October 09, 2005
A History of the Civil War from 1865--Almost a Primary Source
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Moliere's Last Play
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Robert Browning: A Poet Worth Knowing
Robert Browning: How to Know Him
A combination critical appreciation, biography and anthology of some of Brownings very best work. By far the most difficult of the Victorians, and likely one of the most difficult poets ever, Browning is a poet who has a surface smoothness that overlays enormous depths. He repays close reading many times over, and, at its best, his poetry is absolutely gorgeous.
One has only to glance at the printed page of _My Last Duchess_, and see how few of the lines end in punctuation points, to discover the method employed when a poet wishes to write a very strict measure in a very free manner.
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The California Missions
The Penance of Magdalena and Other Tales of the California Missions
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A Biography of St. Augustine
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October 06, 2005
Anna's Story
The memoirs of the governess of the children of the King of Siam.
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October 05, 2005
Guides On-Line
Among other things you'll find at this site at self-guided tours to a number of different battlefields. I note New Market, Second Manassas, Ball's Bluff, and Cedar Creek, in particular.
Not my cup of tea, but I suspect there are those who would appreciate these things. (Far more detail than any other than the die-hard fan can easily endure.)
Sample from second Manassas:
0300, King's Division may have withdrawn down Pageland Lane toward Manassas. And on the same day, between 0300 and 1000, Early's and Forno's Brigades of Lawton's Division moved into the fields northwest of the intersection about sunrise. The 13th and 31st Virginia were advanced as pickets just east of Stuart Hill on the other side of the nursery. Early was protecting Jackson's flank while looking for Longstreet. His men skirmished with the Pennsylvania Bucktails of Reynolds' Division.During 1000 to 1200, Longstreet's Corps arrived from Thoroughfare Gap. He immediately placed Hood's Division in this area:
On approaching the field some of Brigadier General Hood's batteries were ordered into 9 position and his division was deployed on the right and left of the turnpike at right angles with it, and supported by . . . Evans' Brigade.
Reilly's Battery (Rowan Artillery) went into position on the ridge east of the nursery (Stuart Hill).Wilcox's Division went into line on Hood's left (north).
Kemper's Division deployed south of Hood to the Manassas Gap Railroad Line.
D. R. Jones' Division moved down Pageland Lane to the south opposite Dawkin's Branch on the Manassas-Gainesville Road.
Then on 29 August at 1200 Lee established his headquarters on Stuart Hill (known as Munroe's Hill in 1862), just south of the turnpike.
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September 30, 2005
For Fans of Thomas á Kempis
The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes
Not a work that I am familiar with. I'll have to spend a weekend or so with it.
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Science Fiction Studies:Full Texts of Sold-Out Back Issues
For those who take their Science Fiction somewhat more seriously.
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Washington Irving
Page images of the 1861 Edition of the Collected Works of Washington Irving. Includes his biography of George Washington, his study of the Alhambra and of Islam, and the Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, etc.
Nice place to start thinking about the season--"Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is always a nice seasonal treat.
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Now Available
It's not the definitive ICS, and it is from the 1922 redaction known to have been modified for the sake of the living by her sister. Nevertheless, if you need something quick, easy, on-line, and in public domain, here's your text. The words that remain are those of St. Therese. Much of her sister Pauline's editing was merely deletion of personal references and remarks she thought inappropriate. (Thus leading those who have not read the definitive version to think of St. Therese as a little saccharine and a little over-pious. Her sister Pauline was a great fan and a tremendous spin-doctor in the short run, but may have done her damage in the long-run.
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September 28, 2005
Podcasts for Christ
Against a dictatorship of relativism
Look at the supercool array of Podcasts found by Mr. Thakur. Thank you sir.
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September 27, 2005
The Spoken Word Archive
Browse Top Level > Audio > Open Source Audio > Spoken Word
At Open Source Audio--A number of readily available books--and thanks to the efforts and contributions of volunteers such as Maria Lectrix noted below, this will only increase. This is the greatest find (for me) since Distributed Proofreaders.
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September 24, 2005
Another Key Text in "Japanese Literature"
I honestly don't even know how to describe and typify this work. It isn't Japanese because it is by Lafacadio Hearn, a would-be Japanese from ?San Francisco.
