Travels in Arabia - Travels in Arabia by John Lewis Burckhardt
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SOME years have now elapsed since two distinct portions of Burckhardt's works (his Travels in Nubia and Syria) were offered to the public, and most favourably received; their success being insured not only by instrinsic merit, but by the celebrity of their editor as a scholar and antiquary, a traveller and a geographer. It must not however be inferred, from any delay in publishing the present volume, that its contents are less worthy of notice than those parts which have already proved so interesting and instructive to a multitude of readers. It was always intended that this Journal, and other writings of the same lamented author, should issue successively from the press: "There still remain," says Colonel Leake, in his Preface to the Syrian Journal (p.ii.) "manuscripts sufficient to fill two volumes: one of these will consist of his Travels in Arabia, which were confined to the Hedjaz or Holy Land of the Muselmans, the part least accessible to Christians; the fourth volume will contain very copious remarks on the Arabs of the
Desert, and particularly the Wahabys."
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The Covenants And The Covenanters The Covenants And The Covenanters -
The Covenants, Sermons, and Papers in this volume carry the readers back to some of the brightest periods of Scottish history
Illustrated History of Furniture Illustrated History of Furniture
by Frederick Litchfield
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In the following pages the Author has placed before the reader an account of the changes in the design of Decorative Furniture and Woodwork, from the earliest period of which we have any reliable or certain record until the present time
How to become like Christ How to become like Christ - How to become like Christ by Marcus Dods
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"But we all, with unveiled face reflecting as a mirror the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord
The Wonders of Prayer The Wonders of Prayer - The incidents which are published in this volume, are vouched for upon the strongest proofs of authenticity possible to obtain, and are either of circumstances known amid my own experience, or connected with the lives of my correspondents and their friends. They are the thankful record and tribute to the power of persevering faith
The Confessions of St. Augustine The Confessions of St. Augustine - The Confessions of St. Augustine by Bishop of Hippo Augustine, Saint
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Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and Thy wisdom infinite
A Christmas Carol A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
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Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to
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Manners, Custom and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period
by Paul Lacroix
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he several successive editions of "The Arts of the Middle Ages and Period of the Renaissance" sufficiently testify to its appreciation by the public