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Excerpt from The Roman Catholic Church in Italy These feelings and words, these actions and laws, Ihave recorded in the pages of my book. Ihave obtained my knowledge of them, during a long residence in Italy, from many and from varied sources - from conversations with representative men of all classes, clerical and lay, from the daily press, from the addresses and speeches of public men, from the writings of scholars, and from what is said an...

Excerpt from Venetian Discourses, Drawn From the History, Art Customs of Venice About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy...

Excerpt from Two Speeches on Our Home and Colonial Affairs: Our National Resources, Their Present and Probable Future Condition, And the British Colonies, Their Present Condition and Future Prospects, (Delivered in Dundee) My Lord, Believing that no small ignorance existed as to the National Resources of the United Kingdom, and also as to the condition of the British Colonies and Dependencies, I resolved to give to my fellow-townsmen of Dun...

Excerpt from Through the Dolomities A sight that never fails to impress the traveller in Venice is that of the great mountains which bound the horizon to the north. They are not always visible, for the moisture laden atmosphere of the intervening lagoons and plains often hides them from view. But whenever seen, whether in winter and early spring, when they are covered with snow, or in summer and autumn, when rank behind rank appears against t...

Excerpt from Fra Paolo Sarpi: The Greatest of the Venetians The more I study the Life and Writings of Fra Paolo Sarpi, the more I am amazed at his superlative goodness of heart, and at the extraordinary versatility and magnitude of his powers. The words Madame Clara Novello used with reference to Count Cavour, are applicable also to him. "Now and then, " she says, "the Almighty sees fit to show what He can create under the name of a man, in H...

Excerpt from The Laws of Thought I. Philosophy, in its widest and most general acceptation, is that branch of human knowledge which has for its subject matter whatever concerns the welfare of mankind, viewed as rational existences. In its strict and most proper sense, it is the love of Wisdom, or, as Des Cartes expresses it, the study of Wisdom. According to Cicero, Philosophy is a search after the best state of life, and Seneca considers it ...

Excerpt from From Crypt and Choir About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the origin...

Excerpt from The Dead Calypso: And Other Verses By western shores oft Triston blows His sounding shell, and she who rose All wet And wanton from the deep, To make man's pulse with passion leap, Here on the wave in beauty glows. A herd upon the hillside lows, And where yon stream in music flows, There pan is piping to his sheep, By Western Shores. Here vine-crowned Bacchus doth repose, And nymphs and satyrs, like to those Of Tempe, fro...

Excerpt from Actuarial Theory: Notes for Students on the Subject-Matter Required in the Examinations of the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland, With Numerous Practical Examples and Exercises Students preparing for the Second Examinations of the Institute of Actuaries and of the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland have, to assist them at this stage of their studies, the Text Book of the Institute and Mr George King's ...

Excerpt from A Course of Lectures, on the Government, Constitution, and Laws of Scotland, From the Earliest Time In the Albert Institute, Dundee, nearly three years ago, I delivered a Course of Seven Lectures on the Government, Constitution, and Laws of Scotland. I adapted these lectures, as far as possible, to a popular audience, and was rewarded with an amount of success far exceeding my most sanguine expectations. Formerly, my intention wa...

Excerpt from Lectures, Legal, Political and Historical, on the Sciences of Law and Politics: Home and Foreign Affairs, And John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, and His Times About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally rec...

Excerpt from Count Campello and Catholic Reform in Italy Count Campello is the founder of the Italian Catholic Reformed Church. Who he is, and what that Church is, are well known in Italy, where his personal character is held in high esteem, and where a steadily increasing number of his countrymen are reaping the fruits of his self-denying labour. By them he is recognised as breathing the spirit of Arnold of Brescia, Savonarola of Florence, P...

Excerpt from Concise Historical Proofs Respecting the Gael of Alban: Or Highlanders The Author displays great ingenuity in seeking to establish these points, and there is no more interesting portion of his book than that touching on language, in which he shows the old Caledonian significance of local names even in the south, which existed long before an Irish-Scot, or Wanderer, entered on the sacred soil." From "The Gentleman's Magazine." "...

Excerpt from The Papal Conquest: Italy's Warning "Wake Up, John Bull!"Roman Catholic Church in Italy, during her struggles for independence and unity, one unbroken record of cruelty and wrong - not only lost the respect.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 uses state-of-the-art...

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