Download or read book The Book of Saints and Heroes Classic Reprint written by Mrs. Lang and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Book of Saints and Heroes Long, long ago, when the world was young and gay, grown-up people must have been much more like children than they are at present. The grown-ups were quite as fond of fairy tales as any child can be to-day; and they actually believed in fairies more than some wise and grave little boys and girls do at present. Why should they not believe in them, for they met them danc ing in the open dells of the forests, and saw them, beau tiful girl fairies, wading and swimming in the river pools. These fairies were as friendly as they were fair to see; and the fairy of the oak tree or the well would step out of it when a handsome shepherd or warrior passed; and the pair would fall in love with each other, and some times marry. Homer, the Oldest of Greek poets, tells us, as if it were the most natural thing in the world, about a man who married a fairy, and how as they were kind, friendly people, they built their house near a road and entertained all the passers-by. This sort of thing is still going on in the islands of the Pacific, or so the natives believe. A native of New Caledonia, a young man, the friend of a cousin of mine named Jim, came to see him once, and stayed long, and seemed nervous and cried when he was saying goodbye. 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.
Download or read book The Book of Saints and Heroes written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Book of Saints and Heroes written by Lang and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Christians to visit Europe and the British Isles met pagans who told tales of fairies, talking beasts, and other wonderful things. To these marvelous stories, they soon added new ones about the Christian saints. Some were true, others improbable, and many simply fantastic. In the ones we include here, you'll meet the saint who spent seven Easters on a whale's back and the amiable lion who was St. Jerome's friend. You'll see St. George fight the dragon, and you'll read about the fierce wolf St. Francis of Assisi converted. But many of these stories have in them scarcely a wave of the fairy wand. So you'll also find here true tales of great saints such as St. Louis of France, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Francis Xavier, and St. Elizabeth of Hungary-- souls marked by courage, kindness, and piety. These marvelous legends and exciting true stories of Christian saints and heroes will provide many hours of delightful reading to believers and non-believers alike!
Download or read book Saints and Heroes to the End of the Middle Ages written by George Hodges and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Saints and Heroes written by George Hodges and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Saints and Heroes: Since the Middle Ages ON the last day of October, in the year 1517, a German monk posted a paper on a\church door in Wittenberg. It was written in Latin, and was addressed to theologians. It contained a series of state ments concerning the doctrine and practice of indulgences. The writer desired to have the matter discussed. It seemed to him that there was something wrong about it, and he would be glad to hear what wiser men might say. Here, he said, are indulgences preached and sold through out the Church: is it right? Is it in accord ance with the gospel and the truth? The paper was a question. 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.
Download or read book Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages written by George Hodges and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains sketches on the following Saints and heroes: Martin Luther; Sir Thomas More; St. Ignatius Loyola; Thomas Cranmer; John Calvin; John Knox; Gaspard de Coligny; William the Silent; William Brewster; William Laud; Oliver Cromwell; John Bunyan; George Fox; John Wesley. Illustrated with many paintings and drawings of the Saints and heroes.
Download or read book Saints and Heroes written by George Hodges and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Saints and Heroes: To the End of the Middle Ages Just about the time when Cyprian was born in Carthage, Perpetua and Felicitas amazed the people. Everybody was talk ing about it. Perpetua was twenty-two years old. Cyprian's father and mother must have known her very well. The two families belonged to the same high-born and wealthy society. They were all pagans together. But Perpetua had become a Christian. It was as if, in Russia, the daughter of a noble family should become an anarchist. 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.
Download or read book The Book of Saints and Heroes written by Leonora Blanche Lang and published by Lowe Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Saints Heroes of the Western World Classic Reprint written by Muriel Orlidge Davis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Saints Heroes of the Western World This small book is an attempt to interest those who are beginning the study of European History. I have hoped to illustrate at least one line of thought by means Of the biographies of a few great men. A list of some of the books which I have consulted will be found at the end of this volume. I have selected them because they are easily accessible to the general reader. My thanks must be expressed to two Of my colleagues, Miss G. I. Anderson and Miss J. M. Hughes of Somerville College, who by their friendly interest and almost daily disagreement with my Opinions have made the composition of this book a pleasant and lively task and also to my brother, Mr. H. W. C. Davis, who, however, is not responsible for any of the defects of this little volume. 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.
