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Author: Pope Leo XIIIPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The masterpieces of Catholic literature, oratory and art, containing choice selections by the most celebrated writers, orators and painters, both ancient and modern, including selections and contributions from His Holiness, Pope Leo XIII; ...[et al.]
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The Well and the Shallows
Author: G. K. ChestertonPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473376610
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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One of G. K. Chesterton’s finest collection of essays, The Well and the Shallows, explore more controversial themes than typically seen in the work of the English writer. Written with Chesterton’s biting wit, he touches on various cultural, social and moral issues from birth control to Catholicism. Chesterton’s perceptive analysis of core issues within modern society remains startling relatable nearly 100 years since its publication. Written shortly after his conversion to Catholicism, he writes with tremendous foresight focusing on subjects like Catholicism, Reformation and Protestantism, and other profound writings on political and social issues based around the central theme of religion. Essays in this volume include: My Six Conversions The Return to Religion The Higher Nihilism The Ascetic At Large Babies and Distribution A Century of Emancipation Trade Terms Shocking the Modernists Sex and Property Why Protestants Prohibit Where is the Paradox? The Well and the Shallows is an insightful collection of essays on some of the most important ideas of the modernist era written by one of the greatest English writers of the 20th century. It is a perfect read for those interested in the work of G. K. Chesterton or any with a broader interest in historical, social analysis from a religious perspective.
The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals
Author: Edward Payson EvansPublisher:
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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
Author: Reviel NetzPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108481477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 905
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A history of ancient literary culture told through the quantitative facts of canon, geography, and scale.
One Hundred Years of Thomism
Author: Victor B. BrezikPublisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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"Aeterni Patris": pages 173-197. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton
Author: John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron ActonPublisher: London : Longmans, Green
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Category : Catholics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Popes and Science
Author: James Joseph WalshPublisher:
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Category : Popes
Languages : en
Pages : 578
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European Drawings
Author: J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher:
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Category : Drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The Thirteenth: Greatest of Centuries
Author: James Joseph WalshPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 146552049X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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Of all the epochs of effort after a new life, that of the age of Aquinas, Roger Bacon, St. Francis, St. Louis, Giotto, and Dante is the most purely spiritual, the most really constructive, and indeed the most truly philosophic. … The whole thirteenth century is crowded with creative forces in philosophy, art, poetry, and statesmanship as rich as those of the humanist Renaissance. And if we are accustomed to look on them as so much more limited and rude it is because we forget how very few and poor were their resources and their instruments. In creative genius Giotto is the peer, if not the superior of Raphael. Dante had all the qualities of his three chief successors and very much more besides. It is a tenable view that in inventive fertility and in imaginative range, those vast composite creations—the Cathedrals of the Thirteenth Century, in all their wealth of architectural statuary, painted glass, enamels, embroideries, and inexhaustible decorative work may be set beside the entire painting of the sixteenth century. Albert and Aquinas, in philosophic range, had no peer until we come down to Descartes, nor was Roger Bacon surpassed in versatile audacity of genius and in true encyclopaedic grasp by any thinker between him and his namesake the Chancellor. In statesmanship and all the qualities of the born leader of men we can only match the great chiefs of the Thirteenth Century by comparing them with the greatest names three or even four centuries later. Now this great century, the last of the true Middle Ages, which as it drew to its own end gave birth to Modern Society, has a special character of its own, a character that gives it an abiding and enchanting interest. We find in it a harmony of power, a universality of endowment, a glow, an aspiring ambition and confidence such as we never find in later centuries, at least so generally and so permanently diffused. … The Thirteenth Century was an era of no special character. It was in nothing one-sided and in nothing discordant. It had great thinkers, great rulers, great teachers, great poets, great artists, great moralists, and great workmen. It could not be called the material age, the devotional age, the political age, or the poetic age in any special degree. It was equally poetic, political, industrial, artistic, practical, intellectual, and devotional. And these qualities acted in harmony on a uniform conception of life with a real symmetry of purpose.