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Heroes of the Telegraph
Heroes of the Telegraph
by J. Munro
PREFACE.
The present work is in some respects a sequel to the PIONEERS OF
ELECTRICITY, and it deals with the lives and principal achievement ...
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Heroes and Hero Worship
ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP, AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY
By Thomas Carlyle
CONTENTS.
I. THE HERO AS DIVINITY. ODIN. PAGANISM: SCANDINAVIAN MYTHOLOGY.
II. THE HERO AS PROPHET. MAHOME ...
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Herodias
Herodias
by Gustave Flaubert
CHAPTER I
In the eastern side of the Dead Sea rose the citadel of Machaerus. It was built upon a conical peak of basalt, and was surrounded by four deep ...
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Hero Tales From American History
Hero Tales From American History
by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt
Hence it is that the fathers of these men and ours also, and they themselves likewise, being nurtured ...