Monatsarchive: September 2017

The Cloud Of Unknowing

Publiziert am 15. September 2017 von Jazzybee

The Cloud Of Unknowing – Evelyn Underhill

The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism originating in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The mystical scripture draws on the tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, which focuses on the via negativa road to discovering God as a pure entity, beyond any capacity of mental conception and so without any definitive image or form.

The Cloud Of Unknowing

The Cloud Of Unknowing

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The Cloud Of Unknowing.

ISBN: 9783849676766.

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Biography of Evelyn Underhill (from wikipedia.com)

Underhill was born in Wolverhampton. She was a poet and novelist, as … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jonah, Micah, Nahum

Publiziert am 15. September 2017 von Jazzybee

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jonah, Micah, Nahum – John Calvin

Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. Cuntained in this Volume are the Writings of three Prophets: and they are explained and elucidated in the Author’s peculiar manner; every sentence being dissected and examined, and the meaning ascertained according to the context, without the introduction of any extraneous matters. The main object throughout seems to have been to exhibit the genuine sense and design of the Sacred Writers. The Book … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Hidden Life in Freemasonry

Publiziert am 15. September 2017 von Jazzybee

The Hidden Life in Freemasonry – C. W. Leadbeater

The Masonic fellowship differs from all other societies in that candidates for membership have to join it blindfold, and cannot receive much information about it until they actually enter its ranks. Even then the majority of Masons usually obtain only the most general idea of the meaning of its ceremonies, and seldom penetrate further than an elementary moral interpretation of its principal symbols. In this book it is the object, while preserving due secrecy upon those matters which must be kept secret, to explain something of the deeper meaning and purpose of Freemasonry, in the hope of arousing among the Brn. a more profound reverence for that of which they are … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 67 – 92

Publiziert am 14. September 2017 von Jazzybee

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 67 – 92 – John Calvin

Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. This book covers Calvin’s commentaries on the Psalms 67 – 92.

John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 67 - 92

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 67 – 92

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John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 67 – 92.

ISBN: 9783849676735.

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Biography of John Calvin (from wikipedia.com)

John Calvin (10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was an influential French … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 93 – 119

Publiziert am 14. September 2017 von Jazzybee

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 93 – 119 – John Calvin

Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of Biblical interpretation. This book covers Calvin’s commentaries on the Psalms 93 – 119.

John Calvin's Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 93 - 119

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 93 – 119

Format: Paperback.

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 93 – 119.

ISBN: 9783849676728.

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Biography of John Calvin (from wikipedia.com)

John Calvin (10 July 1509 – 27 May 1564) was an influential French … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Oliver Twist

Publiziert am 14. September 2017 von Jazzybee

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist was published in 1838. This story shows in vivid colors the miseries ofthe pauper’s home where the inmates are robbed and starved, while the dead are hurried into unhonored graves; the haunts of villains and thieves, where the wretchedpoor are purposely made criminals by those who have sinned past hope; and one wrong-doing is used to force the victim deeper in vice. With such lives are interwoven those of a better sort, showing how men and women in all grades have power on others for good or ill. Oliver Twist — so called because the workhouse master had just then reached the letter “T” in naming the waifs — was born in the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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A history of Lowell, Massachusetts

Publiziert am 13. September 2017 von Jazzybee

A history of Lowell, Massachusetts – Charles Cowley

Lowell was founded by the ‘Merrimac Manufacturing Company’ in 1822, and named after Francis C. Lowell. The village grew very rapidly from the first. In 1820 it was incorporated as a town and ten years later was chartered as a city. This book tells the story of this very important textile center from the beginning until the 1870s.

A history of Lowell, Massachusetts

A history of Lowell, Massachusetts

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A history of Lowell, Massachusetts.

ISBN: 9783849676704.

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Lowell Basics (from Wikipedia):

Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in Middlesex County, Lowell (along with Cambridge) served as a county seat until Massachusetts disbanded county government in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Rambles around Old Boston

Publiziert am 13. September 2017 von Jazzybee

Rambles around Old Boston – Edwin Monroe Bacon

The author knows his city and loves it, and has a fund of anecdote as well as history up his capacious sleeve. The Boston of which he tells us reaches up to about hundredandfifty years back, without letting go of the older town of Colonial and Revolutionary days. All sorts of odd corners are portrayed, besides the well-known landmarks, without which no book on Boston would be complete. Some idea of the volume’s scope may be had from these chapter headings, selected at random: “The Storied Town of Crooked Streets,” “Types of Provincial Boston,” “The Common and Roundabout,” “Some Colonial Footprints,” …

Rambles around Old Boston

Rambles around Old Boston

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Old Cambridge

Publiziert am 13. September 2017 von Jazzybee

Old Cambridge – Thomas Wentworth Higginson

The first of the chapters in the book is an antiquarian chapter; but the “Three Literary Epochs” of the second chapter — the epoch of the North American Review, that of the Dial, and that of the Atlantic Monthly — were epochs all in some manner familiar to Higginson, and a part of which he was; the last three chapters he dedicated to the famous writers Holmes, Longfellow and Lowell.

Old Cambridge

Old Cambridge

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Old Cambridge.

ISBN: 9783849676681.

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Cambridge Basics (from Wikipedia):

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and is a part of the Boston metropolitan area.

Situated directly north of the city of Boston, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Rhine

Publiziert am 11. September 2017 von Jazzybee

The Rhine – Victor Hugo

This work, composed of “Letters to a Friend,” is the story of a merry archaeological journey. The form is a familar one, but it displays remarkable erudition. It is the chat of a witty savant who takes us from Aix-la-Chapelle to Cologne, and from Mainz to Frankfort, visiting all the monuments, recounting legends of towns, castles and hamlets, allowing himself to wander off into philosophic digressions, to indulge in picturesque recitals filled with incidents and surprises, and interspersed with serious or comic reflections. There are also prophetic pages in this book, and one cannot too much meditate upon some of the affirmations of Victor Hugo.

The Rhine

The Rhine

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The Rhine.

ISBN: 9783849676995.

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