Download or read book The Ruin Gate written by Jonathan Moeller and published by Azure Flame Media, LLC. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RIDMARK ARBAN was once an honored Swordbearer. Now he is a disgraced exile, outcast and alone. To redeem himself, he seeks the secret of the return of the Frostborn, a secret guarded by the mysterious Elder Shamans of Qazaluuskan Forest. But deadly predators rule the forest, and those predators seek Ridmark's death...

Download or read book The Ruins written by Constantin-François Volney and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ruins" is a work by Constantin-François Volney, a French philosopher and historian. The full title of the book is "The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature." It was first published in 1791. In "The Ruins," Volney explores the historical and philosophical implications of the rise and fall of empires. The work delves into the causes of societal decay and the cyclical nature of civilizations. Volney draws on his observations during travels in the Middle East, including visits to ancient ruins, to support his reflections on the fate of empires. The book is considered a significant work of Enlightenment thinking and has influenced discussions on history, politics, and philosophy. Volney's reflections on the patterns of human societies have contributed to the understanding of the rise and decline of civilizations. For readers interested in Enlightenment philosophy, the history of ideas, and reflections on the fate of empires, "The Ruins" by C. F. Volney provides a thought-provoking exploration of these themes.

Download or read book The Light in the Ruins written by Michael G. Tavella and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the Twenty-second Century, the world has entered a Dark Age. A Lutheran pastor, Jonathan Klug, serves a congregation in Felderheim, a town in central Pennsylvania. While struggling with doubt about himself and his ministry, he receives a call from God to build a new community, Sublacum, near the ruins of a church where certain people have claimed to have seen a pillar of light on Saint John’s night, December 27. Pastor Jonathan finds a document that confirms his call. He comes to acknowledge that God has enlisted him for this mission. Through the crisis, Jonathan’s friend, Anthony Cacciaguida, a priest at Saint Benedict Roman Catholic Church, serves as Jonathan’s advisor. Both men look to the Word of God for their help. As the state and federal governments weaken, Frank Sulla, a successful business man, sees his opportunity to gain power and dominate the region around Felderheim. He too has an advisor and guide, Nikolaos Kakos, who is an emissary of the devil. Sulla has signed his name in blood. The battle lines are formed. Good and evil once again face one another in an epic battle. The conflict will require sacrifice and loss of life. The history of the next few centuries will depend on the outcome.

Download or read book Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon written by Austen Henry Layard and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ruins and the Law of Nature written by C. F. Volney and published by Health Research Books. This book was released on 1987-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1890 Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires: and the Law of Nature. This book was published for the first time in 1793, under the title of the French Citizen's Catechism. Sample of contents: Journey; Reverie; Apparition; Exposition; Conditi.

Download or read book Love Among the Ruins written by Warwick Deeping and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1904 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The branches of the forest invoked the sky with the supplications of their thousand hands. Black, tumultuous, terrible, the wilds billowed under the moon, stifled with the night, silent as a windless sea. Winter, like a pale Semiramis of gigantic mould, stood with her coronet touching the steely sky. A mighty company of stars stared frost-bright from the heavens. A pillar of fire shone red amid the chaos of the woods. Like a great torch, a blazing tower hurled spears of light into the gloom. Shadows, vast and fantastic, struggled like Titans striving with Destiny in the silence of the night. Their substanceless limbs leapt and writhed through the gnarled alleys of the forest. Overhead, the moon looked down with thin and silver lethargy on the havoc kindled by the hand of man.

Download or read book Love Among the Ruins written by Warwick Deeping and published by MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Among the Ruins Anon she rose softly, turned towards the mirror hanging on the wall, gazed into its depths with a species of bewitched fear. One glance given, she turned away with a shudder, hid her face in her hands, walked the room in a mute frenzy of self-horror. Presently she knelt again before the window-seat, struggled in prayer, turning her face piteously to an open casement where the golden woods stood under the red wand of the west. The light waned a little. She rose up again from her knees, shook her hair forward so that it bathed her face, trod slowly towards the mirror, stared at herself therein. The crystal bowl was broken, the ivory throne dishonoured! The blush of the rose had faded, the gleam of the opal fallen to dust. Youth and its sapphire shield had passed into the gloom of dreams. The stars and the moon were magical no more. She wavered away from the window to a dark corner, hid her face in the arras. The same wild cry rang like a piteous requiem through her brain. The man lived and loved her, and she had come to this! Burning Gilderoy had stolen her beauty, made her a mockery of her very self. God, that Fate should compel her to lift her scars to the eyes of love! In the gathering dusk, she went again to the mirror, peered therein, with strained eyes and a tremor of the lip. The twilight softened somewhat the bitterness of truth. She shook her hair forward, saw her eyes gleam, fingered her white throat, and smiled a little. Presently she lit a taper, held it with wavering hand, peered at the steel panel once again. She cried out, jerked away, and crushed the frail light under her foot. Darkness increased, seeming to clothe her misery. She wandered through the room, twisting her black hair about her wrist, moaning and darting piteous glances into the gloom. Once she took a poniard from a table, fingered the point, pressed her hand over her heart, threw the knife away with a gesture of despair. On the morrow the man would come to her. What would she see in those grey eyes of his? Horror and loathing, ah God, not that! Anon she grew calmer and less distressed, prayed awhile, lit a lamp, delved in an ambry built in the wall. That night her hands worked zealously, while the moon shimmered on the mere, setting silver wrinkles on its agate face. The woods were still and solemn as death, deep with the voiceless sympathy of the hour. Black lace hung upon Yeoland's hands; the sable thread ran through and through; her white fingers quivered in the light of the lamp. Her few hours of sleep that night were wild and feverish, smitten through with piteous dreams. On the morrow she bound a black fillet about her brows, and let the dusky mask of lace fall over face and bosom. She prayed a long while before her crucifix, but she did not gaze again into dead Duessa's mirror.

