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Book cover of Buddhism

Buddhism

In Its Connexion with Brāhmanism, and Hindūism, and In its Contrast with Christianity

by Sir Monier Monier-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2016

In my recent work on Brāhmanism I have traced the progress of Indian religious thought through three successive stages—called by me Vedism, Brāhmanism, and Hindūism—the last including the three subdivisions of Ṡaivism, Vaishṇavism, and Ṡāktism. Furthermore I have attempted to prove that...
Book cover of Le Mort d'Arthur: Volume 1
by Thomas Sir Malory
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

THE Morte D'Arthur was finished, as the epilogue tells us, in the ninth year of Edward IV. , i. e. between March 4, 1469 and the same date in 1470. It is thus, fitly enough, the last important English book written before the introduction of printing into this country, and since no manuscript of it has...
Book cover of On the Art of Reading
by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

In the third book of the "Ethics", and in the second chapter, Aristotle, dealing with certain actions which, though bad in themselves, admit of pity and forgiveness because they were committed involuntarily, through ignorance, instances 'the man who did not know a subject was forbidden, like Aeschylus...
Book cover of Vikram and the Vampire; Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance
by Richard Francis Sir Burton, Isabel Lady Burton
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

The Baital-Pachisi, or Twenty-five Tales of a Baital is the history of a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which inhabited and animated dead bodies. It is an old, and thoroughly Hindu, Legend composed in Sanskrit, and is the germ which culminated in the Arabian Nights, and which inspired the “Golden...
Book cover of The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
by Arthur Conan Doyle, Elizabeth Gaskell, Sir Walter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016

The first-ever collection of Victorian Christmas ghost stories, culled from rare 19th-century periodicals During the Victorian era, it became traditional for publishers of newspapers and magazines to print ghost stories during the Christmas season for chilling winter reading by the fireside...
Book cover of Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays
by Sir Sidney Lee
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

The eleven papers which are collected here were written between 1899 and 1905. With the exception of one, entitled "Aspects of Shakespeare's Philosophy," which is now printed for the first time, they were published in periodicals in the course of those six years. The articles treat of varied aspects...
Book cover of The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
by Arthur Mee, John Alexander Sir Hammerton
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011

And Josias held the feast of the Passover in Jerusalem unto his Lord, the 14th day of the first month of the 18th year of his reign, and ordered the Levites, the holy ministers of Israel, to hallow themselves unto the Lord, and set the Holy Ark of the Lord in the house that King Solomon had built. And...
Book cover of La Monadologie
by Désiré Nolen, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Language: French
Release Date: April 11, 2016

Avant d’aborder le commentaire de la doctrine de Leibniz, essayons de nous placer, par un effort de pensée, dans la disposition d’esprit où se trouvait l’auteur de la Monadologie lorsqu’il conçut son système ; ou plutôt, puisque la doctrine des monades n’est qu’une des plus célèbres...
Book cover of Hymn to Kāli Karpūrādi-Stotra
by Arthur Avalon (Sir John George Woodroffe)
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

THIS celebrated Kaula Stotra, which is now translated from the Sanskrit for the first time, is attributed to Mahākāla Himself. The Text used is that of the edition published at Calcutta in 1899 by the Sanskrit Press Depository, with a commentary in Sanskrit by the late Mahāmahopādhyāya Khanātha...
Book cover of Commentaries on the Laws of England
by Sir William Blackstone
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

THE following sheets contain the substance of a course of lectures on the laws of England, which were read by the author in the university of Oxford. His original plan took it's rise in the year 1753: and, notwithstanding the novelty of such an attempt in this age and country, and the prejudices usually...
Book cover of Fénelon, ses écrits politiques, religieux et littéraires
by Désiré Nisard
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015

On a vu dans la querelle du quiétisme le trait principal de Fénelon. La même chose a été comme l’aiguillon de ses grandes qualités et la cause de ses erreurs, soit de doctrine, soit de conduite : c’est cette confiance au sens propre qu’il semble représenter...
Book cover of Alexander Pope: English Men of Letters
by Sir Leslie Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

No greater teaching force has ever been discovered than the story and no one has ever lived who used that force so skillfully as did our Great Teacher. It is not strange, then, that among all the stories that have ever been written or told none are so dear to us as the stories and legends which center...
Book cover of On the Art of Writing: Lectures Delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914
by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

By recasting these lectures I might with pains have turned them into a smooth treatise. But I prefer to leave them (bating a very few corrections and additions) as they were delivered. If, as the reader will all too easily detect, they abound no less in repetitions than in arguments dropped and left...
Book cover of Les Classes moyennes en Angleterre et la bourgeoisie en France
by Désiré Nisard
Language: French
Release Date: August 11, 2015

Les gens qui visitent pour la première fois un pays étranger n’y sont frappés tout d’abord que de deux sortes de choses, ou des différences qui leur semblent à l’avantage de leur nation, ou de celles qu’ils croient à l’avantage de ce pays. Le...
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