Category: Biographies

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942 [Editor]· 2 chapters· 108,847 words

COLUMBUS BEFORE ISABELLA, _Vacslav Brozik_ _Frontispiece_ ULYSSES DEFYING THE CYCLOPS, _Louis-Frederic Schutzenberger_ 10 THE MOTHER OF THE GRACCHI, _Gustave Boulanger_ 20 LEIF ERICSON OFF THE COAST OF VINELAND, _O. A. Wergeland_ 52 THE VISION OF ST. BERNARD, _Wilhelm Bernatzi...

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COLUMBUS BEFORE ISABELLA, _Vacslav Brozik_ _Frontispiece_ ULYSSES DEFYING THE CYCLOPS, _Louis-Frederic Schutzenberger_ 10 THE MOTHER OF THE GRACCHI, _Gustave Boulanger_ 20 LEIF...

2. mild. His conversation was discreet, which gained him the affection of

those he had to deal with, and his presence attracted respect, having an air of authority and grandeur. He was a man of undaunted courage and high thoughts, patient, unmoved in...