Monatsarchive: Februar 2018

The Sacred Writings of Cyril of Jerusalem

Publiziert am 11. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Sacred Writings of Cyril of Jerusalem – Cyril of Jerusalem

Cyril, bishop of Jerusalem, where he was probably born, was ordained a presbyter in 345, and had the instruction of the catechumens entrusted to him. In 350 he was elevated to the see of Jerusalem, and became deeply involved in the dogmatic controversies of his time. His metropolitan, Acacius of Caesarea, inclined to Arianism, while Cyril strongly espoused the Nicene creed and was, in consequence, deposed for a time. On the death of the emperor Constantine he was restored; but on the accession of Valens, an Arian emperor, he had once more to resign his post till the accession of Theodosius permitted him to return finally in peace in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian

Publiziert am 11. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Sacred Writings of Saint Cyprian – Saint Cyprian

The Bishop of Carthage, one of the most illustrious in the early history of the church, and one of the most notable of its early martyrs, was born about the year 200, probably at Carthage. He was of patrician family, wealthy, highly educated, and for some time occupied as a teacher of rhetoric at Carthage. Of an enthusiastic temperament, accomplished in classical literature, he seems while a pagan to have courted discussion with the converts to Christianity. Confident in his own powers, he entered ardently into what was no doubt the great question of the time at Carthage as elsewhere. He sought to vanquish, but was himself vanquished by, the new … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jeremiah 20 – 29

Publiziert am 10. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jeremiah 20 – 29 – John Calvin

The Commentaries On Jeremiah, like those on The Minor Prophets, were delivered as Lectures In The Theological School At Geneva, taken down by some of the Pupils, and afterwards read to Calvin, and corrected. We find in them the production of the same vigorous and expansive mind: The Divine Oracles are faithfully explained, the meaning is clearly stated, and such brief deductions are made as the subjects legitimately warrant. Though the Lectures were extemporaneously delivered, there is yet so much order preserved, and such brevity, clearness, and suitableness of diction are found in them, that in these respects they nearly equal the most finished compositions of Calvin as … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jeremiah 30 – 47

Publiziert am 10. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jeremiah 30 – 47 – John Calvin

The Commentaries On Jeremiah, like those on The Minor Prophets, were delivered as Lectures In The Theological School At Geneva, taken down by some of the Pupils, and afterwards read to Calvin, and corrected. We find in them the production of the same vigorous and expansive mind: The Divine Oracles are faithfully explained, the meaning is clearly stated, and such brief deductions are made as the subjects legitimately warrant. Though the Lectures were extemporaneously delivered, there is yet so much order preserved, and such brevity, clearness, and suitableness of diction are found in them, that in these respects they nearly equal the most finished compositions of Calvin as … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The World Of Homer

Publiziert am 10. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The World Of Homer – Andrew Lang

In the perpetual running fight about the Homeric Homer, Mr. Andrew Lang has been for some years a most prominent champion. In his latest return to the fray, ” The World of Homer ” (Jazzybee Publishing), he lays about him in a very joyous and triumphant mood. His foemen are all those who hold, in some form or other, that ” the Iliad is a mosaic produced by a long series of Ionian additions to an Achaean ‘ kernel.’ ” Against them he maintains that ” the Iliad is, in the main, the work of a single poet, as is shown by the unity of thought, temper, character and ethos ” ; that … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Violet Fairy Book

Publiziert am 9. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Violet Fairy Book – Andrew Lang

There are still unused colors in the spectrum, and Mr. Andrew Lang’s “The Violet Fairy Book” has the merits of its predecessors, with some of its own added. Doubtless the stories suitable for inclusion in these volumes are innumerable, but the later books show the tendency to go farther and farther afield. Many of those in this book are from African and Romanian sources, and of much interest and worth.

The Violet Fairy Book

The Violet Fairy Book

Format: Paperback.

The Violet Fairy Book.

ISBN: 9783849673192.

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Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books (from Wikipedia):

Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Publiziert am 9. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade – Herman Melville

Typee was Melville’s first book, originally published in London in 1846. Even today it is an absolute classic in travel and adventure literature and is partly based on the author’s actual experiences on the island Nuku Hiva in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands. Of course there is still room for a lot of imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material from other books. Typee was Melville’s most popular work during his lifetime.

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade

Format: Paperback

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade.

ISBN: 9783849673185.

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Some background on The Confidence-Man (from Wikipedia):

The novel’s title refers to its central character, an ambiguous figure who sneaks aboard a Mississippi … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Jataka Tales Volume 1

Publiziert am 9. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Complete Jataka Tales – Edward Byles Cowell

The Pali work, entitled ‘the Jataka’, the first volume of which is now presented to the reader in an English form, contains 550 Jatakas or Birth-stories, which are arranged in 22 nipatas or books. This division is roughly founded on the number of verses (gathas) which are quoted in each story; thus the first book contains 150 stories, each of which only quotes one verse, the second 100, each of which quotes two, the third and fourth 50 each, which respectively quote 3 and 4, and so on to the twenty-first with 5 stories, each of which quotes 80 verses, and the twenty-second with 10 stories, each quoting a still larger number. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Ivanhoe

Publiziert am 8. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

The period of “Ivanhoe” is a few months subsequent to “The Talisman.” Richard I has abandoned his Crusade, and, after an incarceration in an Austrian prison returns to his English throne to find plots against him headed by his brother John, and also a general state of unrest. Normans and Saxons still quarrel, and the story as a whole gives an admirable picture of feudal times. Ivanhoe is the only son of Cedric the Saxon, and has been disinherited by his father on account of his love for Cedric’s ward, the Lady Rowena. lie thereupon goes with King Richard to Palestine and wins renown in the Crusade. He returns to England disguised as a Palmer. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Book Of Job

Publiziert am 8. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Book Of Job – 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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