A Second Treasury of the World's Great Letters: A Mixed Mailbag Including Intimate Exchanges and Cycles of Correspondence by Famed Men and Women of History and the ArtsWallace Brockway, Bart Keith Winer Simon and Schuster, 1941 - 636 pages Brockway, Wallace & Winer, Bart Keith, ed. |
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... later , Gregory died , worn out by the tumults of Roman life . He had not reformed the Church , he had not pacified Italy — there had been no time . His suc- cessor , Urban VI , might have carried through some reforms - evidently he ...
... later , Gregory died , worn out by the tumults of Roman life . He had not reformed the Church , he had not pacified Italy — there had been no time . His suc- cessor , Urban VI , might have carried through some reforms - evidently he ...
Page 213
... later . When the reigning king of Poland died , an election was held to choose his successor . With Russian troops on Polish soil , with the state held in by Russia on one side and , on the other , by her ally , Prussia , at Catherine's ...
... later . When the reigning king of Poland died , an election was held to choose his successor . With Russian troops on Polish soil , with the state held in by Russia on one side and , on the other , by her ally , Prussia , at Catherine's ...
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... later Wagner's wife ) George Sand al- ways interfered , wrote in later life : " George Sand catches her butterfly and tames it in her cage by feeding it on flowers and nectar — this is the love period . Then she sticks her pin into it ...
... later Wagner's wife ) George Sand al- ways interfered , wrote in later life : " George Sand catches her butterfly and tames it in her cage by feeding it on flowers and nectar — this is the love period . Then she sticks her pin into it ...
Contents
A FATAL FRIENDSHIP A SERIES | 3 |
CAESAR WARNS CICERO TO STAND ALOOF FROM CIVIL STRIFE | 12 |
SENECA DENOUNCES THE MODERN TREATMENT | 17 |
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