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Contents: The Epicurean Pursuit of PleasureStoic Self-Control by LawThe Platonic Subordination of Lower to HigherThe Aristotelian Sense of ProportionThe Christian Spirit of Love William De Witt Hyde, the seventh president of Bowdoin College (1885-1917), was born in Winchendon, Massachusetts, on September 23, 1858. After earning his bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1879, he continued his theological studies at Union Theological Seminary (1879-...

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An account of the history and myth of this 7th century Irish bishop. The author's scholarly analysis shows us how to interpret the hagiographical text and draw out a wealth of knowledge that would be missed by anyone who would read the extant text as if it were modern biography or who would dismiss it on the ground that it contains little or no historical data.

John Paul Jones, like other distinguished men of his day, kept copies of his correspondence, preserving many of the letters he received and autograph drafts of his own private and official letters. An exhaustive examination of all the documents in the Government archives of the United States, England, France, and Russia, and of all those existing in a variety of private archives and public libraries, has brought to light an astonishing amount ...

John Paul Jones, like other distinguished men of his day, kept copies of his correspondence, preserving many of the letters he received and autograph drafts of his own private and official letters. An exhaustive examination of all the documents in the Government archives of the United States, England, France, and Russia, and of all those existing in a variety of private archives and public libraries, has brought to light an astonishing amount ...

In this new edition of the most comprehensive guide to the trails of Virginia, de Hart gives directions to and descriptions of more than 1, 400 trails, noting nearby points of interest, botanical and zoological features, and characteristics of the region's terrain.

Here is a fascinating study by L. Sprague de Camp of controversial and often little-known happenings in science and technology, with an emphasis on the wayward activities of those who dabble in fringe science.The Fringe of the Unknown is in three parts. The first, "Our Ingenious Forebears, " examines some of the mysteries and oddities surrounding ancient technologies. Occultists and pseudoscientists often attribute extraordinary knowledge and ...

With his German family, Eli crosses the Atlantic on The Charming Nancy. From Philadelphia and Germantown, oxen pull their wagon into Penn's Woods, where they make their new home in the Skippack area. Neighbors help them cut trees and build a log cabin.Eli loves outdoor work and play, the wild animals, and building a bench for his mom. But Mom says he must go to school. Though Eli expects the teacher to be ugly and cross, Master Christopher Doc...

Lydia, a young Amish girl, lives on a farm near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Join Lydia as she works on a small hooked mat, watches wagons coming down the road, listens to stories Granny tells, holds the new baby at Cousin Kate's, and chases Nate's runaway pig. 76 pages.

This is a no-nonsense, practical guide to cooking virtually every kind of wild game with everything from simple recipes to gourmet level preparation.

In 1955, inspired by a televised automobile advertisement, twelve-year-old Sara Hellerud and her twin sister Susie took up dancing. Like the pair of huckstering ballerinas who sailed over the Buick, they vaulted over milk cans and barbed wire. The TV dancers had provided an irresistible contrast to the workaday world of their family's dairy farm in Polk County, Wisconsin. This and other fantasies shared by the twins enabled them to dance throu...

The linguistic study of storytelling in everyday life has been rapidly expanding. This book provides a critical engagement with this field of narrative studies, addressing long-standing questions such as definitions of narrative and views of narrative structure but also more recent preoccupations such as narrative discourse and narrative language.