Show A CLASSICAL ESSAY I 1 the th colloy following ing Is 13 the opening and the closing chapter of 0 an essay say some historic ile women written by a sait palt lake school gh alil I 1 the beauty and power of 0 it are both merv elou ir HISTORIC WOMEN the influence of 0 women on an the world since the first creation la Is beyond the pou power c r of worda orda to describe but ill there ore or arc some women whose achievements hale hac been at 0 so extraordinary a character ter abose beauty has haa been so BO perfect whose charm rn io cam complete 1 1 c 11 whose hose ill ambition n so eo unbounded IN whose 1 mental qualities so vond wonderful erful or who in ili bestowing ato ing their v comans tenderness not upon the ionic homo but upon humanity have compiled compelled the anti ancl enlisted the merest interest of all mankind in looking back at the sh shadowy adolay figures tl Kires of 0 dead clead sears it Is very hard to single out it a few from their inspiring ranks each dach figure lis has its own oin peculiar las which will 1111 last I it a as long lone as men are stirred by the greatness and self abnegation of other men nod and which increased ay as the lemour of tile the past wipes out all that Is unlovely or petty or unworthy carthy and lends ends an added glory to coall 1 1 11 noble we jul judge g e the men nod and women of the past moie innie gene r and mercifully than hov juiced by men and women of their day IN I 1 e forget many of their faults in looking hack back at their on and the obstacles they overcame 0 N wo c see many virtues which were hidden front from taci those e who nho lived and moved about them it I 1 will III be so with those who he are great today future generations will lose sight or of the little aitla we who live among them see and will remember only what ahat is go rood 1 d it Is a most blessed thing that 1111 ahls 4 Is so BO that the c ell influences ces or of ol 01 ver men hao halo little over those is e who come after them while N bile the inspiration of ahat is truly good increases with the years it 1 Is the good deed that thai through the ages aces ladrig in historic pages brighter glows one find gl earris immortal imin ortal by moth or rust I 1 hane hac been influenced to say this because I 1 have not chosen good women alone lot for the subject of this paper but it has been the good women and not the women momen who ho used their power for evil ell who aho have sweed me as I 1 read their 1111 A and oil of those these women the first Is that tits t heroic figure whom born all france idolizes the mald maid of orleans joan of arc rc reared in the little tillage of 0 dom remy she grew strong in body as she tended her fat fathers tiers sheep in the forest and thoughtful in mind as she listened to her mothers religious teaching and sat rat dreaming in her little garden under the shadow of the village church she was EL a vigorous energetic child but buo as she grew into womanhood she became more fond of solitude anti and even more religiously inclined she phe was quite uneducated not even knox knotting lna how to read and write she lie was MAR shy find and re thing quiet most obedient to her parents gentle nod and sym with aith every one slip she nursed the sick of tile the little village I 1 with a tender care and was beloved by all who nho know knew her yet she must have felt ean in her childhood the certainty that she was in many waa superior to thos among I 1 w horn born she phe lived it li is impossible to believe that her soul was not stirred by the that later on stirred france added to her intense religions enthusiasm was an intense patriotism engendered doubtless by the fact that her native milage il lage lying as it did partly in lorraine Lorral nc and partly y in fit champagne had been a prey to both sides avid and had felt most severely the horror tit of the long wars are these suffer ln g of her people must hue haie moved her ho r in much u ch in her long meditations and led her to feel the need of 0 a deliverer for france there was something t ng too that led her to believe ber herself elf that deliverer this m nas a legend cg c n d that bat t out nut of lorraine lorrain out nut of 18 the the forests of dom dam remy should come a maiden to save france she was a maiden of lorraine Loir alne of the th forests forest of remy she hc was different from the rills efi la about her and she ho lovei loved france anost intensely the deliverer of at france ranc could bo be none non other than she eh little lie johanette hanette Je and on one summer cummer in fast dclay day the thought 4 and dreams grew to a 0 vision and in the d dazzling sunlit sun lit noon a little troop of angels I 1 camp to hr her in her little garden and tho foremost said eald jeanne go to 10 the succor bulc or of the tit king of fiance and thou their malt restore his kingdom to 10 him FIght cried site phe replied that she was hut but rl a simple girl and knew riot not how to load men at arnis arms she use mas told to go to M de dc Band ricourt end and lie he would mould conduct her to the kins king and it was van then she said that Po courage urage and tiie ihfe pity for the kingdom of frince france came to her ter it was iraq five this that she tit at last set out to 10 deliver orleans and crown the th king and till nil flits time eh she was