Download or read book Jerusalem written by Margaret Oliphant and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Oliphant viewed Jerusalem as the center of Western culture. "The story of Jerusalem is one of the most wonderful in the world, besides being of unparalleled importance to the human race.. And when we descend the course of the ages and come to a still more glorious and wonderful history, it is Jerusalem still which is the scene both of tragedy and triumph, of the greatest and most wonderful life which was ever lived among men," she wrote. In her examination of the city, she focuses on its people and rich history. She recounts the stories of David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Jesus. This book "is addressed only to those for whom the soil of Palestine, so fondly and so long known as the Holy Land, is peopled with the known and loved, the poets and sages and kings with whom we are familiar as with the records of our own lives." MARGARET OLIPHANT (1828-1897) was a prolific, versatile Scottish author who supported her family at a time when women rarely made their living through writing. She wrote almost a hundred novels, dozens of works of non-fiction, almost four hundred articles, and numerous short stories.
Download or read book Blood Terminal written by Janet Joyce Holden and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book Five, and the conclusion of the vampire thriller, Origins of Blood. A month has passed since Mark Gannon and Lowell Raines disappeared during a desperate search for Deacon, leaving Matthew Gannon in command of his Father’s formidable empire. As the search for the missing continues, Matthew stumbles on the discovery of a new threat. What began thousands of years ago in North Africa has spread north beyond the Mediterranean, and the song of the desert has now been replaced by the call of Europe’s ancient tombs. In this thrilling climax to the Origins of Blood series, Matthew unearths a terrible secret regarding his ancestors that seeks to wrench command from his grasp and threatens the lives of everyone in the House. Not one to shy from danger, he meets the challenge with support from Gilles, Houston, and the redoubtable Lily. But as the threat becomes a desperate chase toward the place where it all began, the fate of those currently missing hangs perilously in the balance. Will Mark, Lowell, and Deacon make it back in time, or will their means of escape be lost forever?
Download or read book Jerusalem written by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Echoes of Desire written by Heather Dubrow and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition and mainstream Petrarchan poetry. It also addresses some of the broader implications of contemporary critical methodologies. Heather Dubrow offers an alternative to the two predominant models used in previous treatments of Petrarchism: the all-powerful poet and silenced mistress on the one hand and the poet as subservient patron on the other.
Download or read book The Poems of Charles Churchill written by Charles Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Repose of the Spirits written by Ahmad Sam'ānī and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Repose of the Spirits is a translation of one of the earliest and most comprehensive treatises on Sufism in the Persian language. Written by Aḥmad Sam'ānī, an expert in Islamic law from a famous Central Asian scholarly family in about the year 1135, it is one of the handful of early Sufi texts available in English and is by far the most accessible. It also may well be the longest and the most accurately translated. Ostensibly a commentary on the divine names, it avoids the abstract discourse of theological nitpicking and explains the human significance of the names with a delightful mix of Quranic verses and sayings of the Prophet and various past teachers, interspersed with original interpretations of the received wisdom. Unlike the usual books on the divine names (such as that of al-Ghazali), The Repose of the Spirits reminds the reader of the later poetical tradition, especially the work of Rumi. The prose is richly embroidered with imagery and interspersed with a great variety of Arabic and Persian poetry. What is especially remarkable is the manner in which the author speaks to his readers about their own personal situations, explaining why they are driven by a love affair with God, a God who is full of compassion and good humor, whether they know it or not. William C. Chittick's masterful new translation brings this work to an English-language audience for the first time.
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill written by Charles Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Judges and Saviors Deborah and Samson written by Hillel I. Millgram and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about a book: it is an in-depth yet reader friendly analysis of the Book of Judges, one of the most dramatic books of the Bible. Against the commonly-held view that this remarkable work is no more than a collection of hero tales stemming from Israel’s earliest days in its land—its “Heroic Age,” so to speak—this study makes the case that the Book of Judges is a unified composition with a single focused message: that it is the values held by a people and not its politics that determine its fate. Further, Judges contends that there is a direct connection between the kind of values people internalize and the level of violence that racks their society, both inflicted from without and generated from within. And not least, that the presence of violence is a symptom that a society has abandoned the moral values of monotheism for the Machiavellian politics of a pagan worldview that worships power as the ultimate reality. The larger-than-life heroes and heroines—Ehud and Jael, Deborah and Gideon, Jephthah and Samson—who people the pages of Judges serve by their example to illustrate the way this thesis works out in the world.
Download or read book The Works of the British Poets written by Thomas Park and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chronicles of Sherlock Holmes written by David B. Beckwith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Innes Watson, the great-great-grandson of Dr. John H. Watson has inherited all of the manuscripts of his forebear. These include stories, for whatever reason Watson never published. The Murdered Professor and The Bank Vault were withheld by Watson himself, The Assassination Plot because of its political nature. Conan Doyle advised that Holmes's tales should stay in Europe, and so Holmes in America was never published, the final tale The Haunted Stable was withheld with respect to Conan Doyle's spiritual beliefs. Now after more than a hundred years these lost tales are published. An Appendix is included of the chronology.
Download or read book The Book of Isaiah and Other Historical Studies written by Charles Henry Hamilton Wright and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret Lion written by C. W. Gortner and published by Variocity. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meticulously researched, filled with the pageantry and perils of Tudor England, THE SECRET LION begins the story of a man's rise to power in the Elizabethan secret service, the first book in The Spymaster Chronicles.
Download or read book An Introduction to Islam written by Frederick Denny and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Islam, Fourth Edition, provides students with a thorough, unified and topical introduction to the global religious community of Islam. In addition, the author's extensive field work, experience, and scholarship combined with his engaging writing style and passion for the subject also sets his text apart. An Introduction to Islam places Islam within a cultural, political, social, and religious context, and examines its connections with Judeo-Christian morals. Its integration of the doctrinal and devotional elements of Islam enables readers to see how Muslims think and live, engendering understanding and breaking down stereotypes. This text also reviews pre-Islamic history, so readers can see how Islam developed historically.
Download or read book The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill Collated with the Best Editions by Thomas Park in Three Volumes written by Charles Churchill and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Children of Anthi written by Deborah Chester and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the national bestselling author. In the grand tradition of Dune, an epic of adventure and survival on a dying world. Omari has violated every sanction of his world to hijack the Forerunner and blast his way through a black star to reach the Uncharted Zone—and freedom. But on Ruantl, a toxic world lit by a black sun, Omari found himself hostage in an underground citadel deep beneath a radioactive wasteland. Here the enigmatic high priest and his horde of black-robed barbarian mutants guard an army of crystal caskets—and plan a bloody rebellion to save their race from extinction. To survive, Omari has one chance. But does he dare undergo the ultimate sacrifice and become one of the CHILDREN OF ANTHI?
Download or read book Jerusalem its history and Hope written by Margaret Oliphant and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
