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The Herald’s History of Los Angeles City
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 Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth
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 […]
Jane Austen – Woman of Letters
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 […]
Jane Austen
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 […]
The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second
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 […]
The Political Aspects of St. Augustine’s City of God
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 […]
Corpus Hermeticum
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 […]
The Jefferson Bible – Life And Morals Of Jesus Of Nazareth
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 […]
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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 […]
The Wisdom of the Ancients
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. […]