Essay on my favorite historical figure in english
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Rani Lakshmi Bai was the queen of the princely state of Jhansi, which is located on the northern side of India. She was one of the most leading personalities of the first war of India's independence that started in 1857.She was born in 1828 Maharashtrian family at Kashi (now Varanasi).At a tender age of four, she lost her mother. As a result, the responsibility of raising her fell upon her father. While pursuing studies, she also took formal training in martial arts, which included horse riding, shooting and fencing.
In the year 1842, she got married to the Maharaja of Jhansi, Raja Gangadhar Rao Niwalkar.After the death of Gangadhar Rao,she took responsibility at an age of 18.
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Voltaire:
François-Marie Arouet, known to us as Voltaire, was one of the leading lights of the French Enlightenment in the 18th century. Besides philosophical works he also wrote several plays, poems, and works on history, science, religion, and different countries and peoples. He became famous in his own lifetime from his publications and looked to as the leading French intellectual, with a Europe-wide following, and has been immensely influential ever since.
François-Marie Arouet, known to us as Voltaire, was one of the leading lights of the French Enlightenment in the 18th century. Besides philosophical works he also wrote several plays, poems, and works on history, science, religion, and different countries and peoples. He became famous in his own lifetime from his publications and looked to as the leading French intellectual, with a Europe-wide following, and has been immensely influential ever since.Voltaire’s thinking was a mixture of reason, humanitarianism and cynicism. He deplored the senselessness of so much that he saw in religion, politics, and the general nature of humanity, but he always believed progress was possible and kept hoping for it. In his most famous work, Candide, he lampoons a recent philosophical theory he found ridiculous while leading the reader through a picaresque series of degradations and calamities, ending on a sober and unambitious precept: “We must cultivate our garden.”
François-Marie Arouet, known to us as Voltaire, was one of the leading lights of the French Enlightenment in the 18th century. Besides philosophical works he also wrote several plays, poems, and works on history, science, religion, and different countries and peoples. He became famous in his own lifetime from his publications and looked to as the leading French intellectual, with a Europe-wide following, and has been immensely influential ever since.Voltaire’s thinking was a mixture of reason, humanitarianism and cynicism. He deplored the senselessness of so much that he saw in religion, politics, and the general nature of humanity, but he always believed progress was possible and kept hoping for it. In his most famous work, Candide, he lampoons a recent philosophical theory he found ridiculous while leading the reader through a picaresque series of degradations and calamities, ending on a sober and unambitious precept: “We must cultivate our garden.”It is that mixture of hope and despair, faith and scepticism, that I find so appealing in Voltaire. He both wished the best for mankind and found it thoroughly lacking. He was deeply sceptical about religion and superstition but believed in a Creator “from reason”, enthusiastically promoted Newton’s science and admired Hinduism. He was inspired by English liberties such as he saw during a brief exile and believed France could benefit from the same. Yet he also eschewed democracy and hoped for the same kind of philosopher-king, or enlightened absolute ruler, as Plato once had.