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Great Men as Prophets of a New Era

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Abelard and Héloise, 19

Achilles, 37

Act of Toleration, The, 114

Adam Bede, 146

Æneas, The wanderings of, 35

Alexander the Great, 86, 103

Alexander the Sixth, 42, 51

Alva, Duke of, 61, 66, 67, 68, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75

Angelo, Michael, 11, 12, 15, 27, 39, 123, 140

Areopagitica, 131, 132

Aristotle, 25

Arnold, Matthew, 144

Asbury, Francis, 162

Asia Minor, 55

Athens, 26, 37, 50, 84, 195

Augustus Cæsar, 36

Bacon, Francis, 32

Balfour, Lord, 89

Barnett, Canon, 197

Barrett, Elizabeth, 39

Beatrice, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 30, 205

Bedford Jail, 32, 85

Beecher, Henry Ward, 158

"Beggars," The fleet of, 73, 74, 77

Bernard the Monk, 105

Birrell, Augustine, 144

Black Death, The, 97, 100

"Bloody Council," The, 57

Booth, William, 199

Boswell's Life of Johnson, 151

Bradford, William, 57

Brescia, 43

Brougham, Henry, 103

Browning, Robert, 39

Bunyan, John, 12, 32, 85, 105, 142, 216

Burke, Edmund, 132

Calvin, John, 54

Carlyle, Thomas, 89, 145

Cateau-Cambresis, Treaty of, 70

Cavour, 39, 166

Cecilia, St., 21

Cervantes, 84

Charles I of England, 94, 95, 99, 101, 102, 103, 109, 110, 112, 123, 132, 133

Charles II of England, 111, 112

Charles V, Emperor of Germany, 69

Charles VIII of France, 48

Charles IX of France, 74

Childe Harold, 23

Church, The, 15, 41, 53, 63, 93

Columbus, Christopher, 14, 35, 200

Common people in the Dark Ages, The, 14

Comus, 121

Constantinople, 36, 40, 88, 168

Copernicus, 35

Cromwell, Oliver, 57, 85, 86, 87, 88, 91, 97, 98, 102, 103, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 123, 132, 133, 134, 135

"Crowning Mercy of Worcester, The," 109

Curtis, George William, 9

Dante, Alighieri, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 40, 50, 105, 123, 136, 140, 142, 205

Dark Ages, The, 14, 36

Dekker, 118

De Quincey, Thomas, 129

Divine Comedy, The, 19, 22, 23, 24, 136

Divine Right of Kings, The, 91, 113, 123

Easter Day, 25

Eclipse in English literature, 125

Edison, Thomas, 191

Eliot, George, 39, 146

Eliot, Sir John, 95, 101

England's darkest hour, 89

England in the days of Charles I, 97, 98, 99

Erasmus, 54, 57

Este, Duke of, 41

Farmer of Huntingdon, The, 90, 108

Ferrara, 40

Feudalism, 14

Ficino, 45

Florence, 14, 16, 37, 38, 43, 45, 46, 47, 50, 52, 216

Foch, Marshal, 86

Francis of Assisi, 105

Franklin, Benjamin, 12, 147, 178

French Revolution, The, 144

Garibaldi, 39, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174, 176, 177, 179, 180, 181, 182, 184, 186, 187;

in the United States, 177

Garibaldi's aim—a united Italy, 182;

Anita, 174, 175, 177;

charmed life, 168, 169;

power over his troops, 185;

life in South America, 175;

reckless courage, 171, 172;

refusal of throne, 181;

return to Italy, 175;

loyalty to Victor Emmanuel, 179;

