Author: George Clarke PeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Cross-lots, and Other Essays
Author: George Clarke PeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Cross-Lots, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)
Author: George Clarke PeckPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780483414686
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Excerpt from Cross-Lots, and Other Essays But I have not lost sight of my cross-lots path, nor intended to read into it more than is implicitly there. I do not suppose that the cross-lots pilgrim who blazed the trail I fol lowed that midsummer day was consciously making a path for his successors. His choice was primarily an individual matter. He was suiting his own convenience or pleasure. He was thinking and deciding in personal terms. Exactly. And why shrink from the logic of that? Until one identifies with his own felicity the needs of others; until their cries ring in his. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
And Other Essays
Author: Michael CohenPublisher: Interactive Publications
ISBN: 1922332259
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
In this essay collection, the sequel to his A Place to Read, Michael Cohen presents the odd idea of the suicide note as a writing project that can be critiqued like any other, describes encounters with illegal border crossers in south Texas, and ponders the sudden popularity of books about atheism. Books are a frequent subject here, and Cohen makes an argument for The Maltese Falcon as the Great American Novel, searches for the perfect, the Platonic, nature handbook, and compares playing golf to reading about it. Reading is, for him, as engrossing a form of experience as any other—say hitchhiking through the Southwest with an old friend, the joys of flying small planes, or the charm of studying ancient Greek while people-watching at the gym, all experiences chronicled here. He looks back at the effect a 1956 collision of two airliners over the Grand Canyon had on him as a kid fond of flying, and how he learned about the joys of good food during a wanderjahr in Europe. Many of these essays begin with a question: whether Americans deserve their reputation for materialism, why we seem to have lost the climate change battle, and whether talking to yourself might really be beneficial. Another frequent topic is how our ideal places cannot avoid being bruised by time. He looks at what happened as the Tucson bars of his college days closed or morphed into very different places. He traces seasonal changes in the desert. He notes what happens to its effect when a giant cross beside I-40 in Texas is joined by equally giant windmills. And he takes a mind’s-eye tour through Paris’s terrace cafés and their literary associations after the 2015 terrorist attack there.
The Church School Journal
Author: Superstition and Other Essays
Author: Robert G. IngersollPublisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615924353
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Civil War veteran, successful lawyer, persuasive spokesman for the Republican Party, spellbinding orator, and controversial iconoclast, Col. Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) was one of the best-known intellectuals of the 19th century. He rose to national prominence through his gift for oratory, which he publicly displayed on numerous lecture circuit tours. For almost twenty years this dedicated popularizer of progressive thinking and staunch critic of superstition would regularly address huge audiences, opening their minds to ideas that often provoked guarded whispers in private. Ingersoll was a man far ahead of his time, who advocated agnosticism, birth control, voting rights for women, the advancement of science, and civil rights for all races. Though eloquent on a wide variety of topics, he became most famous, and notorious, for his provocative lectures questioning the traditional, Bible-based Christian worldview of the age. In this volume are collected his best-known lectures on religion, the Bible, and related subjects. Included are "Why I Am an Agnostic"; "The Truth"; "What Is Religion?"; "Superstition"; "What Infidels Have Done"; "What Should You Substitute for the Bible as a Moral Guide?"; "Crumbling Creeds"; "The Liberty of Man, Woman, and Child"; and "Love." This outstanding collection is indispensable for freethinkers, humanists, and open-minded people of all persuasions. Note: This volume is available individually or as part of a two-volume set with On the Gods and Other Essays by Robert by Ingersoll: two-volume set (ISBN 1-59102-171-5): $50.
Crossing Borders
Author: Sergio TroncosoPublisher: Arte Publico Press
ISBN: 9781558857100
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This collection of personal essays by a Mexican-American writer deals with crossing linguistic, cultural, and intellectual borders to provoke debate about contemporary Mexican-American identity.
The Princeton Theological Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews of recent literature."
Interior
Author: The Lutheran Quarterly
Author: The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1172
Book Description