Monatsarchive: Januar 2018

Historia Calamitatum – The Story Of My Misfortunes

Publiziert am 10. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

Historia Calamitatum – The Story Of My Misfortunes – Peter Abelard

The Historia Calamitatum (A history of my calamities) is an autobiographical work by Peter Abelard, one of medieval France’s most important intellectuals and a pioneer of scholastic philosophy. It is written in the form of a letter and highly influenced by Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions. Peter Abelard was a pioneer of philosophy and university alike. The Historia Calimatatum provides readers with knowledge of his views of women, learning, monastic, life, Church and State combined, and the social milieu of the time.

Historia Calamitatum - The Story Of My Misfortunes

Historia Calamitatum – The Story Of My Misfortunes

Format: Paperback.

Historia Calamitatum – The Story Of My Misfortunes.

ISBN: 9783849674021.

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Essays In Occultism, Spiritism, Demonology

Publiziert am 10. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

Essays In Occultism, Spiritism, Demonology – William R. Harris

As far back as history goes, at all times, in all lands, and among all peoples materializations of spirits have occurred. The spirit manifestations to-day are but a repetition of those which took place in pre-Christian times. The war and the publications of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge, W. J. Crawford, and Emile Boirac have given to Spiritism a popular vogue and impetus. By a singular coincidence books on Spiritism, published in Germany, France, and Italy have appeared almost simultaneously with English and American publications on this weird subject. Many of these have given a quasi-scientific endorsation to Spiritism, and have contributed official support to the current belief in … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Sacred Writings of Gregory the Great

Publiziert am 10. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Sacred Writings of Gregory the Great –  Gregory the Great

Gregory the Great was born at Rome about 540 A. D. He was at an early age made prætor of Rome by Emperor Justin II of Constantinople, but resigned this office and withdrew to one of the seven monasteries he had founded. “He lavished on the poor all his costly robes, his silk, his gold, his jewels, his furniture, and, not even assuming to himself the abbacy of his convent, but beginning with the lowest monastic duties, he devoted himself altogether to God.” It was while here that he one day saw some fair-haired Anglo-Saxon youths in the slave-market. When he was told they were Angles, he said: “Not … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 3

Publiziert am 9. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

John Calvin’s Bible Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 3 – 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 Biblical interpretation. Our Author has exerted a powerful influence on all succeeding expositors. They have found their interest in listening to his instructions, and have been more deeply indebted to him than is generally known. Many valuable interpretations of passages of Scripture appeared for the first time in his writings, and have ever since been warmly approved. In other cases, the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Book Of Dreams And Ghosts

Publiziert am 9. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Book Of Dreams And Ghosts – Andrew Lang

It has been known for some time that Mr. Lang has added ghosts to his hobbies. In the volume before us, ” The Book of Dreams and Ghosts,” Mr. Lang offers a large collection of ghost stories old and new, and his opinions on “appearances.” As far as we can gather Mr. Lang’s attitude from these pages, which have much of the vagueness of expression that goes with memoirs of the supernatural, he disbelieves in traditional ghosts, the ghosts that do things-but wishes it were otherwise. Like all persons of poetical or romantic temperament, he would prefer to believe in them. They would make life so much more interesting and exciting.… Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Christ’s Object Lessons

Publiziert am 9. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

Christ’s Object Lessons – Ellen Gould White

In this age, when the study of nature is receiving so much attention, the teachings of Christ from the things of nature form an interesting addition to the bibliography. Both young and old will find pleasure and profit in reading this comment upon Christ’s Parable’s.

Christ's Object Lessons

Christ’s Object Lessons

Format: Paperback.

Christ’s Object Lessons.

ISBN: 9783849673970.

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Biography of Ellen Gould White (from wikipedia.com)

Ellen Gould White (née Harmon; November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915) was a prolific author and an American Christian pioneer. Along with other Sabbatarian Adventist leaders such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she formed what became known as the Seventh-day

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The Pirate

Publiziert am 8. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Pirate – Sir Walter Scott

“The Pirate” is not connected with historic annals, nor does it deal with the sea, except in an incidental way. It is a tale of neighborhood life off the northeast coast of Scotland. Basil Mertoun, a reticent and misanthropic man about which nothing is known, takes up his residence in a tumble-down mansion on a Shetland cape, which he rents at a nominal sum from Magnus Troil, an old landowner. Basil is accompanied only by a young son, Mordaunt, who, more sociable and agreeable than his father, makes acquaintances all about the countryside. Especially does he frequent the Troil home, attracted thither by the two charming daughters of Magnus, Minna and Brenda; but he … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Song of Hiawatha

Publiziert am 8. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Song of Hiawatha – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘This Indian Edda, if I may so call it,’ says the author, ‘is founded on a tradition, prevalent among the North American Indians, of a personage of miraculous birth, who was sent among them to clear their rivers, forests, and fishing-grounds, and to teach them the arts of peace. He was known among different tribes by the several names of Michabou, Chiabo, Manabozho, Tarcuyawagon, and Hiawatha. ‘ We are further informed, that ‘the scene of the poem is among the Ojibways on the southern shore of Lake Superior, in the region between the Pictured Rocks and the Grand Sable.’ Here then, at last, is a genuine American poem, by a native of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Great Controversy Between Christ And Satan

Publiziert am 8. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

The Great Controversy Between Christ And Satan – Ellen Gould White

This book is not published to tell us that there is sin and woe and misery in this world. We know it all too well. This book is not published to tell us that there is an irreconcilable controversy between darkness and light, sin and righteousness, wrong and right, death and life. In our heart of hearts we know it, and know that we are participators, actors, in the conflict. But to every one of us comes at times a longing to know more of the great controversy. How did the controversy begin? or was it always here? What elements enter into its awfully complex aspect? How am I … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas

Publiziert am 7. Januar 2018 von Jazzybee

Biographical Encyclopedia of Texas – Southern Publishign Company.

Biography is not given its rightful place in literature. It has a more intimate relation to History than is assigned by common judgment; for, after all, the life of any nation is written in the lives of those who have shown themselves in some respects superior to their fellows. History is to a great degree but the sum of individual action, and the work of the historian consists in connecting many fragments of personal experience and effort, in such a way as to form a narrative harmonious and instructive. Of no Commonwealth, in ancient or modern times, is it so true as of Texas, that its history can only be thoroughly understood … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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