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Buddhist Suttas
Buddhist Suttas – Thomas William Rhys Davies This book contains complete and/or excerpts from the following Buddhistic suttas: 1. The Book of the Great Decease (the Mahâ-parinibbâna-Suttanta), which is the Buddhist representative of what, among the Christians, is called a Gospel. 2. The Foundation of the Kingdom of Righteousness (the Dhamma-kakka-ppavattana-Sutta), containing the Four Noble […]
The Milinda Panha
The Milinda Panha – Thomas William Rhys Davies The Mininda Panha, or ‚The Questions of the King Milinda“ are a classical Pali text describing how Menander embraced the Buddhist faith while discussing with the Buddhist sage Ngasena. He is described as constantly accompanied by a guard of 500 Greek („Yonaka“) soldiers, and two of his […]
The Book Of Genesis
The Book Of Genesis – 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 […]
The Sacred Writings of Pseudo-Clementine Literature
The Sacred Writings of Pseudo-Clementine Literature The name „Pseudo-Clementine Literature“ (or, more briefly, „Clementina“ ) is applied to a series of writings, closely resembling each other, purporting to emanate from the great Roman Father. But, as Dr. Schaff remarks, in this literature he is evidently confounded with „Flavius Clement, kinsman of the Emperor Domitian.“ These […]
The Story Of American History
The Story Of American History – Albert F. Blaisdell. Some sort of a first book on American history is now quite generally used in schools as a preparation for the more intelligent study of a larger and more formal text-book in the higher grammar grades. For beginners, a mere compilation of facts is dry and […]
Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens „Nicholas Nickleby“ combined the comic and the sensational elements for the first time, and is still the type of Dickens’s longer books, in which the strain of violent pathos or sinister mystery is incessantly relieved by farce, either of incident or description. In this novel, too, the easy-going, old-fashioned air […]
Clairvoyance
Clairvoyance – C. W. Leadbeater Clairvoyance means literally nothing more than „clear-seeing,“ and it is a word which has been sorely misused, and even degraded so far as to be employed to describe the trickery of a mountebank in a variety show. Even in its more restricted sense it covers a wide range of phenomena, […]
The Political Writings of Richard Cobden Volume 2
The Political Writings of Richard Cobden Volume 2 – Richard Cobden Richard Cobden was an English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with two major free trade campaigns, the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. This is volume two out of two with his most essential political writings, this book containing the last […]
History of Sacramento County, California
History of Sacramento County, California – William L. Willis. SACRAMENTO COUNTY is named after the river upon which it is situated, and the latter was named by the Spanish Mexicans, Catholics, in honor of a Christian institution. The word differs from its English correspondent only in the addition of one letter. It would have been […]
Old Pittsburgh Days
Old Pittsburgh Days – Thomas Jefferson Chapman. There is no foot of American soil richer in historical incident than the point of land at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers. Here began that struggle between France and England which was destined to involve many nations in its course, to endure through two generations, […]