The Project Gutenberg e-Book of Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 3. Editor: Charles F. Horne

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Editor

Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942

Title

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

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. 1.GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN
2. 2.CONTENTS OF VOLUME III. — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
3. 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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