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Title: Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Savage, Charles C., 1820-1907
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: Buffalo, Phinney & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ch-ir£e of sorcery. She resolutely defended herself fromthe absurd accusation, and was carried to the st-ike, where with dauntless cour-age she met her disastrous fate, on the 20th of Mav, 1431. Thus died this extraordinary maiden, at. the early age of twenty-nine years,to whom, Hume justly observed, the more liberal and generous superstitionsof the ancients would have erected altars.* This last tragedy in the drama ofher wonderful career, is an eternal stigma, not only upon the two nations im-mediately concerned, but upon the age in which she lived; and the actors inthe scene, however much they may be robed in sacerdotal dignity and rever-ence, should receive the execrations of the good in all ages, as fit brethren forthe Neros and Caligulas of ancient Rome. Twenty years afterward her mother demanded and obtained a reversal ofher sentence, and by the bishop of Paris her character was fully cleared fromevery imputation of guilt of the crimes of which she was accused. JOAN OF ARC. 73
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Joan of Arc before her Accusers. 74 MOHAMMED II. MOHAMMED II. MOHAMMED II., the Turkish emperor, surnamed the Great and the Vic-torious, was born at Adrianople, in the year 1430, and was first called to theOthman throne in the thirteenth year of his age, by the voluntary abdicationof his father, Amurath II. But in the year following (1444), the welfare ofthe empire, which was menaced by the king of Hungary, recalled Amurathto the head of the army and of the government until the danger was over-past,when he again withdrew from public life. Four months after this second ab-dication, a revolt of the janizaries, and the warlike preparations of Christianprinces, apprized Amurath that the reins of empire had been confided to handsnot yet strong enough to guide them. Controlling, therefore, his desire forretirement, he resumed the sovereign power, and retained it until his death in1451. On both these occasions Mohammed resigned the supreme authorityinto his fathers hands without a murmur ; b

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