Download or read book The Book of Saints and Heroes written by Mrs. Lang and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1912 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A noted non-Catholic writer on pedagogical subjects stated some time ago that if his own religious body had the wealth of story contained in the lives of the saints of the Catholic Church, it would be abundantly supplied with religious literature for children. It is true that the lives of the saints are an inexhaustible treasure-house for all that will interest and stimulate children; and that the same treasure-house is too seldom drawn upon. Its riches are, comparatively speaking, little known to our children or, indeed, to our older folks. A book that taps this vein of Catholic inheritance is: The Book of Saints and Heroes, by Mrs. Lang, and edited by the late Andrew Lang. Needless to say the work is admirably well written, and no child, even though tired, would think of sleep while the story of Jerome and the Lion, or Francis and the Wolf of Agobio, was being read. Here is all that will arouse the imagination, fascinate the mind, and instill that romantic love of heroic deeds which, in turn, is so powerful a stimulus to virtue. The book is most richly and tastefully illustrated with page drawings, many of them beautifully colored. The author has combined legend and history, and has sought to give us an interesting story book.
Download or read book The Book of Saints and Heroes written by Mrs. Lang and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Heroes Saints and Ordinary Morality written by Andrew Michael Flescher and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of us are content to see ourselves as ordinary people—unique in ways, talented in others, but still among the ranks of ordinary mortals. Andrew Flescher probes our contented state by asking important questions: How should "ordinary" people respond when others need our help, whether the situation is a crisis, or something less? Do we have a responsibility, an obligation, to go that extra mile, to act above and beyond the call of duty? Or should we leave the braver responses to those who are somehow different than we are: better somehow, "heroes," or "saints?" Traditional approaches to ethics have suggested there is a sharp distinction between ordinary people and those called heroes and saints; between duties and acts of supererogation (going beyond the expected). Flescher seeks to undo these standard dichotomies by looking at the lives and actions of certain historical figures—Holocaust rescuers, Martin Luther King, Jr., Dorothy Day, among others—who appear to be extraordinary but were, in fact, ordinary people. Heroes, Saints, and Ordinary Morality shifts the way we regard ourselves in relationship to those we admire from afar—it asks us not only to admire, but to emulate as well—further, it challenges us to actively seek the acquisition of virtue as seen in the lives of heroes and saints, to learn from them, a dynamic aspect of ethical behavior that goes beyond the mere avoidance of wrongdoing. Andrew Flescher sets a stage where we need to think and act, calling us to lead lives of self-examination—even if that should sometimes provoke discomfort. He asks that we strive to emulate those we admire and therefore allow ourselves to grow morally, and spiritually. It is then that the individual develops a deeper altruistic sense of self—a state that allows us to respond as the heroes of our own lives, and therefore in the lives of others, when times and circumstance demand that of us.
Download or read book Book of Saints and Heroes written by Andrew & Lenora Lang and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Saints and Heroes Voyage Classics written by Andrew Lang and published by . This book was released on 2022-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in a collection of legendary stories where saints fought dragons, talked to centaurs and healed troubled beasts.Medieval Christians were expert storytellers, illustrating profound spiritual truths through exciting legends that captured the imagination. They greatly admired the saints and heroes who walked among them and preserved their memory in tales that are difficult to forget.In this book you will encounter not only St. George and the Dragon, but also St. Colomba and the Loch Ness Monster, St. Francis and the Wolf and St. Jerome with his friendly lion. You will also marvel at the holiness and extraordinary charity of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Margaret of Scotland and St. Vincent de Paul.Gather the whole family to read these remarkable legends and be inspired by saints who were not afraid to lead heroic lives.
Download or read book The Book of Saints And Heroes written by Andrew Lang and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating collection of stories and legends of saints and heroes from around the world, compiled and edited by a team of renowned folklorists and scholars. This book includes tales of bravery, sacrifice, and spiritual enlightenment, from ancient times to the present day. It is a delightful and inspiring read for readers of all ages and backgrounds. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Some Russian Heroes Saints and Sinners Legendary and Historical Classic Reprint written by Sonia Elizabeth Howe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Russian Heroes, Saints and Sinners, Legendary and Historical As Russia has so many more national heroes, legendary as well as historical, than those portrayed in the following 'pages, the qualifying word Some had to appear in the title. There are many other martial heroes whose deeds are chronicled in the annals of her history, as well as numerous noble and heroic souls whose names stand for all that makes life worth living; there is a whole galaxy of saints - not canonized by 'the Church - whose memory has been enshrined in the hearts of those who witnessed their Christ-like lives, and a gallery could be filled with portraits of interesting sinners. 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.
Download or read book Saints and heroes written by George Hodges and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