Kokoro means "heart" and it includes a number of glimpses into Japanese culture at the time. (read more about Hearn here).
Suffice it to say that this is a major work in the genre. Gutenberg has had some pretty hot properties of recent date.
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History of Mystery
Some fairly important mysteries have already made it to Gutenberg, but this is the first I've heard of R. Austin Freeman's The Red Thumb Mark. Part of the "Impossible Crime" Movement and featuring Dr.Thorndyke, this is a critical publication for those interested in the development of the mystery.
With this publication there were three other Thorndyke mysteries--The Uttermost Farthing, John Thorndyke's Cases, and The Mystery of 31 New Inn. I must confess ignorance as the the first and last of these--so more new good reading.
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September 23, 2005
Rashomon
Probably the single most famous Japanese story of all time. Made into one of the most copied Japanese films of the great master Akira Kurasawa. And relentlessly copied in literature. If you read only one piece of Japanese literature, you owe it to yourself to become acquainted with this strange, haunting, frightening little tale.
later I see I originally neglected to mention that this story is by Akutagawa, often nicknamed "the Japanese Poe." But perhaps a much more important figure in Japan than Poe was in the U.S.
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September 18, 2005
John Mason Neale--A Romance
Theodora Phranza; or, the Fall of Constantinople, by John Mason Neale (1913)
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At Long Last--Another Ebook No One Cares About!
Finally an e-edition of the famous complementary volume to Dream of the Red Chamber. Like Red Chamber The Scholars is an 18th century novel in the realist tradition.
A sample from the very beginning:
from The Scholars
Wu Ching-tzu
The idea expressed in this poem is the commonplace one that in human life riches, rank, success and fame are external things. Men will risk their lives in the search for them; yet once they have them within their grasp, the taste is no better than chewed tallow. But from ancient times till now, how many have accepted this?However, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty 1 a really remarkable man was born. His name was Wang Mien, and he lived in a village in Chuchi County in Chekiang. When he was seven his father died, but his mother took in sewing so that he could study at the village school. Soon three years had passed and Wang Mien was ten. His mother called him to her and said, “Son, it's not that I want to stand in your way. But since your father died and left me a widow, I have had nothing coming in. Times are hard, and fuel and rice are expensive. Our old clothes and our few sticks of furniture have been pawned or sold. We have nothing to live on but what I make by my sewing. How can I pay for your schooling? There's nothing for it but to set you to work looking after our neighbour's buffalo. You'll be making a little money every month, and you'll get your meals there too. You start tomorrow.”
“Yes, mother,” said Wang Mien. “I find sitting in school boring anyway. I'd rather look after buffaloes. If I want to study, I can take a few books along to read.” So that very night the matter was decided.
The next morning his mother took him to the Chin family next door. Old Chin gave them some breakfast, and when they had finished he led out a water buffalo and made it over to Wang Mien.
“Two bow shots from my gate is the lake,” he said, pointing outside. “And by the lake is a belt of green where all the buffaloes of the village browse. There are a few dozen big willows there too, so that it is quiet, shady and cool; and if the buffalo is thirsty it can drink at the water's edge. You can play there, son; but don't wander off. I shall see that you get rice and vegetables twice a day; and each morning I shall give you a few coppers to buy a snack to eat while you're out. Only you must work well. I hope you'll find this satisfactory.”
Wang Mien's mother thanked Old Chin and turned to go home. Her son saw her to the gate, and there she straightened his clothes for him.
“Mind now, don't give them any reason to find fault with you,” she charged him. “Go out early and come back at dusk. I don't want to have to worry about you.”
Wang Mien nodded assent. Then, with tears in her eyes, she left him.
From this time onwards, Wang Mien looked after Old Chin's buffalo; and every evening he went home to sleep. Whenever the Chin family gave him salted fish or meat, he would wrap it up in a lotus leaf and take it to his mother. He also saved the coppers he was given each day to buy a snack with, and every month or so would seize an opportunity to go to the village school to buy some old books from the book-vendor making his rounds. Every day, when he had tethered the buffalo, he would sit down beneath the willows and read.
