Great books as life-teachers: studies of character, real and ideal
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- Great books as life-teachers: studies of character, real and ideal
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- 1906
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Great books as life-teachers: studies of character, real and ideal
Author: Hillis, Newell Dwight, 1858-1929
Year: 1906
The new times, and the poets and essayists as prophets of a new era.--John Ruskin's "Seven lamps of architecture" as interpreters of the seven laws of life ... --George Eliot's Tito, in "Romola" ... --Hawthorne's "Scarlet letter" and the retributive workings of conscience ... --Victor Hugo's "Les miserables."--Tennyson's "Idylls of the king."--The tragedy of the ten-talent men; a study of Browning's "Saul."--The memoirs of Henry Drummond, and the dawn of an era of friendship between science and religion.--The opportunities of leisure and wealth; an outlook upon the life of Lord Shaftesbury.--The biography of Frances Willard, and the heroes of social reform.--Blaikie's life of David Livingstone; a study of nineteenth-century heroism.--The Christian scholar in politics; a study of the life of William Ewart Gladstone