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Title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers

Author: Elbert Hubbard

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Language: English

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LITTLE JOURNEYS TO THE HOMES OF THE GREAT, VOLUME 13

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers

by

ELBERT HUBBARD

Memorial Edition

New York

1916.

CONTENTS

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AND FANNY OSBOURNE
JOSIAH AND SARAH WEDGWOOD
WILLIAM GODWIN AND MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
DANTE AND BEATRICE
JOHN STUART MILL AND HARRIET TAYLOR
PARNELL AND KITTY O'SHEA
PETRARCH AND LAURA
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI AND ELIZABETH ELEANOR SIDDAL
BALZAC AND MADAME HANSKA
FENELON AND MADAME GUYON
FERDINAND LASSALLE AND HELENE VON DONNIGES
LORD NELSON AND LADY HAMILTON

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON AND FANNY OSBOURNE

We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love that
unites us; for the peace accorded us this day; for the hope with
which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food, and
the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in
all parts of the earth, and our friendly helpers in this foreign
isle. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our
friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all
our innocent endeavors. If it may not, give us the strength to
encounter that which is to come, that we be brave in peril, constant
in tribulation, temperate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune,
and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving one to another.

--_Vailima Prayers_

[Illustration: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON]

There is a libel leveled at the Scotch and encouraged, I am very sorry
to say, by Chauncey Depew, when he told of approac