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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 1
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto

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es of irreligion and atheism, which some writershave brought against him, unless we make up our minds to believe him an ac-complished hypocrite. He spoke at considerable length, and his dying wordshave been faithfully reported. They contain a denial of all the serious offenceslaid to his charge, and express his forgiveness of those even who had betrayedhim under the mask of friendship. After delivering this address, and spendingsome time in prayer, he laid his head on the block, and breathing a short privateprayer, gave the signal to the executioner. Not being immediately obeyed, hepartially raised his head, and said, What dost thou fear ? Strike, man ! andunderwent the fatal blow without shrinking or alteration of position. He diedin his sixty-sixth year. Raleigh sat in several Parliaments, and took an active part in the business ofthe house. His speeches, preserved in the Journals, are said by Mr. Tytler tobe remarkable for an originality and freedom of thought far in advance of the
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LEUT2E PINXIT. RALEIGH PARTING FROM HIS WIFE. MILES STANDISH 189 time. His expression was varied and animated, and his powers of conversationremarkable. His person was dignified and handsome, and he excelled in bodilyaccomplishments and martial exercises. He was very fond of paintings, and ofmusic; and, in literature as in art, he possessed a cultivated and correct taste.He was one of those rare men who seem qualified to excel in all pursuits alike;and his talents were set off by an extraordinary laboriousness and capacity ofapplication. As a navigator, soldier, statesman, and historian, his name is inti-mately and honorably linked with one of the most brilliant periods of Britishhistory. MILES STANDISH* By Elbridge S. Brooks (1584-1656) THREE hundred years ago the houseof Standish was a notable one inEngland. The family had numerouspossessions ; their Lancashire estate ofDux bury Hall, in the shadow of Riv-ington Pike and the t*ennine Hills, wa&pleasant and extensive, and there t

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