Excerpt from Women of Beauty and Heroism: From Semiramis to Eugenie; A Portrait Gallery of Female Loveliness, Achievement and Influence In Syria under the name of Berceto, and widely respected for her chastity, had the misfortune to displease that most irritable divinity, Venus, who straightway resolved on vengeance. The catalogue of ways and means in her possession seems to have been, in every system of mythology, exceedingly limited and it is not surprising to find the Assyrian Venus resorting, in the poverty of her ...
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Excerpt from Women of Beauty and Heroism: From Semiramis to Eugenie; A Portrait Gallery of Female Loveliness, Achievement and Influence In Syria under the name of Berceto, and widely respected for her chastity, had the misfortune to displease that most irritable divinity, Venus, who straightway resolved on vengeance. The catalogue of ways and means in her possession seems to have been, in every system of mythology, exceedingly limited and it is not surprising to find the Assyrian Venus resorting, in the poverty of her resources, to the universal and infallible passion - Love thus setting the example to which the Venus of Paphos afterwards so consistently adhered. Berceto loved, and not wisely she gave birth to a female infant, which she abandoned upon the deserts of Ascalon; then, obeying an impulse which seems to have been usual in these guilty legendary mothers, she slew her betrayer, and threw herself headlong into a lake. The eter-nal fitness of things is beautifully consulted in the disposition made of her by the fable - she was changed, either by assimila tion or metempsychosis, into a fish. Now, fish are cold-blooded, as every one knows, and being oviparous, leave their young to take care of themselves. The legend, having thus given to the parent an integument consistent with her nature, returns to the deserted babe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Very Good. New York: Derby & Jackson. (400 pp. ) [19] leaves of plates: ill. 29 cm. Folio. Leather bound. Fully restored, with repairs to binding, spine and boards, and weather treatment lacquer applied to cover. Fully bound in beautiful crimson pigmented calf-skin leather with ornately blind-embossed, patterned boards. Borders consist of intricate, interwoven gilt lines. 5 raised bands. 6 compartments. Gilt decorative flourishes within compartments. Title stamp on upper spine. Tight binding and solid boards. Minimal shelf wear. Slight bumping to corners. Minor scuffing to edges. Visible cracks along upper spine connoting where repairs have been made. Light sunning to edges of spine. Gilt borders inside boards. Multi-colored swirl design on endpapers. Dark brown repair tape has been applied to gutters. Minor damp-stain to FFEP. Slight darkening to spots on preliminary pages leading to title page. Slight, minimal splotching throughout volume. Minor damp-staining to lower corner of pages 123 through 130. Frontispiece is a steel-plate engraved black and white portrait of Semiramis. 18 additional engravings are included within the volume. This gorgeous and interesting compilation, published in 1858 by Derby and Jackson brings together some of history's most significant females, including such figures as Joan of Arc, Anne Boleyn, and Pocahontas. Biographies are provided, as well as excerpts from poetry and classic literature. An exceptional addition to the library of any historian. Please feel free to view our photographs of this lovely volume. Ships daily.
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