Author: Samuel NeilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Epoch Men
Author: Samuel NeilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Epoch Men, and the Results of Their Lives (Classic Reprint)
Author: Samuel NeilPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331027492
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Excerpt from Epoch Men, and the Results of Their Lives "There never ceases in this world of ours Work for the good and noble. God decides The issues and the limits of all powers. O'er history and life He, sole, presides; He penetrates with organising force Epochs and institutions; every change Receives from Him the order of its course; And states derive their sovereignty and range. Creative conquest built old Empires up Which could not bear the moral analyst; They filled the measure of their granted cup, Then God's true civiliser rose in Christ. States vivified by faith in Him are strong, And such a State was built by Charlemagne.' - L. U. Masilene. "Charlemagne laid the first solid foundation for a permanent system of Christian government and institutions." - Fred. von Schlegel. "The name of Charlemagne has come down to us as one of the greatest in history. Though not the founder of his dynasty, he has given his name both to his race and his age." - Guizot. 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.
Epoch Men and the Results of Their Lives
Author: Samuel NeilEpoch Men
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ISBN: 9780461225556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Books and Authors
Author: AnonymousPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Books and Authors" (Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches) by Anonymous. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Faith of a Quaker (Classic Reprint)
Author: John William GrahamPublisher: CUP Archive
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Excerpt from The Faith of a Quaker There arise also the insistent questions which beset all mystics, and which in Quakerism demanded a corporate, instead of an individual, answer. Was the light infallible? Was the claim to it an assumption of spiritual exaltation. 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.
American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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The London Review of Politics, Society, Literature, Art, & Science
Author: Everyday Objects
Author: William Henry Davenport AdamsPublisher: WILLIAM P. NIMMO
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Example in this ebook The very favourable reception accorded both by Press and Public to the "Circle of the Year," has induced me to prepare a second volume, similar in design, but dealing with different branches of the same subject. As the former was founded on the first series of a popular French work, "Les Saisons," by M. Hoefer, so the present has been suggested by the second series; but in availing myself of it, I have omitted much, I have revised more, and at various parts my additions have been considerable. And here, as in my former effort, I have written from a popular rather than a scientific point of view. It has not been my object to sketch the outlines or lay down the foundations of any science; but to show, as best I could, how much of wonder and beauty enters into our daily life, and what inexhaustible sources of study lie at our very feet. It is, perhaps, a misfortune of our common systems of education that they too much neglect the tuition of the eye; that the young are not taught to mark the curious and interesting objects which are comprehended within their daily vision; that they know so much about ancient mythology and so little about modern science,—so much about gods and heroes, so little about stars and flowers. I have called this volume "Everyday Objects," not because those which it describes may be seen every day, but because they mostly belong to the region of the commonplace and familiar; and I have called it "Picturesque Aspects of Natural History," because I have endeavoured, in companionship with my French collaborateur, to indicate the poetical side of the various sciences into which I have presumed to penetrate. If it should awaken a love of nature in any breast, or develop a spirit of inquiry, which may lead the student further and further on the path of knowledge, the labour bestowed upon these pages will not have been in vain. The instinct of curiosity,—says M. Hoefer, in his preface to the first series of "Les Saisons,"—is the awakening of the intellectual life: it commences with the lisping of the child, accompanies the adult in every phase of his existence, and, far from becoming extinct with the last throb of the heart, revives before the unknown shadows of the grave. What, then, is there in the whole world of greater importance to follow and direct than the movements and impulses of this curiosity, of these uncertain pulsations of the soul? In this lies the secret of all education; and upon education depends the future of humanity. Unfortunately, he continues, the methods hitherto employed have been absolutely insufficient. And the insufficiency is most notable as regards the imperfect and defective training given to the instinct of curiosity. Observe the child. Of everything which excites his attention, he never fails to ask you the reason why. It is thus that he enters into the connexion of "cause" and "effect." It is a sign. But instead of following up this natural indication, and developing the thought by the exercise of the reason, we proceed as if the being under our charge were incapable of reason; we overload the memory of the child with a multitude of words, whose value he cannot understand until later in life, and perhaps never. The true direction of the mind is to proceed from the thought to the word, and not from the word to the thought. It is for want of having recognised and applied this principle that our educational systems have failed so utterly. To be continue in this ebook
The New Epoch and the University
Author: George S. MorisonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332168477
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Excerpt from The New Epoch and the University: Oration Delivered Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society in Sanders Threatre, Cambridge, Thursday, June 25, 1896 A year ago, on a very different occasion, I spoke of a subject which had impressed me deeply, and traced the effect which developments, amounting to the opening of a new epoch in civilazation, are having on the profession to which I belong. I felt that my task was incomplete, and that the influence of these developments on education was equally important. An opportunity is now offered to consider this influence. Beginning with a review of the conditions which have so impressed me, as the only way by which I can emphasize the importance of the events through which we are now passing, I would give you an engineers idea of the duties of a university in this new epoch. The early development of the human race has been divided into ethnical periods, representing successive conditions of savagery and barbarism, which culminated in civilization. Students of this subject recognize three periods of savagery, followed by three periods of barbarism. With the use of fire man passed from his lowest condition into the second period and acquired a power the uses of which are not yet fully developed. With the invention of the primitive form of projectile, the bow and arrow, he entered the third period. With pottery, and the accessories which went with it, he passed from savagery to barbarism. By the domestication of animals he added the strength of the brute creation to that of his own body. With the manufacture of iron the last of the barbarous periods was entered. 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.