urged by the visions vision alch which he band 5 end s a doubt were real to her bile bho did not wish to 10 go she thought of no glory for herself from her undertaking end and she said she would much prefer r to stay stav at home an ami sew by her mothers side aide but to her it inq wa a duty a task set by heaven N alth till I 1 chich aich nothing not noi oven cven the opposition il n or of her parents mut mu lost t interfere and athe he met I 1 elih ill opposition orpo sillon indeed it I 1 ns its alth the greatest gregloit gre aloit thit ihil sit sha finally persuaded persua dd her uncle to take lake her to the sire do Band ricourt by her ber arm belief in lir her visions and her confidence in hi herself as one sent by heaven she convinced the sire do Iland ricourt she convinced other oiher gentlemen ho he offered to conduct her to tho the king and finally after chinon site she convinced tho the kins king himself f on oil her way to the kins king though in the midst of polite trav traveling Ming through at a country bet beset by troops of n 1 I and od vagabonds vagabond she displayed no fear when slid nas admitted to the king he be stood among a of no nobles bles curious carious to see if 11 she would lec logozo him without hesitation she h walked straight to him and addressed I 1 him as dauphin for he had not bet et boon been crowned king jink almost immediately after her arrival an incident took place which further established the confidence which was now in ill her A men man at arms arma thought her pretty and expressed himself with an oath alai thou blaspheme st thy god and I 1 yet thou art so near thy boeth joani jonn exclaimed soon after he fell into the river and was drowned joan urged that there might be no delay in setting selling out to relieve the siege of orleans the queen mother fiorre her and a committee of doctors re rc toi Io boitel toil itel that her professions wore were in no w oke ise contrary to the faith A horse still and a suit of armor were given her she a which she sh slid said was wa hidden behind the altar in the I 1 church of st SL catherine tile the I 1 was found and gh glan ell to her an I 1 arhe he designed EL a banner embr with lilies slid and having a inn of I 1 red god holding the world in his ha hind n rl I 1 this she said she boned even better belter than hr her sword at dinst st at out to in rollee the th siege of orleans oi leans ohp dougli Bold sold ler lers were ent obedient to this eighteen year old girl she enter efterpi pI orleans oilcans and was nas irce ived w aith ith great rejoicing the people regarded her as a saint a prophets prop hetes the savior of france and flocked about her anxious even to touch her horse boric she supplied ta I 1 dearmy of france just what it needed an unraveling confidence con dence and a unity of purpose sol 01 ol were not lacking gene generals brals mere not lacking but among the G garil norleiv was it a want nant of decision and the failure to agree upon a definite nite plan join sent word to the english ato to leave france telling them that bat it mis was thip lIl 0 god that they should do doy P ali lip of 0 they refused to doi itna gnan l an attack upon the bancil q ab she herself perfectly fearless arlesa ff ly i courageous courageous having not the slightest doubt as to the outcome Tut come led the tais aa i sault the english fearing derai au 1 pe were panic stricken the ardor of the fro french ell inspired by their belief in her absolu absolute to power was no irresistible sis tible the baptise was taken and tile faith of the men at arms in joan was mas greater than before she viewed great pity tor for the wounded 1 and n ris for tile the french she wild said i 1 never bee a frenchmans French mans mins blood but my hair stands up on my head soon after another bastile lia stlla aa was attacked anti and joan loading leading her forces was vins wounded in ili tile the neck the anew stuck out nut some distance behind hut but I 1 joan bravely pulled it out had ili iad 1 at mound dressed N with fh oil and after resting awhile anhilo rallied her men and it they I took look the hostile at a bound the ln glibly kl withdrew and the th siege of orleans ori I 1 was raised now joan directed lier her energies to haink the kiny king I 1 cro cloned crooned ned at with nith the lacto iloda mald maid of orleans organs and her ter standard that thai had not acl el known defeat I 1 near him h he was crowned kin izing of of arance to deliver orleans to crown the king these were the tasks task ti which it vas aas clear to joan heaven had set her ber about the success or of these two enterprises terp rises she had no doubt she ah wa va certain that no defeat could come to 10 her ter but aith ith tile the completion of I 1 sell achievements C e jants this his absolute certainly cert imly to of I 1 victory r vanished she waa as sure that i the english must be driven front from france but herself lot doubt I 1 about the outcome of certain battles battle in the slag or of Compel gric 1 having tilli lini lingered too long out outside side the gates gaies righting I 1 lie aias tak taken n prisoner goner by lh lip I 1 Burgun diana then cumo crime thu that trial riot it a nillah v alch disgraced her crip captors tors mid held behind closed doors one day with one set I 1 of inquisitors Inqui the