A book of golden deeds of all times and all lands / gathered and narrated by the author of "The heir of Redclyffe" ; illustrated by L. Frölich.

  • Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901.
Date:
1870
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A book of golden deeds of all times and all lands / gathered and narrated by the author of "The heir of Redclyffe" ; illustrated by L. Frölich. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    not so much renounced as forgotten; the object of which is not to win promotion, wealth, or success, but simple duty, mercy, and loving-kindness. These are the actions wrought, “ hoping for nothing again,” but which most surely have their reward. The authorities have not been given, as for the most part the narratives lie on the surface of history. For the description of the Colysaeum, I have, however, been indebted to the Abbe Gerbet’s Rome Chre- tienne ; for the Housewives of Lowenburg, and St. Stephen’s Crown, to Freytag’s Sketches of German Life ; and for the story of George the Triller, to Mr. Mayhew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narrated (from Gregory of Tours) in Thierry’s “Lettres sur l’Histoire de Francethe Russian officer’s ad- ventures, and those of Prascovia Lopouloff, the true Elisabeth of Siberia, are from M. le Maistre; the shipwrecks chiefly from Gilly’s “ Shipwrecks of the British Navy;” the Jersey Powder Magazine from the Annual Register, and that at Ciudad Rodrigo, from the traditions of the 52d Regiment. There is a cloud of doubt resting on a few of the tales, which it may be honest to mention, though they were far too beautiful not to tell. These are the details of the Gallic occupation of Rome, the Legend