Download or read book The Ruins Lesson written by Susan Stewart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 'The Ruins Lesson,' the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet-critic Susan Stewart explores the West's fascination with ruins in literature, visual art, and architecture, covering a vast chronological and geographical range from the ancient Egyptians to T. S. Eliot. In the multiplication of images of ruins, artists, and writers she surveys, Stewart shows how these thinkers struggled to recover lessons out of the fragility or our cultural remains. She tries to understand the appeal in the West of ruins and ruination, particularly Roman ruins, in the work and thought of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, whom she returns to throughout the book. Her sweeping, deeply felt study encompasses the founding legends of broken covenants and original sin; Christian transformations of the classical past; the myths and rituals of human fertility; images of ruins in Renaissance allegory, eighteenth-century melancholy, and nineteenth-century cataloguing; and new gardens that eventually emerged from ancient sites of disaster"--

Download or read book The Ruin of a Ruler written by J. W. Barlament and published by J. W. Barlament. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mortal against immortal. Philosopher against emperor. Man against god. Valenthia, queen of the city-state of Rauheim, is readying her forces. Vaersius, emperor of the vast Halaeric Empire, is hellbent on conquest, and he sees her city as ripe for the taking. His father, the great god Halaeron, seeks to see the whole world worshipping him. His mentor, the old philosopher Rahdain, seeks to see all people live in peace. Only one vision may prevail. None of them are about to back down. In his third novel, J. W. Barlament explores problems of politics, philosophy, and religion through three grandiose stories about one fantastical world tearing itself to shreds.

Download or read book The Ruins Or Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature written by C.-F. Volney and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ruins of Empires (Les Ruines, 1791) is a classic work criticizing the political regimens of different countries pre and during the 18th century. The book was translated into English by the American president Thomas Jefferson, who thought it very important to build a strong political system in America. The author of the book criticizes Rousseau, demands the separation of church and state, and states that empires grow and stay stable only until the government allows the enlightened to grow and flourish.

Download or read book Observations on the Ruins of Babylon written by Thomas Maurice and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discoveries in the Ruins of Niniveh and Babylon written by Austen Henry Layard and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon written by Sir Austen Henry Layard and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon written by Austen Henry Layard and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book In the Ruins written by Kate Elliott and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an alternate Europe where bloody conflicts rage, the sixth book of the Crown of Stars epic fantasy series continues the world-shaking conflict for the survival of humanity The lost land of the Aoi has returned at last to the earth from which it was cast forth millennia ago. And as tsunamis, earthquakes, and firestorms reshape the very land and seas, darkness descends everywhere. With the war for empire disrupted, all sides must regroup. And though the battle for survival must be the primary focus of all concerned, there are always those eager to seize power, no matter at what cost. Though King Henry demanded with his last breath that Prince Sanglant accept his crown, many may refuse to honor the dying king’s wish. Liath, Sanglant’s wife, has been excommunicated and unless he agrees to put her aside, his own aunt, Mother Scholastica, is threatening to interdict Sanglant and all who follow him. And though he and Liath long to search for their missing daughter, Blessing, the demands of statecraft hold them hostage to Sanglant’s newly constituted court. Henry’s wife, Adelheid, is determined to regain control of their empire. But she has let Antonia proclaim herself the new skopos, the Holy Mother who rules over all of the church. And Antonia has already proved herself an extremely dangerous ally. The Aoi are divided between those who seek only to rebuild and warriors determined to claim revenge against the humans. Stronghand, too, is consolidating his gains for his combined Eika/Alban empire, bent on further conquests, drawn in part by the bond he still shares with Alain. And even as Liath seeks out the forbidden magic that could bring back the light of day, new alliances are forming and old ones being abandoned. Only time will tell who—if anyone—will emerge triumphant as cultures, religions, and races clash in the ultimate struggle for control of this strange new world….