Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great MusiciansHubbard, Elbert
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Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
Hubbard, Elbert
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Periodicity, v, 183.
Peripatetic School, the, viii, 105.
Perquisites, legitimate, v, 44.
Persecution, ii, 194;
religious, Tolstoy on, ix, 181;
uses of, ix, 132.
Personal charm, ix, 103.
Personality, iv, 193; v, 183; vi, 61; vii, 314;
of the true artist, vi, 178.
Perugino, iv, 28; vi, 21;
Raphael and, vi, 24.
Pessimism, philosophy of, viii, 363.
Pestalozzi, and Froebel, x, 252;
Jean Jacques Rousseau and, x, 252.
_Peter Pan_, James Barrie, xiii, 11.
Petrarch, Boccaccio and, xiii, 232;
James Colonna and, xiii, 220;
the founder of humanism, xiii, 241;
place in literature, xiii, 209.
Petroleum, composition of, xi, 385.
_Phaedo_, Plato, ii, 195.
Phalanstery, the, iii, p xi; viii, 412.
Pharaoh, ii, 56.
Pharisee ism, ii, 196.
Pharsalia, battle of, vii, 57.
Phidias, sculptor, reference to, i, 122; vii, 26.
Philadelphia lawyers, vi, 306.
Philanthropic spirit, the, xi, 327.
Philip II, King of Spain, policy of, iv, 81, 93;
Spain under the rule of, vi, 171.
Philip III of Spain, court of, vi, 172.
Philip IV, paintings of, by Velasquez, vi, 173.
Philippe, King of France, ii, 83.
Philippics of Cicero, the, vii, 56.
_Philistine, The_, founding of, i, p xx.
Philistinism, ii, 227, 237.
Phillips, Wendell, abolitionist, character of, vii, 386;
Ben Butler and, vii, 388;
William Lloyd Garrison and, vii, 394;
Ann Terry Greene, vii, 398;
his Faneuil Hall speech, vii, 406;
advice to oratorical aspirants, ix, 257;
Emerson on, vii, 413;
on Emerson, xiii, 171;
Elbert Hubbard and, vii, 410;
_The Lost Arts_, vii, 328;
quoted, vi, 273;
referred to, iii, 271; vi, 41, 148; vii, 252, 287; xi, 258;
Charles Sumner and, vii, 399.
_Philosophical Dictionary, The_, Voltaire, i, 205; viii, 274; xi, 106.
Philosophy, definition of, viii, 201;
of the future, viii, 104;
marriage and, viii, 251;
of pessimism, viii, 363.
Photography, ii, 130.
Phrenology, i, 160.
Physicians, liberality of, iii, 81.
Piacenza, Donna Giovanni, abbess of San Paola Convent, Parma, vi, 230.
Piccadilly, i, 57;
bus-drivers of, vi, 257.
_Pieta_, Michelangelo, iv, 19.
Pigot, John, and Byron, v, 214.
"Pig Poetry," i, 71.
_Pilgrims' Chorus_, Wagner, iv, 262; v, 267.
Pilsen, the Prince of, xiii, 315.
Pinkerton Guards, iii, 114.
Pinturicchio, companion of Raphael, vi, 26.
"Pious Wax-works," i, 135.
_Pippa Passes_, Browning, v, 56;
quotation from, iii, 264.
Pitti Gallery, the, iv, 101; vi, 27.
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, vii, 185; ix, 164;
Burke on, vii, 186;
Disraeli and, v, 331;
extravagance of, vii, 204;
George III and, vii, 200;
Madame de Stael and, vii, 202;
Daniel Webster compared with, iii, 204;
Wilberforce and, vii, 204.
Pity for the dead, v, 87.
Pius IV, Pope, iv, 35.
Pius V, Pope, iv, 35.
Pius IX, Pope, ix, 93;
on Darwinism, xii, 228.
Pivotal Points, law of, x, 308.
Plagues of Egypt, x, 36.
Plain living and high thinking, ii, 285.
Plantins, of Antwerp, iv, 55.
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