victories, 181

Geography, The science of, 15

George, David Lloyd, 89

Geryon, 25

Gioberti, 38

Giotto, 7, 38

Gladstone, 180

Goethe, 27

Grant, General, 86

Great Remonstrance, The, 102

Gulf Stream, Influence of the, 163

Hallam the historian, 10

Hamilton, Alexander, 168, 178

Hamlet, 13

Hampden, John, 101, 104, 108, 123

Harrison, Frederic, 106, 209

Helen of Troy, 36, 37

Henry of Navarre, 103

History, The scope of,18

Hogarth, William, 145

Holland, 55, 56, 57, 59

Homer, 10, 11, 12, 13, 123

Horace, 136

House of Lords, The, 12

Hume, David, 145

Idylls of the King, 23

Imitation of Christ, 154

In Darkest England, 199

Inferno, The, 31, 32

Inquisition, The, 65, 74

Italian language, The, 11

Italian literature, 18

James I of England, 117

Jonson, Ben, 90, 117

Julius Cæsar, 86

Keats, John, 12

Kenilworth Castle, 96

King Alfred's Bible, 12

Kipling, Rudyard, 190

Kossuth, Louis, 178

Last Judgment, The, 27

Law's Serious Call, 154

Latin tongue, The, 11

Lecky the historian, 144, 155

Leonardo, 35

Leyden, Siege of, 77, 78, 79, 80

Lincoln, Abraham, 57, 58, 99, 102, 113, 182, 194

Lorenzo the Magnificent, 45, 46, 47

Lowell, James Russell, 31, 137, 140, 141

Lucifer, 25

Luther, Martin, 49, 54

Lycidas, 121

Macaulay, Lord, 116 117, 137, 138, 144

Macbeth, 13

Marlow, 90, 117

Marston Moor, Battle of, 103, 109

Martineau, James, 216

Mary Queen of Scots, 99

Massacre of St. Bartholomew, 74

Massinger, Philip, 118

"Mayflower, The," 115

Mazzini, 39, 166, 168, 170

Mæcenas, 36

Medici, The, 48

"Mermaid" Tavern, The, 116

Methodists, The early, 146

Methodism, world-wide sphere of, 162

Michelet, 183

Middle Ages, The, 26

Mill, John Stuart, 16

Milton, John, 16, 103,106, 112, 115, 116, 117, 119, 120, 129, 132, 138, 139, 140, 142, 216;

and his studies, 120, 121;

at Cambridge, 120;

made Secretary of State, 133

Milton's belief in himself, 121;

fight for relationships, 126;

pamphlets, 131;

views on divorce, 126, 127

Mirandola, Picadella, 44, 45

Modern world, The dawn of, 37, 38

Monte Rosa, 13

Moravians, The, 155

Morley, John, 111

Morley's Life of Gladstone, 156

Morris, William, 196

Napoleon, 103, 164

Naseby, Battle of, 109

Nelson, Lord, 146

Newton, Sir Isaac, 200

Othello, 13

Paradise, 26, 28

Paradise Lost, 123, 136, 139

Paradise Regained, 123

Pattison, Mark, 129

Paul II, 41

Penelope, 36, 37

Pericles, 37

Peter the Hermit, 49

Petrarch, 34

Philip II of Spain, 56, 57, 61, 63, 65, 68, 69, 70, 74

Phillips, Wendell, 90, 158

Pius II, 41

Pilgrim's Progress, The, 85

Pitt, William, 144, 146

Plato, 45

Pope, Alexander, 16

Prince Djem, 51

Prince Rupert, 109, 111

Priors of Florence, The, 16

Purgatory, 25, 29, 30, 32

Puritanism, 142

Puritans, The, 138, 139

Pym, John, 101, 108, 123

Queen Victoria, 180, 191

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 103

Raphael, 11, 21, 112, 123

Ravenna, 32

"Renaissance, The Morning Star of," 10

Renaissance, The, 35

Restoration, The, 135

Revival of learning, The, 34

Richelieu, 144

Ring and the Book, The, 39

Rodin's Thinker, 191

Rome, 35, 41, 51, 216

Romola, 39

Ruskin, John, 57, 190, 192, 193, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 203, 205, 206, 207, 208, 210, 211, 213, 214, 215, 216;

and social reform, 194;

books of his childhood, 207;

world's debt to, 205

Savonarola, 37, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 46, 49, 51, 53, 84

Shakespeare, 10, 11, 13, 90, 117, 141

Shelley, 141

Socrates, 50, 84

St. Peter's Cathedral, 15

Story of the Dutch Republic, Motley's, 39

Swammerdam, 216

Tasso, 99

Taylor's Purity of Intention, 154

Tennyson, 106, 115

Torquemada, 64

Toynbee, Arnold, 197, 198

Truth, Sojourner, 202, 203

Turner, J. W., 205

Tyndale, William, 54

Ulysses, 13, 36, 37

Venice, 55

Verona, Bishop of, 53

Virgil, 24, 29

Vita Nuova, 21

Voltaire, 26, 115

Walpole, Horace, 145, 151

Washington, George, 99, 102, 113, 143, 168, 182

Webster, Daniel, 103, 178, 212

Wellington, Duke of, 146

Wesley, Charles, 147, 148

Wesley, John, 143, 144, 145, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164;

at Oxford, 154;

growth of followers, 143;

Journal of, 150, 153;

labours of, 100, 152, 153, 156, 157;

last words of, 164;

liberality of, 161;

moral courage of, 157;

persecution of, 158;

personal traits, 159;

plan for world evangelization, 162

Wesley, Samuel, 153

Wesley, Susannah, 153

Whitefield, George, 147, 148, 149, 155

Wilberforce, William, 194

William the Silent, 56, 57, 59, 61, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 76, 77, 80, 82

Wordsworth, William, 200

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Transcriber's Note

Hyphenation inconsistencies left as in the original

Obvious punctuation and spelling errors repaired

Pg 84: "...the path the heroes' trod." to "...the path the heroes trod."

Pg 156: Removed extraneous blank line from August 23, 1733 journal entry

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