Miscellaneous Essays
Publisher Description
This book is the collection of different type of essay. It is a historical book. What is to be thought of her? What is to be thought of the poor shepherd girl from the hills and forests of Lorraine, that--like the Hebrew shepherd boy from the hills and forests of Judaea--rose suddenly out of the quiet, out of the safety, out of the religious inspiration, rooted in deep pastoral solitudes, to a station in the van of armies, and to the more perilous station at the right hand of kings? The Hebrew boy inaugurated his patriotic mission by an act, by a victorious act, such as no man could deny. But so did the girl of Lorraine, if we read her story as it was read by those who saw her nearest.
More Books by Thomas De Quincey
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
1859
Les Derniers Jours d’Emmanuel Kant
2013
Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
1859
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
1859
Something Wicked: 560+ Horror Classics, Macabre Tales & Supernatural Mysteries
2018
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
1859