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Excerpt from A Monograph of the Mollusca From the Great Oolite Chiefly From Coast and the Coast, Vol. 1 The authors of the present Monograph, after due consideration of the materials at their disposal, have thought fit to limit their illustrations to the Testacea of the Great or Bath Oolite, a term under which they would include the series of beds situated between the Fullers-earth strata upon which they repose, and the Bradford clay to which...

Excerpt from The Venerable Sir Adrian Fortescue: Knight of the Bath, Knight of St. John, Martyr Amongst the Martyrs of the time of Henry the Eighth, who were not depicted on the walls of the English College Church and who are therefore not included in the Decree that gave to fifty-four Martyrs the honours of the Blessed, are three Knights of the Order. Of St. John of Jerusalem. These are Sir Adrian Fortescue and Sir Thomas Dingley, who were b...

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Show Your face, if You dare." Clifford Goldstein was an angry young atheist, shouting at a God he didn't believe in. Of course, there are many people like Goldstein who wonder if there is any real evidence for a living God and His Redeemer Son. Here, Derek Morris introduces you to people who have had a dramatic encounter with the Messiah they didn't believe in. The Shiite Muslim, an African ancestor worshipper, and an obsessed novelist who fou...

Excerpt from The Last Illness of His Eminence Cardinal Wiseman I do not know when to date back for the com mencement of the Cardinal's last illness. On Sun day the l5th of January he suddenly sunk so low that he was in imminent danger of death for many hours. But though this complete exhaustion was most unexpected, he had been very far from well for some time before, and his state of health had been such as seriously to alarm his experienced ...

Excerpt from Y Cymmrodor, Vol. 28: The Magazine of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, TaliesinThe Book of Taliesin is a manuscript of the late thirteenth century containing a collection of poems rightly or wrongly attributed to Taliesin.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books...

Excerpt from The Condition of Catholics Under James I: Father Gerard's Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot The life and character of a witness are the grounds on which we base our estimate of his credibility. That he should have spoken of himself at great length and with many and minute details is a circumstance most favourable to the formation of an accurate judgment respecting him. Such is fortunately our position with regard to Father John Ger...

Excerpt from Advance Japan: A Nation Thoroughly in Earnest HE contest just concluded between Japan and China had the effect of directing public atten tion to the serious' side of the Japanese character. A people capable of waging warfare so systematically and successfully cannot fail to occupy a most prominent position' in the twentieth century, now so near its dawn. But though they have shown themselves to be well equipped for the fray, the ...

This book provides much needed insight into existing ideas and theories of collaboration, advancing a revised theoretical model and accompanying typologies that further our understanding of collaborative processes within the public sector.

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Excerpt from Life Reminiscences: Of an Old Lutheran Minister An autobiography is not the most popular style of writing, and it has even been said that some men write the history of their own lives because nobody else will do it. This may be true in part, when men are ambitious of notoriety without any merit, but when a man writes for his own amusement and that of his immediate friends, it is a wholesome recreation from severer studies, and sh...

Excerpt from Historical Papers There is no history of the Church of England which gives any adequate idea of the degradation into which religious Observances had fallen at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries, and the con sequence is that few people understand the immense debt of gratitude which they owe to Archbishop Laud for the recovery from that condition - a recovery almost wholly due to his indefatigable e...

Excerpt from Nature a Parable: A Poem, in Seven Books The present work was originally undertaken as a relief from engagements of a more laborious kind. It struck me that in all writers not of the very driest class, there are some things of an imaginative hue, and that I might therefore not disadvantageously employ my leisure hours in correcting and chastening whatever amount of imaginative tendencies I had myself, by noticing things of the ki...

Excerpt from Europe in the XIX Century (1815-1878) After Napoleon's first collapse in 1814 the Powers of Europe sent their representatives to a Congress at Vienna to rearrange the map. The Waterloo campaign did not materially influence the final settlement. The Congress expressed the right of the Great Powers to exercise a general control and inaugurated the Concert of Europe. It will be useful first to see what the Republic and the Empire h...

Excerpt from Notes of Spiritual Retreats and Instructions For He made me. I belong to Him. He has the right to me. Let Him say what He wills. Let Him ask of me what He pleases. It is ungenerous to make conditions. He has a right to all, because I am the work of His Hands. He made me with a purpose that I Should do His will. He has never changed. It is I who have changed. It is I who have been unmindful of the purpose for which He made me. But...

Excerpt from Sacred Lyrics Down in dim valleys may the traveller trace, (In musing wonder through the lonely place, ) Some silent stream, the glory of the ground, Where nature's beauties flourish all around. His eye at venture wanders o'er the scene, Regards this lily, then that tuft of green, Returns and re-surveys, and wanders still, From bud to herbage, and from tree to rill. But see! his eye has caught some favorite flower, Kindred ...

Excerpt from The Life and Martyrdom: Of Saint Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Legate of the Holy SeeIn addition to the help derived from Canon Robertson's edition of the origina documents, two or three further errors have been now rectified, which were pointed out by him in his Becket, a Biography.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis b...

Excerpt from Jesus the Son of Mary, or the Doctrine of the Catholic Church Upon the Incarnation of God the Son, Vol. 1: Considered in Its Bearings Upon the Reverence Shewn by Catholics to His Blessed Mother It may seem a bold thing to offer to the English public a Work like the present, which necessarily treats of such doctrinal questions, as may, to those unused to theology, appear intricate and uninteresting. To those who look at the title ...

Excerpt from Employee Training: A Study of Education and Training Departments in Various Corporations Apprentice, Apprenticeship Training, Special Training, Intensive and Part-time Training, Initial Special Training, Upgrading and Promotion Training, Special Training Depart ment, Floor Training, Trade Teaching Formula, Part-time Industrial School, Cooperative Instruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands o...