The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters
Mee
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All human eloquence, among all peoples and in all times, may be summed up as the quarrel of Right against Law.
The whole of man is there. We are brothers in our life, equal in birth and death, free in soul.
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- AcknowledgementSample
- Deeds and Words
- I.--Right and Law
- II.--Days of Childhood
- III.--Before the Exile
- IV.--Republican Principles
- V.--In Exile
- VI.--After the Exile
- The Courtships of Elizabeth
- I.--Foreign Philandering
- II.--The Nine Years' Comedy
- III.--Catholics and Heretics
- IV.--The Lovelorn Alençon
- V.--The Battle of Wits
- The Love Affairs of Mary Queen of Scots
- I.--Betrothed in her Cradle
- II.--Intrigue, Plot, and Intrigue
- III.--Prudence Overcome by Passion
- IV.--Dire Infatuation
- V.--Langside and After
- Life of Christopher Columbus
- The Years of Waiting
- The First Voyage (August, 1492--March, 1493)
- The Second Voyage (September, 1493--June, 1496)
- The Third Voyage (May, 1498--October, 1500)
- The Fourth Voyage (May, 1502--November, 1504)
- Life of George Washington
- Conflicts with the French
- The Dawn of Independence
- Declaration of Independence
- The Winning of Independence
- The Years of Peace
- Autobiography
- I.--Priest of the Blood-Royal
- II.--The Prelude to the Great Crisis
- III.--Governor of Galilee
- IV.--The Failure of His Foes
- Life of Sir Walter Scott
- Early Years
- The Poet's Education
- Marriage
- Early Poems
- Scott's Chief Poems
- The Waverley Novels
- Abbotsford
- The End of All
- The Life of Robert Burns
- I.--The Poet in the Making
- II.--The Loves of a Peasant Poet
- III.--Burns at His Zenith
- IV.--The Clarinda Romance
- V.--Closing Years of the Poet's Life
- Table Talk
- God's Word and Book
- God's Dealing with Us
- Points from "Popedom"
- Hints for Preachers
- Time's Forelock
- Modern Luxury
- Ministers and Matrimony
- Miscellaneous Topics
- Strong Opinions Outworn by Time
- Characteristic Sayings
- I.--"The Hurricane"
- II.--Into Political Life
- III.--For King and People
- IV.--President of the National Assembly
- Life of Byron
- I.--Ancestors and Early Days
- II.--The Poet Finds Himself
- III.--Byron's Unfortunate Marriage
- IV.--Wanderings and Work
- V.--A Bewildering Personality
- Life and Times of St. Bernard
- I.--The Early Days of a Useful Life
- II.--A Great Preacher and Essayist
- III.--St. Bernard and the Second Crusade
- Life of Richard Cobden
- I.--On the Road
- II.--The Corn Laws
- III.--Cobden and Bright
- IV.--In the Cause of Peace
- V.--Cobden as Treaty-Maker
- VI.--The Last Days of Cobden
- Diary
- I.--"God Bless King Charles"
- II.--The Plague
- III.--The Great Fire
- IV.--Of the Badness of the Government
- V.--The End of the Diary
- Letters
- To Cornelius Tacitus
- To Minucius Fundanus
- To Septicius Clarus
- To Avitus
- To Baebius Macer
- To Cornelius Tacitus
- To Calpurnia, His Wife
- To Germinius
- To the Emperor Trajan
- Political Testament
- Retrospect
- Of Education
- Of the Nobility
- Of the Disorders of Justice
- To the Officers of Finance
- Of the People
- Reason and Government
- Public Interests First
- The Power of Kingship
- The Whole Duty of Princes
- Confessions
- Madame de Warens
- Three Years in Turin
- Seeking a Career
- Our Little Circle
- Les Charmettes
- The Gathering Gloom
- Memoirs
- Court Intrigues
- Richelieu's Death
- Under Mazarin's Rule
- Wars of the Fronde
- Letters
- Love for her Daughter
- The Brinvilliers Affair
- Devotion
- Love of Life
- The Order of God
- The Prince of Orange and England
- Old Age
- The Life of Nelson
- I.--A Captain at Twenty
- II.--In the Mediterranean
- III.--St. Vincent and the Nile
- IV.--Lady Hamilton
- V.--Trafalgar
- Memoirs
- A Convent Child
- Thrown on the World
- Political Intrigues
- In the Bastille
- Life of William Pitt
- I.--The Boy Statesman
- II.--The Regency Problem
- III.--The Struggle with France
- IV.--Resignation
- V.--The Last Ministry
- The Life of Thomas Arnold, D.D.
- I.--Youth and Early Manhood
- II.--Headmaster of Rugby
- III.--As Teacher and Preacher
- IV.--Influence of the Great Teacher
- Life of Queen Elizabeth
- I.--The Lady Elizabeth
- II.--Mary Stuart and Saint Bartholomew
- III.--The Hour of Mary's Doom
- IV.--Elizabeth's Closing Years
- Journal to Stella
- LONDON, Sept. 9, 1710.
- LONDON, NOV. 11, 1710.
- CHELSEA, June, 1711.
- LONDON, July, 1711.
- LONDON, Dec. 1, 1711.
- LONDON, Dec. 20, 1711.
- LONDON, Feb. 26, 1712.
- LONDON, April 6, 1713
- Childhood, Boyhood, Youth
- I.--Childhood
- II.--Boyhood
- III.--Youth
- I.--Evil Early Years
- II.--Groping in Darkness
- III.--The Spirit of Despair
- IV.--Mistakes Apprehended
- V.--Feeling Versus Reason
- The Life of Girolamo Savonarola
- I.--1452-1494
- II.--1475-1481
- III.--1481-1490
- IV.--1491
- V.--1492-1494
- VI.--1495-1497
- VII.--1497-1498
- Journal
- The Holy Club
- A Missioner to Georgia
- Warrant for Wesley's Arrest
- In London Again
- Beau Nash Argues with Wesley
- "All the World My Parish"
- The Colliers of Kingswood
- In Ireland
- Clothing French Prisoners
- Gwennap's Famous Amphitheatre
- The American War
- City Road Chapel Begun
- Attended by Felons
- Enters His 80th Year
- His 86th Christmas
- Journal
- I.--The Curse of Slavery
- II--Among the Indians
- III.--Across the Atlantic
- IV.--Prices, Wages, and Religion