George Washington
- Author: Thayer William Roscoe
- Genre: Political
This is one of the best attempts to research the biography of the founder of the American nation and the first President of the United States. The author William Roscoe Thayer has research a number of Washington's personal letters and on their basis has created a portrait of this legendary person aiming at eliminating prejudices and misperceptions of his life and activity. The book is intended for everyone interested in the personality of George Washington as well as in the history of the United States.
the art of biography
- Author: Thayer William Roscoe
- Genre: Artists, Architects & Photographers
THE instinct of reproduction is, next to that of self-preservation, the most imperative of all. It includes not merely the desire to leave flesh-and-blood progeny but also, after human beings have reached a certain intellectual level, a desire to perpetuate symbols of their thoughts and experience, and evidences, however crude, of their passions. In the slow course of ages the savage comes to regard himself as an individual, that is, an ultimate unit, in his tribe or clan. Later he discovers that he is a person, a being through whom some other being, more than human, mysteriously speaks.Table of Contents I Biography in Antiquity i; II From Mediaeval to Modern Biography 55; III Biography in the Nineteenth; Century 101; A Snort List of Books 149About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
a short history of venice
- Author: Thayer William Roscoe
- Genre: Philosophy
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II BUILDING THE STATE, 810-1096 Angelo Paktecipazo, or Badoer (811-27), the first Doge of the new era, set about converting the islands of Rialto into a worthy capital. He built the first Ducal Palace, doubtless a rugged structure, on the site where the present one stands. He appointed Pietro Tradonico to be chief architect for the whole city, Lorenzo Alimpato to direct the digging of canals and the raising of embankments, and Nicolo Ardisonio to devise means for protecting the lidi from being washed away. Angelo has justly been called the founder of Venice, for by him and by these three assistants were traced the outlines of the magic city which we know. Most of the little islands forming the Rialtine group were already inhabited; but he joined them by bridges and united them under a single administration. Angelo had been dead only a few months when the body of St. Mark was brought to Venice (January 31, 828) by two merchants, Rustico of Torcello and Buonoof Malamocco, who had escaped with it, in marvelous fashion, from Alexandria. We can hardly realize what it meant in that age for a city to have a patron saint. He served it not only as a constant protector in its daily affairs, but also as an intercessor before the Almighty. By its thinly disguised polytheistic system of saints, angels and archangels, the Roman Church perpetuated the ancient pagan worship of minor gods and local deities of beings sufficiently near the human to be within the reach of the average understanding. Between the worshiper and God, the Church has always interposed either some celestial intercessor or a living priest, and has dedicated its houses of worship not to God but to his saints. The patron of a city or a state was, therefore, of the highest religious importance. In St. Mark...
the best elizabethan plays
- Author: Thayer William Roscoe
- Genre: 17th century
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II. THE ALCHEMIST. By Ben Jonson. Produced in 1610; dedicated to Lady Mary Wroth, niece of Sir Philip Sidney. THE ALCHEMIST.1 TO THE READER. IF thou beest more, thou art an understander, and then I trust thee. If thou art one that takest up, and but a pretender, beware of what hands thou receivest thy commodity; for thou wert never more fair in the way to be cozened than in this age, in poetry, especially in plays: wherein now the concupiscence of dances and of antics so reigneth, as to run away from Nature, and be afraid of her, is the only point of Art that tickles the spectators. But how out of purpose and place do I name Art? When the professors are grown so obstinate contemners of it, and presumers on their own naturals, as they are deriders of all diligence that way, and, by simple mocking at the terms, when they understand not the things, think to get off wittily with their ignorance. Nay, they are esteemed the more learned and sufficient for this, by the many, through their excellent vice of judgment. For they commend writers as they do fencers and wrestlers; who, if they come in robustuously, and put for it with a great deal of violence, are received for the braver fellows : when many times their own rudeness is the cause of their disgrace, and a little touch of their adversary gives all that boisterous force the foil. I deny not but that these men, who always seek to do more than enough, may sometime happen on something that is good and great; but very seldom: and when it comes it doth not recompense tne rest of their ill. It sticks out, perhaps, and is more eminent, because all is sordid and vile about it; as lights are more discerned in a thick darkness than a faint shadow. I speak not this out of a hope to do good to any man against his will; for I k...
germany vs civilization notes on the atrocious war
- Author: Thayer William Roscoe
- Genre: Germany
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democracy discipline peace
- Author: Thayer William Roscoe
- Genre: History
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