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Search term: nobility-of-character
"Vain, boastful and blundering, his ambition far exceeded his ability to realise them." Is this judgement of Mussolini realistic or too harsh?
... "Mussolini lacked all nobility of character, but he knew the Italians and how to make them serve him." The Archbishop of Canterbury declared ... highest tension all human energies and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
The French Revolution: Assess the view that the main cause of the French revolution was popular discontent.
... of purpose ... which make the statesman". Louis lacked the strength of character to control the nobility or even his wife, Marie Antoinette who spent hundreds of livres daily of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution
Not all Carnival: Arcangela Tarabotti and the Experience of Seventeenth-Century Venetian Women
... because of the restrictive access to education. The nobility of Venice was extremely protective of their ... of Eve and her subsequent deception of Adam places all the blame on the female character. Eve became responsible for the fall of man. The women of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Talleyrand: For the Love of France
... of character.# He was without a doubt, as Philip Dwyer states, "considered to be one of the most remarkable Agent-Generals of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
An analysis of Natalie Zemon Davis' interesting book "The Return of Martin Guerre".
... of Artigat with its principles, dethroning Catholicism. Magnifying the sociality further, the most individualistic quality of the tale appears; the peculiar cast of characters ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
The Effect Of Normanic Kingdoms
... with the Angle) elements of character which have produced, in Ireland and in Scotland, two schools of lyric poetry second ... of names--West Saxon, Angle, Danish, Norman, and French-Norman likewise, many of primaeval and heathen antiquity, many of high nobility ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
What was the historical significance of Voltaire's 'Candide' and it's relevance during the Enlightenment?
... will outline the philosophical theory of Pangloss, a character of the novel and ... of the army is full of evil, cruelty, and suffering. Powerful members of the nobility start wars, but common soldiers and subjects suffer the consequences. Neither side of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
A brief account of France's financial difficulties leading up to the First Revolution, as traced through several ministers of finance. (includes works consulted!)
... A man of weaker character, Louis XVI reinstated all of the parlements as advised by many of his ministers. Even though all of the ... not limited to Louis XIV's taming and domestication of the nobility--the immediate financial difficulties, and all the events ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution
Louis XIV, of France, in comparison with the Stuart Kings, of England.
... character led to the greatness of France, along with delegating authority to great economic and military leaders. The Stuart Kings possessed no foresight or character, many thought of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
The Bastille became the focus of the opening of the French Revolution. Why?
... characters arbitrarily so that the Bastille's reputation became notorious for the secretive and capricious way that citizens could be taken away by demand of ... of the Bastille, the political situation which had favored the nobility and disadvantaged 90% of ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > The French Revolution