Author: Richard BaxterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The Reformed Pastor
Author: Richard BaxterActs of the Legislature of West Virginia
Author: West VirginiaThe Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina
Author: Charles Lee CoonPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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A Year's Journey Through France and Part of Spain
Author: Philip ThicknessePublisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination
Author: Silke StrohPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810134047
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
Can Scotland be considered an English colony? Is its experience and literature comparable to that of overseas postcolonial countries? Or are such comparisons no more than patriotic victimology to mask Scottish complicity in the British Empire and justify nationalism? These questions have been heatedly debated in recent years, especially in the run-up to the 2014 referendum on independence, and remain topical amid continuing campaigns for more autonomy and calls for a post-Brexit “indyref2.” Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination offers a general introduction to the emerging field of postcolonial Scottish studies, assessing both its potential and limitations in order to promote further interdisciplinary dialogue. Accessible to readers from various backgrounds, the book combines overviews of theoretical, social, and cultural contexts with detailed case studies of literary and nonliterary texts. The main focus is on internal divisions between the anglophone Lowlands and traditionally Gaelic Highlands, which also play a crucial role in Scottish–English relations. Silke Stroh shows how the image of Scotland’s Gaelic margins changed under the influence of two simultaneous developments: the emergence of the modern nation-state and the rise of overseas colonialism.
Life of Saint Cecilia
Author: Prosper GuerangerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781484817667
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Church offers, in every age, in her Saints, Apostles, and Martyrs, brilliant examples of virtue, zeal, and heroic courage. While all are holy, there are still some, whose lives present features, at once so touching and sublime, that time can detract nothing from the interest which attaches to their names in every Catholic heart. Pre-eminent among these, is St. Cecilia, the gentle queen of Sacred Song, distinguished alike for her attachment to holy Virginity, her apostolic zeal, and the unfaltering courage by which she won the martyr's crown. The author has followed with fidelity, the ancient Acts of St. Cecilia, the authenticity of which the reader will find satisfactorily defended in his pages. For less important details, he has claimed the right generally accorded to historians, of receiving probable evidence, where certain proofs cannot be ob- tained. On such authority, he has, for example, assumed with the learned Bosio and others, that the virtues of our Saint formed the crowning glory of the illustrious family of Cecilia Metella. The recital does not terminate with the death of Cecilia. The discoveries of her tomb, in the ninth and sixteenth centuries, form not the least interesting portion of the work. The description of the church which was once her dwelling, and the witness of her sufferings and triumphs, brings those scenes so vividly before us, that Cecilia seems to belong, as all the Saints of God most truly do, as much to our own day, as to the period when she still combated on earth. We will not speak of the pleasure and instruction the author has afforded by his faithful pictures of the celebrated Ways of Ancient Rome, and the sacred cities of the dead, concealed in the holy shades beneath. For this, and much other interesting information, we refer the reader to the following pages, content, if, by our own humble labors, we have contributed to the edification of our Catholic brethren, and to the glory of Him who is admirable in His Saints.
Kypros, the Bible and Homer
Author: Max Hermann Ohnefalsch-RichterPublisher:
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Category : Art, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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The Legacy of James Bowdoin III
Author: Kenneth E. CarpenterPublisher: Bowdoin College
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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History of Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte
Author: Daniel Augustus TompkinsPublisher:
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Category : Charlotte (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Beverly Privateers in the American Revolution
Author: Octavius Thorndike HowePublisher:
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Category : Beverly (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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