Category: History - European
Foundation building is neither picturesque nor especially interesting, but it is indispensable. However fair the structure is to be, one must first lay the rough-hewn stones upon which it is to rest. It would be much pleasanter in this sketch to display at once the minarets an...
We have now reached a period with which readers of to-day have more or less personal familiarity. This hour of deep depression in Germany was the one which comes before the dawn.
14. CHAPTER VI.This colossal figure stands the one supreme historical landmark midway between Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte. In looking back, he saw not his equal in history until he be...
20. CHAPTER XII.When that kingly old man, Emperor William, sank at last under the weight of years, the crown so brilliantly won at Versailles in 1871 rested on the head of Unser Fritz--no longe...
15. CHAPTER VII.In the early part of the sixteenth century the fate of Europe was in the hands of three men--Charles V., Emperor of Germany; Francis I., King of France, and Henry VIII., King of...
10. CHAPTER II.Greece and Rome were unaware of the existence of the Teuton until about the year 330 B.C., when Pythias, a Greek navigator, came home from a voyage to the Baltic with terrible t...
9. CHAPTER I.Foundation building is neither picturesque nor especially interesting, but it is indispensable. However fair the structure is to be, one must first lay the rough-hewn stones upo...
17. CHAPTER IX.When the nineteenth century dawned, a new and striking figure had appeared in Europe. Napoleon Bonaparte had arisen with a bound from obscurity in Corsica to supreme authority i...
11. CHAPTER III.As some winged seed is wafted from a fair garden into a dark, distant forest, and there takes root and blossoms, so was the seed-germ of Christianity caught by the wind of desti...
12. CHAPTER IV.I cannot resist the temptation of saying a few words about the Anglo-Saxon occupation of Britain, which, as it virtually converted us from Kelts into Teutons, is not a digression.
19. CHAPTER XI.The rest can be briefly told. Napoleon III., in brand new splendor, was watching these events from Paris. He had an uncomfortable sense that everything was too new and fine. The...
13. CHAPTER V.The Roman Empire, in its decrepitude, found it a difficult task to retain its dominion over Gaul, and so enlisted the Franks as allies. Thus was made a breach in the wall betwee...
16. CHAPTER VIII.The desultory war against the new heresy had been ineffectual. As it was stamped out in one place, it blazed up afresh in others. Now it should be, at whatever cost, exterminate...
5. CHAPTER VII.4. CHAPTER VI.3. CHAPTER V.1. CHAPTER I.8. CHAPTER XII.7. CHAPTER XI.2. CHAPTER III.6. CHAPTER IX.