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The Cloud Of Unknowing
The Cloud Of Unknowing – Evelyn Underhill The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism originating in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages. The mystical scripture draws on the tradition of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and Christian Neoplatonism, […]
John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jonah, Micah, Nahum
John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On Jonah, Micah, Nahum – John Calvin Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front rank of […]
The Hidden Life in Freemasonry
The Hidden Life in Freemasonry – C. W. Leadbeater The Masonic fellowship differs from all other societies in that candidates for membership have to join it blindfold, and cannot receive much information about it until they actually enter its ranks. Even then the majority of Masons usually obtain only the most general idea of the […]
John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 67 – 92
John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 67 – 92 – John Calvin Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front […]
John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 93 – 119
John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Psalms 93 – 119 – John Calvin Calvin produced commentaries on most of the books of the Bible. His commentaries cover the larger part of the Old Testament, and all of the new excepting Second and Third John and the Apocalypse. His commentaries and lectures stand in the front […]
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens Oliver Twist was published in 1838. This story shows in vivid colors the miseries ofthe pauper’s home where the inmates are robbed and starved, while the dead are hurried into unhonored graves; the haunts of villains and thieves, where the wretchedpoor are purposely made criminals by those who have sinned […]
A history of Lowell, Massachusetts
A history of Lowell, Massachusetts – Charles Cowley Lowell was founded by the ‘Merrimac Manufacturing Company’ in 1822, and named after Francis C. Lowell. The village grew very rapidly from the first. In 1820 it was incorporated as a town and ten years later was chartered as a city. This book tells the story of […]
Rambles around Old Boston
Rambles around Old Boston – Edwin Monroe Bacon The author knows his city and loves it, and has a fund of anecdote as well as history up his capacious sleeve. The Boston of which he tells us reaches up to about hundredandfifty years back, without letting go of the older town of Colonial and Revolutionary […]
Old Cambridge
Old Cambridge – Thomas Wentworth Higginson The first of the chapters in the book is an antiquarian chapter; but the „Three Literary Epochs“ of the second chapter — the epoch of the North American Review, that of the Dial, and that of the Atlantic Monthly — were epochs all in some manner familiar to Higginson, […]
The Rhine
The Rhine – Victor Hugo This work, composed of “Letters to a Friend,” is the story of a merry archaeological journey. The form is a familar one, but it displays remarkable erudition. It is the chat of a witty savant who takes us from Aix-la-Chapelle to Cologne, and from Mainz to Frankfort, visiting all the […]