Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 549
modern Italy and the conditions of a changedworld. Each of these was a man in whose handthe pen was mightier than the sword, and all 536 ABOUT OLD INK-STANDS. four ink-stands were part of the equipment withwhich they changed or directed the historyof the world. Before their time was the age of … CAVOUR S INK-STAND. the sword — the age that was coming to anend when Charles the Great (Carolus Magnus,or Charlemagne) kept his writing-tabletsunder his pillow in order that at odd moments he might practise the art he found so muchharder than conquering his neighbors. ForCharlemagne never could…
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