Monatsarchive: Mai 2017

The Herald’s History of Los Angeles City

Publiziert am 7. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Herald’s History of Los Angeles City – Charles Dwight Willard

The career of a city contains as much good material, out of which an entertaining history may be constructed, as does the life of an individual, or the development of a nation; but, for some reason, it has come to pass in America that the preparation of city, or “local”, history has usually fallen into the hands of schemers who exploit the “prominent” citizen for his biography, and throw in something of a narrative, merely as an apology for the book’s existence. The present book is an attempt to supply in convenient and portable shape the material facts in the history of Los Angeles city. It contains nothing in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth

Publiziert am 7. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth – John Calvin

The Institutes of the Christian Religion, in Latin “Institutio Christianae religionis”, is Calvin’s most known work on Protestant theology. It was first published in 1536. The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some previous knowledge of theology and covered a broad range of theological topics from the doctrines of church and sacraments to justification by faith alone and Christian liberty. The whole text consists of four books, this volume including the third and fourth.

The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth

The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth

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The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth.

ISBN: 9783849691356

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Jane Austen – Woman of Letters

Publiziert am 4. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Jane Austen – Francis W. Cornish

Mr. Francis Warre Cornish has devoted most of his chapters to a running comment on the novels. His criticism of the characters is shrewd and has the pleasant flavor of talk about people with whom one is intimately acquainted. He also excels in analyzing the plots and in reproducing the atmosphere of the country life which surrounded Jane Austen.

Jane Austen - Woman of Letters

Jane Austen – Woman of Letters

Format: Paperback.

Jane Austen – Woman of Letters.

ISBN: 9783849692377

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Jane Austen

Publiziert am 4. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Jane Austen – Oscar W. Firkins

A biography worth reading. The author has looked at Miss Austen more through his own eyes, and less through the eyes of her many illustrious eulogists, than any other writer we know of. Even when he is in harmony with the opinions of Miss Austen’s posterity one feels his first-handedness. Not one of his more heretical opinions exists for the sake of saying something new. This critical study of Jane Austen falls into three parts: the novelist; the realist; the woman. Part 1 is a searching and unsparing analysis of the six novels, with particular reterence to plot. Part 2 is a more brief and general treatment of the characters. Part 3, the biographical … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second

Publiziert am 4. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second – John Calvin

The Institutes of the Christian Religion, in Latin “Institutio Christianae religionis”, is Calvin’s most known work on Protestant theology. It was first published in 1536. The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some previous knowledge of theology and covered a broad range of theological topics from the doctrines of church and sacraments to justification by faith alone and Christian liberty. The whole text consists of four books, this volume including the first and second

The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second

The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second

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The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second.

ISBN: 9783849691509

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The Political Aspects of St. Augustine’s City of God

Publiziert am 4. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Political Aspects of St. Augustine’s City of God – John Neville Figgis

When one civilization has fallen and another is in its birth throes, people are apt to be seduced by the rushlights of a false leadership. The mind and mood of such a time of transition are intensely puzzling and those who would meet its needs must have insight and vision. The Epistle to the Hebrews was written after the fall of Jerusalem in the interest of a larger faith and in defense of the substantial authority of Christianity. When Rome was sacked by Alaric in 410 A. D., the shock of the catastrophe reacted against Christianity. Augustine wrote the De Civitate Dei to prove that the disaster … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Corpus Hermeticum

Publiziert am 4. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

Corpus Hermeticum – G.R.S. Mead

The so-called Hermetic writings have been known to Christian writers for many centuries. The early church Fathers (Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria) quote them in defense of Christianity. Stobaeus collected fragments of them. The Humanists knew and valued them. They were studied in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in modern times have again been diligently examined by many scholars.

Corpus Hermeticum

Corpus Hermeticum

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Corpus Hermeticum.

ISBN: 9783849691714

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Biography of G.R.S. Mead (from wikipedia)

Mead was born in Peckham, Surrey, England to British Army Colonel Robert Mead and his wife Mary (née Stow), who had received a traditional education at Rochester Cathedral School.

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The Jefferson Bible – Life And Morals Of Jesus Of Nazareth

Publiziert am 4. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Jefferson Bible – Life And Morals Of Jesus Of Nazareth – Thomas Jefferson

The book is Jefferson’s notions as to the life and doctrines of Jesus, and it is significant that he ends the Life with the laying of Jesus in the sepulchre. The resurrection formed no part of Jefferson’s belief. The doctrines selected by Jefferson as commending themselves to him are the precepts which the Christians sedulously avoid quoting. As a whole, he considered the doctrines of Jesus defective, and to have been made worse by the Christians, and so made a wee little book of the doctrines he deemed the best.

The Jefferson Bible - Life And Morals Of Jesus Of Nazareth

The Jefferson Bible – Life And Morals Of Jesus Of Nazareth

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The Symbolism of Freemasonry

Publiziert am 3. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Symbolism of Freemasonry – Albert G. Mackey

Of the various modes of communicating instruction to the uninformed, the masonic student is particularly interested in two; namely, the instruction by legends and that by symbols. It is to these two, almost exclusively, that he is indebted for all that he knows, and for all that he can know, of the philosophic system which is taught in the institution. All its mysteries and its dogmas, which constitute its philosophy, are intrusted for communication to the neophyte, sometimes to one, sometimes to the other of these two methods of instruction, and sometimes to both of them combined. The Freemason has no way of reaching any of the esoteric teachings of the Order … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Wisdom of the Ancients

Publiziert am 3. Mai 2017 von Jazzybee

The Wisdom of the Ancients – Sir Francis Bacon

Bacon published this interesting little work in 1609. It contains thirty-one fables abounding with a union of deep thought and poetic beauty. In most fables he explains the common but erroneous supposition that knowledge and the conformity of the will, knowing and acting, are convertible terms.

The Wisdom of the Ancients

The Wisdom of the Ancients

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The Wisdom of the Ancients.

ISBN: 9783849691844

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Biography of Francis Bacon (from Wikipedia):

Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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