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Henri Dominique Lacordaire - A biographical sketch is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. ...

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Excerpt from The Revival of Priestly Life: In the Seventeenth Century in France, a Sketch The following pages must only be read from the point of view from which they were written - i.e. as a mere sketch of one part of a very important period of Church history. They do not in the smallest degree affect to comprehend the great-subject placed at their head, enough if they should lead people to read and study for themselves some parts of a min o...

Excerpt from Bossuet and His Contemporaries He led him about, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His Eye. - deut. Xxxii. 10. Antoine lived in his house, he soon made a home of his uncle's library, and before he was seven years old began to look upon books as the companions and chief interest of his life, to turn to them as his best amuse ment and greatest pleasure, and consequently study became a passion, a craving of his whole b...

Excerpt from A Dominican Artist: A Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Père Besson of the Order of St. Dominic God saw every thing that He had made, and behold it was very good 3 and from that time the wondrous gift of a creative power has been bestowed upon men, a power so exquisite, so precious, so mighty for good to him who possesses it, and to all who come under its spell, that it may indeed be called akin to grace. That among men too often no...

Excerpt from Henri Dominique Lacordaire: A Biographical SketchThis sketch of a great man and his career has been framed entirely upon his own writings - his Conferences and others - the contemporary literature, and the two Memoirs of him published by his dearest friend the Comte de Montalembert, and by his disciple and companion Dominican, Pére Chocarme. I have aimed only at producing as true and as vivid a portrait of Lacordaire as lay in my ...

Excerpt from Christian Biographies T has not been possible, in writing this Life of Fenelon, to steer clear Of the repetition Of certain matters dwelt on in the Life of Bossuet, while, on the other hand, some subjects have been rather glanced at than dwelt upon, because they have been already handled in connection with the Bishop Of Meaux. The immense amount Of correspondence and Of Me'moz'res, or contemporary records, is a veritable em barra...

Excerpt from A Christian Painter of the Nineteenth Century: Being the Life of Hippolyte Flandrin Tion as one of its noblest objects, and who desire to see the walls of our churches an abiding lesson to the eye of the faithful, are acquainted with the name of Hippolyte Flandrin, and more or less with his works. But among the numbers who have admired and studied his paintings in Saint Germain des Prés, Saint S'everin, or Saint Vincent de Paul, ...

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This early works on Maigre cookery has been re-edited with the addition of a good many more, chiefly Italian recipes. Some few, not strictly maigre in their preparation, have been added, because the collection has been found useful, not merely for maigre season, but for invalids and for savoury dinner dishes. There is a very general feeling at the present time that English people have used more meat food than is either wholesome or thrifty, an...

This early works on Maigre cookery has been re-edited with the addition of a good many more , chiefly italian recipes. Some few, not strictly maigre in their preparation, have been added, because the collection has been found useful, not merely for maigre season, but for invalids and for savory dinner dishes. There is a very general feeling at the present time that English people have used more meat food than is either wholesome or thrifty, an...