"Cromwell gave to each of his soldiers a pocket Bible, and when he hurled his regiments against the dapper and jaunty youths who made up the army of Prince Rupert, his troops went through the royalist army as a cannonball goes through a heap of eggshells." Old? Yes, but a bit stirring nevertheless.
It is a volume not only of biography but of moral and spiritual inspiration and of lasting help.--The Continent, Volume 53.
Hillis portrays are Savonarola, William the Silent, Cromwell, Milton, Wesley, and Garibaldi.
Among the other Great figures, Dr.
The stories are told very dramatically, beginning with Dante, the exile for his convictions, and ending with Ruskin, broken in health and scoffed at for his championship of the common people.
The eight chapters deal with as many heroic leaders from the thirteenth to twentieth centuries.
The premise on which he bases this 200-page book is that the extremely old-fashioned blood-and-steel heroism story is still the one to draw young people to the chimney-corner and inspire them with ideals of service.
Hillis\' new bottle.
The old wine loses nothing in Dr. "Cromwell gave to each of his soldiers a pocket Bible, and when he hurled his regiments against the dapper and jaunty youths who made up the army of Prince Rupert, his troops went through the royalist army as a cannonball goes through a heap of eggshells." Old? Yes, but a bit stirring nevertheless