So three or four years quickly passed. Wang Mien studied and began to see things clearly. One sultry day in early summer, tired after leading the buffalo to graze, he sat down on the grass. Suddenly dense clouds gathered, and there was a heavy shower of rain. Then the black storm clouds fringed with fleecy white drifted apart, and the sun shone through, bathing the whole lake in crimson light. The hills by the lake were blue, violet and emerald. The trees, freshly washed by the rain, were a lovelier green than ever. Crystal drops were dripping from a dozen lotus buds in the lake, while beads of water rolled about the leaves.
As Wang Mien watched, he thought, “The ancients said, 'In a beautiful scene a man feels he is part of a picture.' How true! What a pity there is no painter here to paint these sprays of lotus. That would be good.” Then he reflected, “There's nothing a man can't learn. Why shouldn't I paint them myself?”
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September 16, 2005
Finally. . . Soseki
Soseki Natsume's Botchan on-line. One of the great Japanese Novelists, one of his great novels.
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September 10, 2005
The Death-Wake
Okay, I'll admit it. I include this one merely for one of the more bizarre titles I've seen in a long time:
"The Death-Wake or Lunacy; A Necromaunt in Three Chimeras"
Very, very odd indeed. With an intro by Andrew Lang.
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The PreInklings
A novel by Maurice Baring, the third member of the "PreInklings" consisting of Chesterton, Belloc, and their associates. You don't often find Baring's stuff on the web or elsewhere, so I thought I'd alert you.
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September 05, 2005
Sorry, One More
It's on days like these that you can tell I run this blog for me. I collect all these bits and pieces and put them into posts so that when I've forgotten where they are in my bookmarks, etc., I'll have a repository. Sorry.
But this site features a large number of e-texts--some by John W. Cample, Alan E. Nourse, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and Andre Norton. All are claimed to be copyright cleared.
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Against the Neo-Malthusians
An interesting text against birth control. I do not know its vintage, though it strikes me that much of the advise is incorrect and some of the physiology odd--so it may be turn of the century. (GSB is quoted--another clue.) It has this striking paragraph toward the end:
from Birth Control
Halliday G. Sutherland M.D.There are thousands who know little of the Catholic or of any other faith, and thousands who believe the Catholic Church to be everything except what it is. These people have no infallible rule of faith and morals, and when confronted, as they now are, by a dangerous, insidious campaign in favour of birth control, they do not react consistently or at all. It was therefore thought advisable to issue this statement in defence of the position of the Catholic Church; but the reader should remember that the teaching of the Church on this matter is held by her members to be true, not merely because it agrees with the notions of all right-thinking men and women, not because it is in harmony with economic, statistical, social, and biological truth, but principally because they know this teaching to be an authoritative declaration of the law of God. The Ten Commandments have their pragmatic justification; they make for the good of the race; but the Christian obeys them as expressions of the Divine Will.
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Another E-Book Link
I found this yesterday and didn't quite know what to make of it. Was this an evangelical Matthew Fox? What exactly is Christian Hedonism?
But rather than continue to withhold, I thought you all might like to go and make your own evaluation. Given that it is evangelical, it could be anywhere in the spectrum from strongly anti-Catholic to nearly Catholic in sensibility. My sense of what I've seen is that the focus is "ecumenical."
So without further ado, I give you the library of the Desiring God foundation
A small sample from a book on fasting:
from A Hunger for God: Desiring God Through Fasting and Prayer John PiperBeware of books on fasting. The Bible is very careful to warn us
about people who “advocate abstaining from foods, which God
created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know
the truth” (1 Timothy 4:1-3). The apostle Paul asks with dismay,
“Why . . . do you submit yourself to decrees, such as ‘Do not handle,
do not taste, do not touch’?” (Colossians 2:20-21). He is
jealous for the full enjoyment of Christian liberty. Like a great
declaration of freedom over every book on fasting flies the banner,
“Food will not commend us to God; we are neither the worse
if we do not eat, nor the better if we do eat” (1 Corinthians 8:8).