next u with ith others A trial in n which riot not only mercy hut ait the hie bliest ju jull tice cc nelc forgotten for arid judice and malice ruled in their mead every question that thai could be asked to entangle a who in her i was waa little more than llian a chill was nas asked sire she answered what ahe he could I 1 w ach a ard directness those thoc slit felt fell they had no right to ask she would not answer she was waa first I 1 condemned to life hocur imprisonment I 1 but this did not satisfy the english valle ahe lived she fhe was uns a menace to I 1 them there was always the cnancy I 1 that she might escape for she hal bad effected more wonderful things than that there was but one uny ay to lo dc stoy the iho 1 influence she bowed aed over the iho ile people p e that I 1 may ny v was as to put her to death I 1 and she was axas sentenced to bo be b burned arned i at the stake flake I 1 in all her life there Is nothing pal betle nothing that Is so humin alli I 1 so touches one cis as her cry whan uhan her doom was told her 0 0 I 1 would mould seven i times rather be bp headd than lian burned in their cruelty cruelly th they 7 ll 11 had 1 I I 1 chosen for her tile the ha death we e can understand how the of oc the agony and torture before her must have terrified ned her in her loneliness there uns no family no lie friend near ivear her to in comfort her hr r nor her country end and her king even her church ei to have forgotten her and yet she went most bravely to in the terrible death that i awaited hor her at the th foot of tal stake I 1 she knelt down anti and begged for a cross an englishman fashioned one for hoti out of two ticks of wood yit irit site I 1 add that the crops in the hutch or of I 1 st sauveur be brought and thit they t would hold held it up right before lier her eyes I 1 till the coming or of death cleath in orl r that flit the cross whereon onn god luing lung ml maht ht as a 11 title she lived ho be continually in her sight even in the agony of hr terrible death camp cam a cry of pity for fir the th country she sh so loved rouen houn bouen sherald phe she sald Is it here that I 1 must die shall thon their be my last resting place I 1 fear greatly anu thou wilt have to suffer for my drain death when the names flames bogan to rise she bogged her confessor to po go don 60 n the crow ds surrounding her were overcome by terror at what they had done clone by a pity that came too late ate for the he courageous figure piling up lift lot life so fro bravely even the men who nho sentenced hr her were rom moed tod to tears leara and the erp tary of king henry said we a ar all lost I 1 we e have burn burned burneda e d a a saint and so indeed they had ha d a saint a patriot a martyr A shy boung girl in whose rhose innocent heart was A most 1 heroic courage coura ep a most unwavering faith and a most unselfish devotion to 1 her ter country and her hf r king this wax i no heretic no sorceress to the last her trust never wavered in vered what she had done she had bad done through tire the will or of ond god for it aas as not nol her condition to bi be a warrior marrior she ehe said and death must hane hae been beef toaster easier to her since hor her eon con iodence in h hor visions never left her she lint had sought no personal renown or glory kford or itches ilc liPa yet yd through the terrible l death hr her enemies inflicted on lier her j and nd the entrago that inspired Inspire I a timid girl to moot meet it with the serene face of I 1 a saint came undying und Hiff tame fame and bau boundless bound lees rame reverence vere nep to frenchmen she haf in fit more than humin barium and upon the lilb tory of nf their country she a pate unselfish rad radiance lance about aboul her is iff the halo which table chatag coin coa tag ape self abnegation ani and clat and chewill she will liv alvo e as lom long is IH inert arp are moved by tales to of r glorious or donds deeds a radiant figure the th characters of catherine do 1 medicis and catherine of russia ore are portrayed and then the essay closes with till tile the fol following loing dut but wo we turn from these figures to lo the sweetest woman who the has bas ever the world with her inexhaustible charity to florence Floie nightingale who stands elands the noblest type of 0 the horld orld has knonk thi the A ery cry sound of 0 her name makes better men and v vompa 0 men of us ua and the thought of her ber beautiful life brings us nearer I 1 10 0 the st if ferIng humanity about us it r ough the he remembrance of 0 the pain anti and u weariness carine sn she softened by her love she aa born in florence italy and passed parsed a beautiful protected girlhood surrounded by all that wealth and love could ghe el c hr let she was waa carefully educated by her father and through travel proficiency in foreign langu languages aces the most of her life anas aa spent dl at tho the family horn hoine jn in dorby derby mille it a conely place called lea ila I 1 bt arven in her childhood she shon showed 0 d that tender pity for all suffering till as that made her life an unbroken benediction all living creatures seemed to know and love her there ab nas no animal hoi however Never eliy and timid at the ap approach of others that feared her after her 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