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3rd. Drank my morning draft at Harper's, and was told there that the soldiers were all quiet upon promise of pay. Thence to St. James's Park, back to Whitehall, where in a guard-chamber I saw about thirty or forty 'prentices of the City, who were taken at twelve o'clock last night and brought prisoners hither.

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Excerpt from Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F. R. S, Vol. 1 of 5: Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II. And James II., Comprising His Diary From 1659 to 1669, Deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A. B., From the Original Short-Hand Ms., In the Pepysian Library, and a Selection From His Private CorrespondYou may as well decipher afresh Pepys' Diary. I followed his sug gestion, and I have deciphered the original ms. To the best of...

At a time when religions are too often used to justify violence, this books tells a different and hopeful story of the growing co-operation of people of many faiths to work together for mutual understanding and peace and brings a new dimension to the history of the last centuryThe book highlights the World Congress of Faiths, founded by Francis Younghusband in 1936, the Parliaments of World Religions and many other organisations, including IAR...

The Sikh Gurus? message that there is only one God, although called by many names and that humanity is one- whatever our nationality, colour or creed -is urgently needed today, as well as the emphasis on peace and service of others.This book in a very readable way describes the lives of the Sikh Gurus and their teaching as it is recorded in the Sikh Holy Book, the Guru Granth Sahib. This book also tells the story of the Sikhs in the Punjab and...

No other book contains such a wide range of accessible, effective and inspiring self-calming techniques, drawn from traditions and literature from around the world, both secular and religious.With a different meditation or inspiration for each day of the year, this is a wonderfully inspiring collection that will open readers' hearts and mind and show them the way to find peace and contentment whatever their mood or situation. A fresh, attracti...

Excerpt from The History of Audley End: To Which Are Appended Notices of the Town and Parish of Saffron Walden in the County of EssexA few observations upon the arrangement of the following pages may be necessary, though no uniform plan in this respect is prescribed to topographers. The reader, then, should bear in mind, that the History of Audley End was originally my only object, some of the sheets having been printed off before I had contem...

Excerpt from Some Victorian and Georgian Catholics: Their Art and OutlookPoetry to-day is often distinguished by a ten dency to create verse without rhyme, and as far as I can see without reason. Fiction, with a few Excep tions, is pessimistic, unclean and unfortunately very clever. The Catholic writer, whether he be a poet or a novelist, has to make his art appeal to a hostile world, and he has also to be all the time m every detail a good Ca...

Excerpt from Some Victorian and Georgian Catholics: Their Art and OutlookPoetry to-day is often distinguished by a ten dency to create verse without rhyme, and as far as I can see without reason. Fiction, with a few Excep tions, is pessimistic, unclean and unfortunately very clever. The Catholic writer, whether he be a poet or a novelist, has to make his art appeal to a hostile world, and he has also to be all the time m every detail a good Ca...

Excerpt from The History of Audley End: To Which Are Appended Notices of the Town and Parish of Saffron Walden in the County of EssexA few observations upon the arrangement of the following pages may be necessary, though no uniform plan in this respect is prescribed to topographers. The reader, then, should bear in mind, that the History of Audley End was originally my only object, some of the sheets having been printed off before I had contem...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Peeps at the MightyFather. Now there are a good many people who always imagine that Mr. Wells is somewhere near to the top of the stars or somewhere not too far out of the suburbs. In w Christina Al berta's Father Mr. Wells studies a phenomenon that can be found in any suburb and I imagine that it might be found in any star.The phenomenon is of course lunacy and It gives Mr. Wells something to be quite angry about and it gives him...