There once were two men. One said, “I fast twice a week”; the
other said, “God be merciful to me a sinner.” Only one went
down to his house justified (Luke 18:12-14).The discipline of self-denial is fraught with dangers—
perhaps only surpassed by the dangers of indulgence. These also
we are warned about: “All things are lawful for me, but I will not
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September 04, 2005
I Beg One Last Indulgence
For the Antiquarians--the online works of William Morris. Arguably a better poet and designer than prose artist. Nevertheless, once you slip into the oddities of style, there is something wonderful about William Morris's work. Definitely for the medievalists and pseudo-medievalists amongst us. Waters of the Wondrous Isles, translations of Old French Romances and Icelandic sagas, and some very, very, very fine poetry.
And for those more modern, a relatively early work by Andre Norton.
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Another Amazing Compendium of Books
I'm not certain what all the titles here have to do with one another, but there's sure a lot of them.
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For Only the Most Inveterately Irish
Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood" Weird study of Dracula.
Sample:
from Dracula's Crypt:"The Metrocolonial Vampire"
Joseph ValenteA founding insight of the Irish Dracula school of criticism has been that Harker's observations in Transylvania refer in whole or in part to the features of life in Ireland in the nineteenth century.3 I think it would be more accurate to say that Harker's observations in Transylvania seem intended to echo or recall prominent treatises, received wisdom, and well-worn remarks, not to mention canards about Ireland. His comment on the immodesty of a peasant woman's native dress, for example, rehearses Edmund Spenser's strictures on Irish women's attire in A View of the Present State of Ireland.4 Harker's complaint about dilatory trains and his comments on the "idolatrous" peasants kneeling by a roadside shrine in a "self-surrender of devotion" (11), like figures "in old missals" (15), would have been familiar enough from Anglocentric travel narratives about Ireland. So too would have been his sense of the general depopulation of the countryside.
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Michael Palin's Guides to Everything
He has his own Site. Seems to include complete text of many books and some Quick Time videos, maps, etc. Cool!
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Chesterton
A list of what's available via Gutenberg. There's even more in Australia Gutenberg.
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Fr. James V. Schall online
Another Sort of Learning. Includes links to a wide variety of essays and studies by this erudite commentator on literature, society, and learning.
Subjects include: Belloc, Chesterton, Sense and Nonsense, Augustinian Political Philosophy, Teaching and Learning, Christian Political Philosophy, Thomas Aquinas--each subject having a plethora of resources associated with it. Truly a treasure trove.
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Here's Another--The Doré Bible Illustrations
They can be found here. It's nice that Gutenberg is doing something other than plain vanilla .txt files.
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May 25, 2005
Two Medieval English Dictionary Sources
The Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse, which includes the world-famous Ayenbite of inwit.
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March 28, 2005
The Art of Singing
by Luisa Tetrazzini and Enrico Caruso--the former having a most formidable bosum, and undoubtedly capable of prolonged, protracted, perhaps even painful musical exhalations.
Find it here
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March 24, 2005
Selected Works of Edmund Burke
Trying to find the exact formulation of the quotation from the previous post, I did find this rather nice on-line compendium of Burke's writing. It includes Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent, Reflections on the Revolution in France and Letters on a Regicide Peace.
Here's another listing, for those interested, including a wider variety of works.
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March 18, 2005
Who Knew. . .
that John Dryden, one of the greatest of the crop of late 17th century writers actually composed a Life of St. Francis Xavier and, it is reputed in the intro a life of St. Ignatius. Haven't read 'em so I don't have any idea how "fair" they might be, but it came as news to me.
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Sermons of St. Anthony of Padua
Via Summa Minutiae. Find them here.
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March 14, 2005
Discovered While Fact-Checking/Researching Waugh
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March 03, 2005
For Those Interested in St. Edmund Campion
Ten Reasons in Latin and English.
Campion's "Brag" or Challenge to the Privy Council
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February 26, 2005
The Blessing of Great Works
Guide for the Perplexed --Moses Maimonides (aka Rambam)--one of the great scholars and writers of his, or any time.
