Percy: 428 books

IT was Thursday afternoon—Make and Mend Clothes Day as it is known in the Royal Navy. H.M.S. "Royal Oak," a Super-Dreadnought now relegated to the second class, lay at moorings off Singapore. Two cables' length ahead of her swung her sister ship the "Repulse," flying the flag...

Includes The First World War On The Western Front 1914-1915 Illustrations Pack with 101 maps, plans, and photos. Major-General Ernest Swinton had already had a long and illustrious career in the British Army before the advent of the First World War in 1914. Appointed as the official war correspondent...

Includes The First World War On The Western Front 1914-1915 Illustrations Pack with 101 maps, plans, and photos. Major-General Ernest Swinton had already had a long and illustrious career in the British Army before the advent of the First World War in 1914. Appointed as the official war correspondent...

St. Irvyne; or, The Rosicrucian retells the destiny of Wolfstein, a solitary wanderer and a disillusioned outcast from society who seeks to kill himself. After he is saved by the monks, he encounters Ginotti, an alchemist of the Rosicrucian, or Rose Cross Order who seeks to impart the secret of immortality.

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Pietro Zastrozzi, an outlaw, and his two servants, Bernardo and Ugo, disguised in masks, abduct Verezzi from the inn near Munich where he lives and take him to a cavern hideout. Verezzi is locked...

Country craftworkers have traditionally relied on tools that evolved over centuries. A revival of interest in these handmade implements has led to an increased demand for information on craftsmen's techniques; but up to now, mention of their tools has been incidental and incomplete. This book examines...

A work of history, culture, politics, economics, packed with period photographs and period insights.

Clergy have a pivotal role in creating and nurturing church communities in which all people can grow up into Christ. This book explores the nature of that role by considering key similarities with the essential but often conflicting demands of motherhood. Like mothers, clergy need to preserve and...

"The Occult Word" is the first book published (in 1881) by A. P. Sinnett from the correspondence with the two Tibetan Adepts who were sponsoring the newborn Theosophical Society. Sinnett gives lengthy excerpts from such correspondence and also relates in detail many of the occult phenomena Mme. Blavatsky...

On peut dire avec vérité que Godwin a été traité injustement par ceux de ses compatriotes dont la faveur dispense les distinctions temporelles. S’il avait consacré ses hautes facultés à flatter l’égoïsme des riches, s’il avait soutenu ces doctrines auxquelles les puissants doivent...

La princesse Charlotte est morte. Elle n’a plus la faculté de se mouvoir, de penser ni de sentir. Elle est aussi inerte que l’argile avec laquelle elle ne tardera pas à se mêler. C’est une chose terrible de savoir qu’elle est un cadavre en décomposition, elle qui,...

Extrait : "Je dirai tout d'abord que les pouvoirs que l'occultisme confère à ses adeptes renferment un certain contrôle sur les forces de la nature, dont la science ne connaît absolument rien, et à l'aide duquel un adepte peut tenir conversation avec un autre, quelle que soit la distance qui les sépare sur la surface de la terre."

Camarades, je ne suis pas Irlandais, et cependant j’ai de la sympathie pour vous. J’espère qu’il ne se trouvera parmi vous personne pour lire cet appel avec prévention ou avec dédain, parce que son auteur est un Anglais ; certes je crois que pas un de vous ne pensera de la sorte. Les Irlandais...