Monatsarchive: November 2017

Buddhist Suttas

Publiziert am 23. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Buddhist Suttas – Thomas William Rhys Davies

This book contains complete and/or excerpts from the following Buddhistic suttas: 1. The Book of the Great Decease (the Mahâ-parinibbâna-Suttanta), which is the Buddhist representative of what, among the Christians, is called a Gospel. 2. The Foundation of the Kingdom of Righteousness (the Dhamma-kakka-ppavattana-Sutta), containing the Four Noble Truths, and the Noble Eightfold Path which ends in Arahatship. 3. The Discussion on Knowledge of the Three Vedas (the Tevigga-Suttanta), which is a controversial dialogue on the right method of attaining to a state of union with Brahmâ. 4. The Sutta entitled ‘If he should desire–‘ (Âkankheyya-Sutta), which shows in the course of a very beautiful argument some curious sides of early Buddhist mysticism … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Milinda Panha

Publiziert am 22. November 2017 von Jazzybee

The Milinda Panha – Thomas William Rhys Davies

The Mininda Panha, or ‘The Questions of the King Milinda” are a classical Pali text describing how Menander embraced the Buddhist faith while discussing with the Buddhist sage Ngasena. He is described as constantly accompanied by a guard of 500 Greek (“Yonaka”) soldiers, and two of his counsellors are named Demetrius and Antiochus. This type of discussion was known to ancient Greeks as a “sozo”, it is important for Buddhists to understand the cultural context in which this discussion was held.

The Milinda Panha

The Milinda Panha

Format: Paperback.

The Milinda Panha.

ISBN: 9783849675080.

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The Pali Canon  (from wikipedia.com)

The Pāli Canon (Pali: Tipitaka, Sanskrit: IAST: Tripiṭaka) is … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Book Of Genesis

Publiziert am 22. November 2017 von Jazzybee

The Book Of Genesis – James Hastings

Here is a gold mine for the preacher, the teacher and the father and mother in the home who have it in mind to inculcate sound teaching, based upon the Word of God, so that the boys and girls of the congregations, Sunday-Schools and households may be thoroughly rooted and grounded in the essentials of the Christian faith. There are many volumes in this series of short addresses and they cover the entire range of the Holy Scriptures, from Genesis to Revelation. The material gathered here is fresh and varied and there is just enough of it to furnish the groundwork of the preacher’s sermon, the Sunday school teacher’s talk and the parent’s … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sacred Writings of Pseudo-Clementine Literature

Publiziert am 22. November 2017 von Jazzybee

The Sacred Writings of Pseudo-Clementine Literature

The name “Pseudo-Clementine Literature” (or, more briefly, “Clementina” ) is applied to a series of writings, closely resembling each other, purporting to emanate from the great Roman Father. But, as Dr. Schaff remarks, in this literature he is evidently confounded with “Flavius Clement, kinsman of the Emperor Domitian.” These writings are two in number: (1) the Recognitions, of which only the Latin translation of Rufinus has been preserved; (2) the Homilies, twenty in number, of which a complete collection has been known since 1853. Other writings may be classed with these; but they are of the same general character, except that most of them show the influence of a later age, adapting the material … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Story Of American History

Publiziert am 21. November 2017 von Jazzybee

The Story Of American History – Albert F. Blaisdell.

Some sort of a first book on American history is now quite generally used in schools as a preparation for the more intelligent study of a larger and more formal text-book in the higher grammar grades. For beginners, a mere compilation of facts is dry and unsatisfactory. Such books have now given place, for the most part, to those prepared on a more attractive and judicious plan. The real aim in a first book should be to interest boys and girls in the history of their country, and to encourage them to cultivate a taste for further study and reading. This book is intended for use in the earlier grammar grades … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Nicholas Nickleby

Publiziert am 21. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens

“Nicholas Nickleby” combined the comic and the sensational elements for the first time, and is still the type of Dickens’s longer books, in which the strain of violent pathos or sinister mystery is incessantly relieved by farce, either of incident or description. In this novel, too, the easy-going, old-fashioned air of “Pickwick” is abandoned in favour of a humanitarian attitude more in keeping with the access of Puritanism which the new reign had brought with it, and from this time forth a certain squeemishness in dealing with moral problems and a certain “gush” of unreal sentiment obscured the finer qualities of the novelist’s genius.

Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby

Nicholas Nickleby.

ISBN: 9783849675042.

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Clairvoyance

Publiziert am 21. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Clairvoyance – C. W. Leadbeater

Clairvoyance means literally nothing more than “clear-seeing,” and it is a word which has been sorely misused, and even degraded so far as to be employed to describe the trickery of a mountebank in a variety show. Even in its more restricted sense it covers a wide range of phenomena, differing so greatly in character that it is not easy to give a definition of the word which shall be at once succinct and accurate. It has been called “spiritual vision,” but no rendering could well be more misleading than that, for in the vast majority of cases there is no faculty connected with it which has the slightest claim to be honoured by so … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Political Writings of Richard Cobden Volume 2

Publiziert am 20. November 2017 von Jazzybee

The Political Writings of Richard Cobden Volume 2 – Richard Cobden

Richard Cobden was an English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with two major free trade campaigns, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. This is volume two out of two with his most essential political writings, this book containing the last letter from ‘1793 AND 1853, IN THREE LETTERS.’, as well as ‘THE THREE PANICS: an historical episode’ and other works.

The Political Writings of Richard Cobden Volume 2

The Political Writings of Richard Cobden Volume 2

Format: Paperback.

The Political Writings of Richard Cobden Volume 2.

ISBN: 9783849675028.

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Biography of Richard Cobden (from Wikipedia):

Richard Cobden (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865) was an English … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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History of Sacramento County, California

Publiziert am 20. November 2017 von Jazzybee

History of Sacramento County, California – William L. Willis.

SACRAMENTO COUNTY is named after the river upon which it is situated, and the latter was named by the Spanish Mexicans, Catholics, in honor of a Christian institution. The word differs from its English correspondent only in the addition of one letter. It would have been a graceful compliment to General Sutter if his own name, or the name New Helvetia, which he had bestowed upon this locality, had been given to the city. Helvetia is the classic name of Switzerland, Sutter’s native country. This book tells the story of Sacramento County on more than 400 thrilling and entertaining pages.

History of Sacramento County, California

History of Sacramento County, California

Format: Paperback.

History of Sacramento County, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Old Pittsburgh Days

Publiziert am 20. November 2017 von Jazzybee

Old Pittsburgh Days – Thomas Jefferson Chapman.

There is no foot of American soil richer in historical incident than the point of land at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. Here began that struggle between France and England which was destined to involve many nations in its course, to endure through two generations, and cover with its ravages the face of the civilized world. About the rude fortification at the head of the Ohio cluster a score of names illustrious on the page of history. The author has aimed to present a sketch of the origin and early development of the city that should be correct as to matters of fact and as attractive as possible.

Old Pittsburgh Days

Old Pittsburgh

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