Excerpt of above:
My primary object in this work is to explain certain words occurring in the prophetic books. Of these some are homonyms, and of their several meanings the ignorant choose the wrong ones; other terms which are employed in a figurative sense are erroneously taken by such persons in their primary signification. There are also hybrid terms, denoting things which are of the same class from one point of view and of a different class from another. It is not here intended to explain all these expressions to the unlettered or to mere tyros, a previous knowledge of Logic and Natural Philosophy being indispensable, or to those who confine their attention to the study of our holy Law, I mean the study of the canonical law alone; for the true knowledge of the Torah is the special aim of this and similar works.
[And another from "On the Three Types of Evils"]MEN frequently think that the evils in the world are more numerous than the good things; many sayings and songs of the nations dwell on this idea. They say that a good thing is found only exceptionally, whilst evil things are numerous and lasting. Not only common people make this mistake, but even many who believe that they are wise. Al-Razi wrote a well-known book On Metaphysics [or Theology]. Among other mad and foolish things, it contains also the idea, discovered by him, that there exists more evil than good. For if the happiness of man and his pleasure in the times of prosperity be compared with the mishaps that befall him, such as grief, acute pain, defects, paralysis of the limbs, fears, anxieties, and troubles, it would seem as if the existence of man is a punishment and a great evil for him. This author commenced to verify his opinion by counting all the evils one by one; by this means he opposed those who hold the correct view of the benefits bestowed by God and His evident kindness, viz., that God is perfect goodness, and that all that comes from Him is absolutely good. The origin of the error is to be found in the circumstance that this ignorant man, and his party among the common people, judge the whole universe by examining one single person. For an ignorant man believes that the whole universe only exists for him; as if nothing else required any consideration. If, therefore, anything happens to him contrary to his expectation, he at once concludes that the whole universe is evil. If, however, he would take into consideration the whole universe, form an idea of it, and comprehend what a small portion he is of the Universe, he will find the truth. For it is clear that persons who have fallen into this widespread error as regards the multitude of evils in the world, do not find the evils among the angels, the spheres and stars, the elements, and that which is formed of them, viz., minerals and plants, or in the various species of living beings, but only in some individual instances of mankind. They wonder that a person, who became leprous in consequence of bad food, should be afflicted with so great an illness and suffer such a isfortune; or that he who indulges so much in sensuality as to weaken his sight, should be struck With blindness! and the like.
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite aka St. Denis (in some Medieval Works).
from "The Treatise on the Names of God"
Concerning this then, as has been said, the superessential and hidden Deity, it is not permitted to speak or even to think beyond the things divinely revealed to us in the sacred Oracles. For even as Itself has taught (as becomes Its goodness) in the Oracles, the science and contemplation of Itself in Its essential Nature is beyond the reach of all created things, as towering superessentially above all. And you will find many of the Theologians, who have celebrated It, not only as invisible and incomprehensible, but also as inscrutable and untraceable, since there is no trace of those who have penetrated to Its hidden infinitude. The Good indeed is not entirely uncommunicated to any single created being, but benignly sheds forth its superessential ray, persistently fixed in Itself, by illuminations analogous to each several being, and elevates to Its permitted contemplation and communion and likeness, those holy minds, who, as far as is lawful and reverent, strive after It, and who are neither impotently boastful towards that which is higher than the harmoniously imparted Divine manifestation, nor, in regard to a lower level, lapse downward through their inclining to the worse, but who elevate themselves determinately and unwaveringly to the ray shining upon them; and, by their proportioned love 4of permitted illuminations, are elevated with a holy reverence, prudently and piously, as on new wings.
from "The Letters of Dionysius
The Divine gloom is the unapproachable light in which God is said to dwell66. And in this gloom, invisible67 indeed, on account of the surpassing brightness, and unapproachable on account of the excess of the superessential stream of light, enters every one deemed worthy to know and to see God, by the very fact of neither seeing nor knowing, really entering in Him, Who is above vision and knowledge, knowing this very thing, that He is after all the object of sensible and intelligent perception, and saying in the words of the Prophet, Thy knowledge was regarded as wonderful by me; It was confirmed; I can by no means attain unto it68; even as the Divine Paul is said to have known Almighty God, by having known Him as being above all conception and knowledge. Wherefore also, he says, His ways are past finding out69 and His Judgements inscrutable, and His gifts indescribable70, and that His peace surpasses every mind71, as having found Him Who is above all, and having known this which is above conception, that, by being Cause of all, He is beyond all.
