Monatsarchive: Februar 2018

Wallenstein’s Lager / Wallenstein’s Camp

Publiziert am 8. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

Wallenstein’s Lager / Wallenstein’s Camp – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Friedrich Schiller

This is the first part of the Wallenstein trilogy by German playwright and mastermind Friedrich Schiller. The work as a whole produced a profound impression, and it is certainly Schiller’s masterpiece in dramatic literature. He brings out with extraordinary vividness the ascendency of Wallenstein over the wild troops whom he has gathered around him, and at the same time we are made to see how the mighty general’s schemes must necessarily end in ruin, not merely because a plot against him is skilfully prepared by vigilant enemies, but because he himself is lulled into a sense of security by superstitious belief in his supposed destiny as revealed to him … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sacred Writings of Ephraim the Syrian

Publiziert am 7. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Sacred Writings of Ephraim the Syrian – Ephraim the Syrian

Ephraim the Syrian was a saint who lived in Mesopotamia during the first three quarters of the 4th century A.D. He is perhaps the most influential of all Syriac authors; and his fame as a poet, commentator, preacher and defender of orthodoxy has spread throughout all branches of the Christian Church. This reputation he owes partly to the vast fertility of his pen – according to the historian Sozomen he was credited with having written altogether 3,000,000 lines – partly to the elegance of his style and a certain measure of poetic inspiration, more perhaps to the strength and consistency of his personal character, and his ardour in defence … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Selected Homilies & Treatises

Publiziert am 7. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

Selected Homilies & Treatises – St. John Chrysostrom

This compilation contains the following writings:

Treatise on the Priesthood.
An Exhortation to Theodore After His Fall.
Letter to a Young Widow.
Homilies on S. Ignatius and S. Babylas.
Concerning Lowliness of Mind.
Instructions to Catechumens
Three Homilies Concerning the Power of Demons.
Against Marcionists and Manichaeans.
Homily on the Paralytic Let Down Through the Roof.
Homily Against Publishing the Errors of the Brethren.
On Eutropius, Patrician and Consul.
.. and many more ..

Selected Homilies & Treatises

Selected Homilies & Treatises

Format: Paperback.

Selected Homilies & Treatises.

ISBN: 9783849673123.

Available at amazon.com and other venues.

 

Biography of St. John Chrysostom (from wikipedia.com)

John Chrysostom ( c. 349 – 407), Archbishop of Constantinople, was an … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Personal Recollections of the Civil War

Publiziert am 7. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

Personal Recollections of the Civil War – James Madison Stone.

This volume does not claim to be a tactical, or strategic history of the campaigns of which it treats; it aims rather to be a narrative of the every-day life and experience of the private soldier in camp and field-how he lived, how he marched, how he fought and how he suffered. No sooner had some of the volunteers reached the front, and been subjected to the hardships and exposures of army life, than they fell sick, were sent to the hospital and were discharged without passing through any serious campaigns. Others were wounded early, were disabled and were never able to return to their regiments. The more fortunate passed … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Inner Teachings Of The Philosophies and Religions of India

Publiziert am 6. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Inner Teachings Of The Philosophies and Religions of India – William Walker Atkinson

This book gives essential insights on Indian philosophy and religion and offers twelve lessons on what you need to understand when diving into this topic. From the Contents:

The First Lesson – The Land Of The Ganges.
The Second Lesson – The Inner Teachings.
The Third Lesson – The Sankhya System.
The Fourth Lesson – The Vedanta System.
The Fifth Lesson – Patanjali’s Yoga System.
The Sixth Lesson – The Minor Systems.
The Seventh Lesson – Buddhism.
The Seventh Lesson – Sufism.
.. and many more ..

The Inner Teachings Of The Philosophies and Religions of India

The Inner Teachings Of The Philosophies and Religions of India

Format: Paperback.

The Inner Teachings Of The Philosophies and … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Life Of George Washington Volume 2

Publiziert am 6. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Life Of George Washington Volume 2 – Washington Irving

“The Life Of George Washington” is a monumental work on the life of one of the most famous American presidents. Originally published in five volumes between 1853 and 1859, it is a treasure chest of information on Washington and the Civil War. This work is presumeably the most intimate and fascinating biography of a man who worked his way from an Army commander to the first President of the United States. This is volume two out of five.

The Life Of George Washington Volume 2

The Life Of George Washington Volume 2

Format: Paperback.

The Life Of George Washington Volume 2.

ISBN: 9783849673093.

Available at amazon.com and other venues.

 

Biography of George Washington (from Wikipedia):

George … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The War of the Worlds

Publiziert am 6. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells

Mr. H. G. Wells wears his skeleton of scientific knowledge so palpably on the outside that the most erratic flights of his imagination are received with a docile hushfulness accorded to few of the inventive. In The War of the Worlds, with clean-cut, stirring language, he discusses the exquisite possibilities of a bombardment of London by the planet Mars. The outrage upon experience which, with the gravity of a Swift, he calls upon us to accept is so tremendous and far-reaching as to counteract the effect of humorous details and leave a sense of horror and baffled intelligence. Over a track of forty million miles, in obedience to predictions at Lick … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Three Sunsets And Other Poems

Publiziert am 5. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

Three Sunsets And Other Poems – Lewis Carroll

This book contains the following poems by the famous author:

Three Sunsets.
The Path Of Roses.
The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death.
Solitude.
Far Away.
Beatrice.
Stolen Waters.
The Willow-Tree.
Only A Woman’s Hair.
The Sailor’s Wife.
After Three Days.
Faces In The Fire.
A Lesson In Latin.
Puck Lost And Found.
A Song Of Love.

Three Sunsets And Other Poems

Three Sunsets And Other Poems

Format: Paperback.

Three Sunsets And Other Poems.

ISBN: 9783849673079.

Available at amazon.com and other venues.

 

A short biography of Lewis Carroll (from Wikipedia):

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Book Of Saints And Heroes

Publiziert am 5. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Book Of Saints And Heroes – Andrew Lang

A noted non-Catholic writer on pedagogical subjects stated some time ago that if his own religious body had the wealth of story contained in the lives of the saints of the Catholic Church, it would be abundantly supplied with religious literature for children. It is true that the lives of the saints are an inexhaustible treasure-house for all that will interest and stimulate children; and that the same treasure-house is too seldom drawn upon. Its riches are, comparatively speaking, little known to our children or, indeed, to our older folks. A book that taps this vein of Catholic inheritance is: The Book of Saints and Heroes, by Mrs. Lang, and edited … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal

Publiziert am 5. Februar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal – Arthur Edward Waite

The reader who would reach to motives and inspirations, who would seek to understand the subtle and secret forces that have moved all history, it would be difiicult to name a work of greater interest or value than this. To the rarer reader who has come upon traces of an undying tradition–a Hidden Church or Wisdom–the book will be a very revelation. The Graal legend, even as it is known to the general reader, woven into the Arthurian epic, is one of rarest beauty and most profound meaning. But when its rich symbolism is revealed in full, the signicance of the great quest, in the which pure-miuded and self-sacricing … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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