Excerpt: Life is a gift of very unequal distribution. I am not speaking merely of length of life, though that is an important element in the case: there may be sad and quiet years which do not count: we have known existences which crept on in one dull round, from petty pleasure to petty pleasure, from monotonous occupation to monotonous occupation, never roused to storm by any noble passion, never thrilled by an electric touch of [Pg 6]sympathy.
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The Complete Book of Cheese The Complete Book of Cheese -
Cheese market day in a town in the north of Holland. All the cheese-fanciers are out, thumping the cannon-ball Edams and the millstone Goudas with their bare red knuckles, plugging in with a hollow steel tool for samples. In Holland the business of judging a crumb of cheese has been taken with great seriousness for centuries
Illustrated History of Furniture Illustrated History of Furniture
by Frederick Litchfield
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In the following pages the Author has placed before the reader an account of the changes in the design of Decorative Furniture and Woodwork, from the earliest period of which we have any reliable or certain record until the present time
A Treatise on Good Works A Treatise on Good Works - The Occasion of the Work. -- Luther did not impose himself as reformer upon the Church. In the course of a conscientious performance of the duties of his office, to which he had been regularly and divinely called, and without any urging on his part, he attained to this position by inward necessity
Light, Life and Love Light, Life and Love - TO most English readers the "Imitation of Christ" is the representative of mediaeval German mysticism. In reality, however,
this beautiful little treatise belongs to a period when that movement had nearly spent itself.
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
by John Bunyan
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Children, Grace be with you. Amen. I being taken from you in presence, and so tied up that I cannot perform that duty, that from God doth lie upon me to you-ward, for your farther edifying and building up in faith and holiness, etc
Two Old Faiths Two Old Faiths - The system of religious belief which is generally called Hinduism is, on many accounts, Hinduism deserving of study.eminently deserving of study
Origin and Nature of Emotions Origin and Nature of Emotions
by George W. Crile
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Pain, like other phenomena, was probably evolved for a particular purpose surely for the good of the individual; like fear and worry, it frequently is injurious
The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) - When Count Tolstoi was excommunicated by the Holy Synod of Russia because "he preached the teachings which are contrary to the Christian faith," the world was divided in opinion and sympathy into two parts
The Healthy Life Cook Book The Healthy Life Cook Book
by Florence Daniel
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This little book has been compiled by special and repeated request. Otherwise, I should have hesitated to add to the already existing number of vegetarian cookery books