Carlyle: 244 books

Seldom was there seen such a combination against any man as this against Friedrich, after his Saxon performances in 1756. The extent of his sin, which is now ascertained to have been what we saw, was at that time considered to transcend all computation, and to mark him out for partition, for suppression...

The Twelve Hercules-labors of this King have ended here; what was required of him in World-History is accomplished. There remain to Friedrich Twenty-three Years more of Life, which to Prussian History are as full of importance as ever; but do not essentially concern European History, Europe having gone...

Friedrich's own Peace being made on such terms, his wish and hope was, that it might soon be followed by a general European one; that, the live-coal, which had kindled this War, being quenched, the War itself might go out. Silesia is his; farther interest in the Controversy, except that it would end...

Of Friedrich's childhood, there is not, after all our reading, much that it would interest the English public to hear tell of. Perhaps not much of knowable that deserves anywhere to be known. Books on it, expressly handling it, and Books on Friedrich Wilhelm's Court and History, of which it is always...

Exiled for their beliefs, the faithful have been imprisoned deep inside the salt mines of ancient Rome. For the empire, salt is a symbol of life and prosperity; for the Christian slaves who mine it, its only meaning is death. Barbaric persecution and cave-ins threaten to stamp them out entirely, but...

Es posible que las teorías de Rousseau resulten hoy casi desdeñables y que en los oídos modernos suene declamatorio su estilo. Pero, mientras aliente en el hombre el sentimiento de la solidaridad y haya en su corazón un hueco para la verdad heroica y la pasión, Las Confesiones de Rousseau será uno de los más nobles, valientes y patéticos documentos literarios.

Das ergreifende Wiedersehen mit der verloren geglaubten Liebe Als Quin Hewitt seine Verlobung mit der hübschen Esmée Hamilton feiert, ist auch ein ganz besonderer Gast geladen: Contessa Bergonzi di Vicenza, die stimmgewaltige und erfolgreiche Sängerin aus Europa. Der Earl ist mehr als überrascht,...

Wenn aus Rache Liebe wird ... Sidonie Saint-Godard führt ein Doppelleben: Tagsüber bringt sie jungen Damen Benehmen bei, nachts wohlhabende Herren um ihr Vermögen. Als "Schwarzer Engel" nimmt sie Rache für all die Frauen, die von reichen Lords benutzt und fallen gelassen wurden. Stets tritt sie...