Steam nancy drew the captive curse12/17/2023 Without dwelling upon their achievements, Plutarch, with a trifling incident, a simple word or an innocent jest, showed the virtues and failings of his subject. And these were given to the world before the first rosy dawn of modern civilization had risen to the horizon. Hubbard’s Little Journeys to the homes of these men and women have not been equaled since Plutarch wrote his forty-six parallel lives of the Greeks and Romans. Through him, the ideas, the deeds, the achievements of these immortals have been given to the living present and will be sent echoing down the centuries. In all there are one hundred eighty Little Journeys that take us to the homes of the men and women who transformed the thought of their time, changed the course of empire, and marked the destiny of civilization. These little gems have been accepted as classics and will live. In Eighteen Hundred Ninety-four, the series of Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great was begun, and once a month for fourteen years, without a break, one of these little pilgrimages was given to the world. But the children of his fertile brain still live and will continue to live and keep fresh the memory of their illustrious forebear.įourteen years were consumed in the preparation of the work that ranks today as Elbert Hubbard’s masterpiece. This online edition was created and published by Global Grey on the 5th November 2022.Įlbert Hubbard is dead, or should we say, has gone on his last Little Journey to the Great Beyond. This edition was originally published in 1916. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great
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