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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Renan, v, 150;
on Marcus Aurelius, viii, 131;
on St. Benedict, x, 322;
on Christianity, x, 135;
on flowers, xiv, 193;
on the Israelitish exodus, x, 38;
quoted, iv, 165;
on religion, ii, 78;
on Seneca, viii, 80;
and his sister, ii, 115;
on Spinoza, viii, 229.
Renter, the, ix, 82.
Representative government, v, 185.
Repression, v, 235.
_Republic_ of Plato, viii, 33, 105, 221; x, 98, 117.
Reserve, v, 335.
Resiliency, x, 374.
Responsibility, v, 176; vi, 174; xi, 407.
_Resurrection, The_, Perugino, vi, 27.
Revere, Paul, iii, 104, 116, 222.
Reversion to type, law of, ii, 192.
_Revolution of the Heavenly Bodies, The_, Copernicus, xii, 117.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, iv, 114; xii, 179;
birthplace of, iv, 287;
parents of, iv, 288;
early training of, iv, 290;
pupil of Hudson, iv, 291;
travels of, iv, 295;
popularity of, iv, 297;
vogue of, iv, 298;
his specialty, iv, 303;
American sympathies of, iv, 305;
president of the Royal Academy, iv, 305;
death of, iv, 307;
fortune of, iv, 307;
appearance of, iv, 293;
Edmund Burke and, vii, 160, 174;
Gainsborough compared with, iv, 287;
on Gainsborough, vi, 128;
genius of, iv, 329;
Samuel Johnson and, v, 169; vi, 28;
Raphael compared with, iv, 303;
on Titian, iv, 146;
Turner and, i, 140;
on Velasquez, vi, 158.
Rhetoric, W. D. Howells on, vi, 187;
the study of, x, 143, 273.
Rhode Island Historical Society, vi, 95.
_Richard III_, Shakespeare, i, 317.
Richardson, Samuel, English novelist, i, 291;
father of the English novel, vi, 148;
_Clarissa Harlowe_, iv, 302;
_Theory of Painting_, iv, 289.
Richelieu, Cardinal, Chieppo compared with, iv, 98;
Archbishop Laud compared with, ix, 328;
Olivarez and, vi, 180.
Riches and roguery, xi, 304.
Richter, Gustav, German painter, iv, 52.
Richter, Jean Paul, xiv, 111.
Rickman, Thomas, friend of Thomas Paine, ix, 174.
_Riddle of the Universe, The_, Haeckel, xii, 249.
Righteousness, v, 315.
Rights of the individual, v, 205.
_Rights of Man, The_, Thomas Paine, ix, 157, 159, 174.
_Rights of Woman, The_, Mary Wollstonecraft, xiii, 85.
_Rigoletto_, Verdi, xiv, 292.
Riley, James Whitcomb, childhood impressions of, iv, 341; vii, 13;
nomination of, for U. S. president, ix, 80.
_Rinaldo_, Handel, xiv, 257.
_Ring and the Book, The_, Browning, v, 65.
Ripley, Rev. George, organizer of the Brook Farm Community, viii, 402.
Roberts, John E., ix, 283.
Robespierre, ii, 265;
Marat and, vii, 224;
Thomas Paine and, ix, 178.
Robinson, Beverly, iii, 19.
Robinson, Crabb, ii, 23.
_Robinson Crusoe_, Heinrich Campe's translation of, xii, 130.
Rob Roy and Byron compared, v, 221.
Rochambeau, quoted, iii, 27.
Rochester, poet, contemporary of Addison, v, 249.
Rockefeller, John D., xi, 373;
Edison compared with, i, 330.
Rodin, Auguste, ix, 198.
Roentgen ray, ii, 169; viii, 359.
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