIN (1509-1564) — JOHN KNOX By P. Hume Brown (1505-1572) — ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF ENGLAND By Samuel L. Knapp (1533-1603) — FRANCIS BACON [14] By Hon. Ignatius Donnelly (1561-1626) — GALILEO-GALILEI (1564-1642) — CARDINAL RICHELIEU (1585-1642) — WILLIAM BRADFORD [15] By Elbridge S. Brooks (1589-1657) — CHARLES I. OF ENGLAND By F. Hindes Groome (1600-1649) — OLIVER CROMWELL Extracts from "The History of England," by Thomas B. Macaulay (1599-1658) — FREDERICK, THE GREAT ELECTOR (1620-1688) — LOUIS XIV. [17] By Oliver Optic (1638-1715) — WILLIAM PENN (1644-1718)
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