Author: William Lonsdale WatkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Supreme Conquest
Author: William Lonsdale WatkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Supreme Conquest
Author: William Lonsdale WatkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Supreme Conquest
Author: William Lonsdale WatkinsonPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780243086443
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Excerpt from The Supreme Conquest: And Other Sermons Preached in America Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out ev'n to the edge of doom. There is an ebullition sometimes misnamed love that quite lacks constancy and persistence: it is a fancy, flash, freak, fever; it is not love at all. But when we get 'the genuine passion we come as near to divinity as we ever can. AS Victor Hugo puts it, A brazier comes to be full of Cinders, not so a star. 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.
The supreme conquest, and other sermons
Author: William Lonsdale WatkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
The Supreme Conquest, and Other Sermons Preached in America
Author: W L WatkinsonPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015994072
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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High Conquest - The Story of Mountaineering
Author: James Ramsey UllmanPublisher:
ISBN: 1447400186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Khalifah
Author: John ElrayPublisher: Aardwolfe Books
ISBN: 0970777671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A forced Muslim convert defies all odds to become the supreme ruler of an empire that stretches from Egypt to Persia in this drama that pits Arab against Arab during the Muslims' rise to power in the seventh century A.D. Mu'awiya is the son of the most vehement foe of the Prophet Muhammed, and amid the treachery, war, and political intrigue that follow the Prophet's death, Mu'awiya embarks on a 30-year odyssey to redeem his family's name and realize his ambition to be a leader in the new order. This gripping novel exposes the inner workings of a movement whose conquests rivaled those of the Romans and whose influence on modern-day life spans the globe.
The Academy
Author: Founding Gods, Inventing Nations
Author: William F. McCantsPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691151482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated here for the first time, and focusing on the dynamic influence of the Greek, Roman, and Arab conquests of the Near East, William McCants looks at the ways the conquerors and those they conquered reshaped their myths of civilization's origins in response to the social and political consequences of empire. The Greek and Roman conquests brought with them a learned culture that competed with that of native elites. The conquering Arabs, in contrast, had no learned culture, which led to three hundred years of Muslim competition over the cultural orientation of Islam, a contest reflected in the culture myths of that time. What we know today as Islamic culture is the product of this contest, whose protagonists drew heavily on the lore of non-Arab and pagan antiquity. McCants argues that authors in all three periods did not write about civilization's origins solely out of pure antiquarian interest--they also sought to address the social and political tensions of the day. The strategies they employed and the postcolonial dilemmas they confronted provide invaluable context for understanding how authors today use myth and history to locate themselves in the confusing aftermath of empire.
City of Inmates
Author: Kelly Lytle HernándezPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469631199
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.