ISBN: 1236302893

[EAN: 9781236302892], Neubuch, DAVID STARR JORDAN,HISTORY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download … Plus…

[EAN: 9781236302892], Neubuch, DAVID STARR JORDAN,HISTORY, This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: . . . umr. -. -m 1913H Felix Moscheles From an account in the Manchester Guardian written after Moscheles death in 1920, I learn that a visit to Paris in 1871 after the Commune bit deeply into this sensitive and generous mind the horrors of warfare, and from that time onward Moscheles was one of the most active spirits in the international peace movement. He succeeded Hodgson Pratt as president of the International Arbitration and Peace Association. Henry Richard, Hodgson Pratt, and Spence Madsen were, like Cobden and Bright before them, pure Englishmen, strong with the strength of personal integrity and ardour, but easily distinguishable from the Continental apostles of the peace idea by their coloring of political, economic, and religious liberalism. The International Peace Day Celebration was devised by Moscheles. For years his large studio in Chelsea, littered with his own and his wifes canvases, family treasures, and the jetsam of travel, was the scene of gatherings of this kind. Here foreign statesmen flying across the world, missionaries of inconceivable creeds, beetle-browed revolutionaries, great singers and pianists, poets, inventors of new languages, all sorts of forceful men and beautiful women, were to be met. One of the most interesting products of his brush is a speaking portrait of his friend Mazzini, whose struggles in the cause of freedom profoundly stirred the emotions. His declining years were darkened by Gloomy the war--which seemed likely to submerge a whole clou life work! His intimate friend, Emily Hobhouse, to no1tr, , whom I shall again refer, wrote me as follows: Ordinarily death at eighty-five should not be sad, but with him it was too long a life, for he had lived to see, as he believed, the destruction of his life work, and not lon. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

2012, ISBN: 1236302893

[EAN: 9781236302892], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers c… Plus…

[EAN: 9781236302892], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: .umr.-.-m 1913H Felix Moscheles From an account in the Manchester Guardian written after Moscheles' death in 1920, I learn that a visit to Paris in 1871 after the Commune bit deeply into this sensitive and generous mind the horrors of warfare, and from that time onward Moscheles was one of the most active spirits in the international peace movement. He succeeded Hodgson Pratt as president of the International Arbitration and Peace Association. Henry Richard, Hodgson Pratt, and Spence Madsen were, like Cobden and Bright before them, pure Englishmen, strong with the strength of personal integrity and ardour, but easily distinguishable from the Continental apostles of the peace idea by their coloring of political, economic, and religious liberalism. The International Peace Day Celebration was devised by Moscheles. For years his large studio in Chelsea, littered with his own and his wife's canvases, family treasures, and the jetsam of travel, was the scene of gatherings of this kind. Here foreign statesmen flying across the world, missionaries of inconceivable creeds, beetle-browed revolutionaries, great singers and pianists, poets, inventors of new languages, all sorts of forceful men and beautiful women, were to be met. One of the most interesting products of his brush is a speaking portrait of his friend Mazzini, whose struggles in the cause of freedom profoundly stirred the emotions. His declining years were darkened by Gloomy the war--which seemed likely to submerge a whole clou' life work! His intimate friend, Emily Hobhouse, to no1tr/, /, whom I shall again refer, wrote me as follows: Ordinarily death at eighty-five should not be sad, but with him it was too long a life, for he had lived to see, as he believed, the destruction of his life work, and not lon.<

ISBN: 9781236302892

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