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Title: Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8
A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more
than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

Author: Various

Editor: Charles F. Horne

Release Date: August 27, 2008 [EBook #26423]

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GREAT MEN AND FAMOUS WOMEN

_A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of_

THE LIVES OF MORE THAN 200 OF THE MOST PROMINENT PERSONAGES IN HISTORY

VOL. III.

Copyright, 1894, BY SELMAR HESS

edited by Charles F. Horne

[Illustration: Publisher's arm.]

New-York: Selmar Hess Publisher

Copyright, 1894, by SELMAR HESS.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III.

SUBJECT AUTHOR PAGE

ALFRED THE GREAT, _Sir J. Bernard Burke, LL.D._, 101
ST. AMBROSE, _Rev. A. Lambing, LL.D._, 68
ARCHIMEDES, _John Timbs, F.S.A._, 59
ARISTOTLE, _Fenelon_, 54
ST. AUGUSTINE OF
CANTERBURY, _Rt. Rev. Henry Codman Potter_, 88
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, _James, Cardinal Gibbons_, 73
FRANCIS BACON, _Hon. Ignatius Donnelly_, 154
WILLIAM BRADFORD, _Elbridge S. Brooks_, 172
AUGUSTUS CAESAR, 66
JOHN CALVIN, 140
CHARLES I. OF ENGLAND,