Keep in mind that these may be the works of the "Pseudo-Dionysius" no less respectable despite the questionable name.
Of God and His Creatures St. Thomas AquinasThe Catena Aurea for the Gospel of Mark
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February 08, 2005
"And Now for Something Completely Different. . ."
For those feeling a bit peckish but nevertheless not wishing to curtail their walpoling activities, Hugh Walpole's The Cathedral. May be the wrong Walpole, but read it with a nice bit of stilton or some brie (even very runny brie) and you won't notice the difference.
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January 04, 2005
On-Line Catholic Bible Commentary
TSO noted that this Catholic Commenatry on the Bible was available online. I don't know what Questia is, but if it is open to all, this is a wonderful resource.
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December 27, 2004
Appropriate for the Season
As we approach Epiphany and the brilliant end of the Christmas Season (actually with Baptism of the Lord), we have The Story of the Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke.
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December 16, 2004
Code of Canon Law
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November 29, 2004
E-Chesterton
Books from Gutenberg--Chesterton--scroll to November 29
* The Crimes of England
* The Barbarism of Berlin
* The Appetite of Tyranny, Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
* The Wild Knight, and Other Poems
* The Defendant (second edition, 1902)
* Twelve Types
* Robert Browning
* The New Jerusalem
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November 08, 2004
Literary Taste: How to Form It
A magnificent e-text from the author of one of the 100 best books of the twentieth century. This excerpt:
from Literary Taste: How to Form It
Arnold BennettChapter IX Verse
There is a word, a name of fear, which rouses terror in the heart of the vast educated majority of the English-speaking race. The most valiant will fly at the mere utterance of that word. The most broad-minded will put their backs up against it. The most rash will not dare to affront it. I myself have seen it empty buildings that had been full; and I know that it will scatter a crowd more quickly than a hose-pipe, hornets, or the rumour of plague. Even to murmur it is to incur solitude, probably disdain, and possibly starvation, as historical examples show. That word is poetry.. . .
The formation of literary taste cannot be completed until that prejudice has been conquered. My very difficult task is to suggest a method of conquering it. I address myself exclusively to the large class of people who, if they are honest, will declare that, while they enjoy novels, essays, and history, they cannot stand verse. The case is extremely delicate, like all nervous cases. It is useless to employ the arts of reasoning, for the matter has got beyond logic; it is instinctive. Perfectly futile to assure you that verse will yield a higher percentage of pleasure than prose! You will reply: We believe you, but that doesn't help us. Therefore I shall not argue. I shall venture to prescribe a curative treatment (doctors do not argue); and I beg you to follow it exactly, keeping your nerve and your calm. Loss of self-control might lead to panic, and panic would be fatal.
So, for those of you who suffer metrophobia run, don't walk to this text and find out what Bennett's advice might be. The life you change could be your own!
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October 20, 2004
E-books
In Praise of the New Knighthood St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Poems Jonathan Swift
The Primitive Rule of the Templars
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
Youth and the Bright Medusa--Willa Cather
The Tatler, Vol I Addison and Steele
The Complete Studies in the Psychology of Sex--Havelock Ellis--the beginning of the slippery slope in the twentieth Century. Unfortunately more influential that Freud.
The Nonsence Verse of Edward Lear
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October 11, 2004
Elizabethan Authors
Featuring a far-too-annotated Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy along with some unfortunately modernized John Lyly--why can't people leave things alone. Yes, they're tough to read in the original, but it give the brain a little work to do and you have a sense of the author you don't get when people go fiddling with the texts. Well, for better or worse:
If 'tis done when 'twere done
'tis best 'twere done quickly.Enjoy
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October 07, 2004
E-books Worthy of Your Attention--John Ruskin
Val d'Arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art Directly Antecedent to the Florentine Year of Victories -- John Ruskin--Prince of the Victorian Critics, if something of an aesthete.
Also Queen of the Air
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October 06, 2004
Jansenism
From a correspondent--an extremely interesting site with everything you always wanted to know about Jansenism but were afraid to ask. Note the inclusion of a PDF of Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange's Grace, being a Thomistic explanation of the doctrine of Grace &c.
