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William Stearns Davis A Friend Of Caesar A Tale Of The Fall Of The Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. Part 2

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Cornelia Was At Baiae, The Famous Watering-Place, Upon The Classic Neapolitan Bay,--Which Was The Brighton Or Newport Of The Roman. Here Was The Haunt Of The Sybarites, Whose Gay Barks Skimmed The Shallow Waters Of The Lucrine Lake; And Not Far Off Slumbered In Its Volcanic Hollow That Other Lake, Avernus, Renowned In Legend And Poetry, Through Whose Caverns, Fable Had It, Lay The Entrance To The World Of The Dead. The Whole Country About Was One City Of Stately Villas, Of Cool Groves, Of Bright Gardens; A Huge Pleasure World, Where Freedom Too Often Became License; Where The Dregs Of The Nectar Cup Too Often Meant Physical Ruin And Moral Death. [more]

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S. Rappoport History Of Egypt From 330 B.C. To The Present Time, Volume 12 (Of 12) (Fiscle Part-X)

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The Traditional History Of The Christian Church Has Generally Maintained That The Crusades Were Due Solely To Religious Influence And Sprang From Ideal And Moral Motives: Those Hundreds Of Thousands Of Warriors Who Went Out To The East Were Religious Enthusiasts, Prompted by The Pious Longings Of Their Hearts, And Peter The Hermit, It Was Claimed, Had Received a Divine Message To Call Christendom To Arms, To Preach A Crusade Against The Unbelievers And Take Possession Of The Holy Sepulchre. [more]

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William Stearns Davis A Friend Of Caesar A Tale Of The Fall Of The Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.

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After The Book Was Planned And In Part Written, It Was Discovered That Archdeacon Farrar Had In His Story Of "Darkness And Dawn" A Scene, "Onesimus And The Vestal," Which Corresponds Very Closely To The Scene, "Agias And The Vestal," In This Book; But The Latter Incident Was Too Characteristically Roman Not To Risk Repetition. If It Is Asked Why Such A Book As This Is Desirable After Those Noble Fictions, "Darkness And Dawn" And "Quo Vadis," The Reply Must Be That These Books Necessarily Take And Interpret The Christian Point Of View. And They Do Well; But The Pagan Point Of View Still Needs Its Interpretation, At Least As A Help To An Easy Apprehension Of The Life And Literature Of The Great Age Of The Fall Of The Roman Republic. This Is The Aim Of "A Friend Of Caesar." The Age Of Caesar Prepared The Way For The Age Of Nero, When Christianity Could Find A World In a State Of Such Culture, Unity, And Social Stability That It Could Win An Adequate And Abiding Triumph. [more]

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William Stearns Davis A Friend Of Caesar A Tale Of The Fall Of The Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.

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If this book serves to show that Classical Life presented many phases akin to our own, it will not have been written in vain. After the book was planned and in part written, it was discovered that Archdeacon Farrar had in his story of Darkness and Dawn a scene, Onesimus and the Vestal, which corresponds very closely to the scene, Agias and the Vestal, in this book; but the latter incident was too characteristically Roman not to risk repetition. If it is asked why such a book as this is desirable after those noble fictions, Darkness and Dawn and QuoVadis, the reply must be that these books necessarily take and interpret the Christian point of view. And they do well; but the Pagan point of view still needs its interpretation, at least as a help to an easy apprehension of the life and literature of the great age of the Fall of the Roman Republic. This is the aim of A Friend of Caesar. The Age of Caesar prepared the way for the Age of Nero, when Christianity could find a world in a state of such culture, unity, and social stability that it could win an adequate and abiding triumph. Great care has been taken to keep to strict historical probability; but in one scene, the Expulsion of the Tribunes, there is such a confusion of accounts in the authorities themselves that I have taken some slight liberties. W.S. D.Harvard University, January 16, [more]

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William Stearns Davis A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.

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William Stearns Davis (April 30, 1877 – February 15, 1930) was an American educator, historian, and author. He [more]

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John Ruskin Time and Tide by Weare and TyneTwenty-five Letters to a Working Man of Sunderland on the Laws of Work

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John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. [more]

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Various . A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time

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After that I had accomplished and finished divers histories, as well of contemplation as of other historical and worldly acts of great conquerors and princes, and also of certain books of ensamples and doctrine, many noble and divers gentlemen of this realm of England, came and demanded me, many and ofttimes, why that I did not cause to be imprinted the noble history of the Sancgreal, and of the most renowned Christian king, [more]

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Walter Shaw Sparrow Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day

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Walter Shaw Sparrow (1862–1940) was a British writer on art and architecture with a special interest in British sporting artists.[2] Sparrow was born in 1862, younger son of James Sparrow JP FGS (1824–1902)[3] and his wife Caroline (1828–1904),[4] of Gwersyllt Hill, near Wrexham, Wales.[5] In 1855, James Sparrow had become proprietor of Ffrwd Works,[6] a large colliery, ironworks and brickworks between Brymbo and Cefn-y-bedd which he expanded into one of the most prominent businesses in North Wales.[7] During his boyhood Sparrow got to know many of his father's colliers, furnacemen, blacksmiths, carpenters and farm workers, and gained a respect and admiration for the men he described as "so big, strong, simple-hearted, and kind".[1] He made a study of the cruel conditions endured by coal miners and the fact that nationally over a thousand colliers were killed every year in accidents, and this engendered in him a desire to see fairness for working men.[1] [more]

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J. E. Acland Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. with an account of the Harmonies

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"How happy a king were I, if I had many more such workmen and workwomen in my kingdom! Their [more]

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W. B. Laughead The Marvelous Exploits of Paul Bunyan As Told in the Camps of the White Pine Lumbermen for Generations During Which Time

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PAUL Bunyan is the hero of lumbercamp whoppers that have been handed down for generations. These stories, never [more]

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