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Panama and the Canal in Picture and Prose
by Willis John AbbottPanama and the Canal in Picture and Prose written by Willis J. Abbott is a complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world-famous canal—the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time.Panama. They say the word means “a place of many fishes,” but there is some dissension about the exact deriv..
Roman Stoicism
by E. Vernon ArnoldThis book is the outcome of a course of lectures delivered by me in successive years to Latin Honours students in accordance with the regulations of the University of Wales. It is therefore primarily intended for the assistance of classical students; but it may perhaps appeal in its present form to a somewhat wider circle.At the time that the book ..
Biblical Revision, its duties and conditions
by Henry AlfordThe Scribes were the guardians of the law, and its readers and expounders to the people. It is related of Ezra, that he was “a ready scribe in the law of Moses which the Lord God of Israel had given: he had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments.” But in exercising thi..
Christian Literature
by John StoughtonThe chapter before us is plainly a supplement to the main history. St. John concluded that history under a deep conviction that it was far from a full account of his Master’s wonderful ministry. “Many other signs,” said he, “truly did Jesus, in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.” But in this supplem..
Roman Public Life
by A. H. J. GreenidgeThe object of this work is to trace the growth of the Roman constitution, and to explain its working during the two phases of its maturity, the developed Republic and the Principate. The title selected perhaps expresses more succinctly than any other could do the nature of the plan which I wished to undertake. My desire was to touch, however briefl..
The Book of Light in the Hand of Love
by Charles J. VaughanThe Book was the Book of Light. When you hold it, as this day, closed in your hand; not opening it, for interpretation—that is not your office—but carrying it forth closed for another to open; when you think of it as a whole, gathering into one the scattered rays of its light, that you may say in a word why it is that you are devoting time an..
The Three Choirs
by Richard KingThe Three Choirs: A Handbook to the Cathedrals of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester A Complete Description of the Buildings, a History of Each Diocese and Biographical Notices of the Bishops. The single authority for the architectural history of Gloucester Cathedral is Abbot Froucester’s Chronicle of the abbey, including lives of the twenty ..
Birds of Song and Story
by Elizabeth GrinnellSome barbarous peoples possess a rude taste for the beautiful plumage of birds, decorating their bodies in feathers of softest and brightest tints. But we have record of few, if any, savage tribes the world over which delight in bird melody. True, the savage may seek his food by sound, or even song, but to feast the ear on music for music's sake—ah..