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September 25, 2004
From Project Canterbury
The Worthy Communicant;
Or, a Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings consequent to the Worthy Receiving of the Lord's Supper, And of all the Duties required in Order to a Worthy Preparation: Together with the Cases of Conscience occurring in the Duty of Him that Ministers, and of Him that Communicates; As also Devotions Fitted to Every Part of the Ministration.
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September 11, 2004
Incredibly Cool!
Comparing the texts - Shakespeare in quarto
Yes, you can see some of the orginal Quarto editions of Shakespeare's work! Wonderful! Magnificent! Exciting! Even for people who are not Shakespearian Scholars. This is one of the reasons I love the web!
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September 09, 2004
E-Books-Chesterton and Belloc
Robert Browning--G.K. Chesterton
The Vanity of Human Wishes and Rambler Papers--Samuel JohnsonHills and the Sea--Hillaire Belloc
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August 22, 2004
An Orthodox Psalter
POMOG - Daily Psalter Readings
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More Than You Ever Dreamed You Wanted To Know (or Didn't) about North Carolina
North Carolina History and Fiction Digital Library
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August 19, 2004
E. F. Benson
Crescent and Iron Cross--an unusual work by Benson, neither Lucia nor the splendid Ghost Stories (including "Room for One More" and "The Room in the Tower"). I've not read it--but for afficianados of this brother of the illustrious R.H. Benson--a Chesterton-age convert who became a priest.
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August 17, 2004
A Travelogue by S. Baring-Gould
In Troubadour-Land S. Baring-Gould
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For the Mathematically Inclined
Chebyshev and Fourier Spectrum Models
Problem Course in Mathematical Logic
A Plethora of Books from the AMS (I'm assuming that is the American Mathematical Society.)
Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory
Jacobi Operators and Completely Integrable Nonlinear Lattices
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Poetry in Translation
Poetry In Translation - A.S. Kline's Free Archive--provides translations of Catullus (not for the easily offended), Ovid (ditto), as well as prominent modern or recent European poets--Goethe, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, etc. (Includes a complete Dunio Elegies, a complete Divine Comedy with notes, a complete Canti of Leopardi, a complete Canzoniere of Petrarch, and a complete Faust with notes.
Very nice.
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August 07, 2004
Biographical Dictionary of the U.S. Congress
from the beginning to now--here. Found searching for George Wythe.
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August 05, 2004
St Bernard of Clairvaux
Following on today's office of readings, I was stunned to find this magnificent treasure trove on-line. St. Bernard of Clarivaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs--Volumes I and II.
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August 03, 2004
Early Christian Writers
From an interesting site, and interesting book by George Jackson--a summary of the writings of the Early Church fathers, The Greek Post-Nicene Fathers. There's a nice description of the Church Father and of the nature of his writings.
An interesting e-Catena which includes excerpts from the Apocrypha of the New Testament including the exceedingly weird Protevangelium of James.
Look around the site, there is much of great interest and much that will confound, confuse, and add fuel to The DaVinci Code flame. We've had them with us from the very beginning. I suppose we should be thankful for Dominicans and Jesuits.
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July 31, 2004
For Hillaire Belloc Fans and others
I don't know if this is a fragment, a pamphlet, a reprint of an extended essay, but here it is: The Historic Thames
Thomas Chatterron's faked 15th century poems The Rowley Poems
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July 29, 2004
Mystical Theology
Dionysius the Areopagite: On the Divine Names and the Mystical Theology
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Site for Works of Marvin Olasky
Marvin Olasky's Books and Articles
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Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The Two Lovers of Heaven: Chrysanthus and Daria
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July 26, 2004
From the Site I Posted Yesterday
Were you all aware of the availability of these e-books? If so, shame on you for not telling me.
This collection includes:
The Golden Legend Jacobus de Voraigne
Steedman on the Saints
Documents of the Council of Trent
Writings of St. Catherine of Genoa
For Greater Things: The Story of St. Stanislaw Kostka
Memoir of Father Vincent de Pauletc.
Go and see, wonderful resources!
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July 25, 2004
St Joseph Software Home Page
A correspondent sent me this wonderful link. I'll be adding it to my side-column later.
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