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The Lausiac History

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Palladius


The Lausiac History (Historia Lausiaca) is a seminal work archiving the Desert Fathers (early Christian monks who lived in the Egyptian dese…

Guardians

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A. S. Frye


Guardians is set in the near future and follows the life of a young girl, Kathy, who suffers a head injury which gives her some amazing psyc…

Le Paradis Perdu

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John Milton


Comme Virgile a développé l’épopée à célébrer l’origine de sa propre patrie, Milton l’a ada…

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 2

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St. Cyril of Alexandria and Cyril Of Alexandria


Book 2 of Commentary on St John's Gospel covers John 1:29 - 5:34. (Summary by the reader)

Funeral Oration on Meletius

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St. Gregory of Nyssa


Saint Meletius was Patriarch of Antioch from 360 until his death in 381. One of his last acts was to preside over the First Council of Const…

Scholia on the Incarnation of the Only-Begotten

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St. Cyril of Alexandria and Cyril Of Alexandria


Thirty-seven short articles discussing "What is Christ?" ( The Reader)

Areopagitica (Version 2)

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John Milton


The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…

The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

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Alexander Dunlop Lindsay


Born in Scotland, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay was a teacher of philosophy at a number of universities in England in the early 1900s. This brief…

Balder Dead (version 2)

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Matthew Arnold


The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. L…

The Dragon of Wantley

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Owen Wister


The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, a…

The History of Britain

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John Milton


A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…

Jerusalem Delivered

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Torquato Tasso


The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stori…

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 3

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St. Cyril of Alexandria and Cyril Of Alexandria


Book 3 of Commentary on St John's Gospel covers John 5:35- 6:37, as well as a look at the prophecy contained in Deut. 18:15-19. (Summary by …

The Man in the Moone

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Francis Godwin


A self-serving Spaniard discovers a means of traveling to the moon, describing his sensations in transit in terms remarkably consistent with…

Funeral Orations

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Gregory Of Nazianzus


Gregory the Theologian, also known as Gregory Nazianzen (which name also refers to his father,) was a 4th-century Archbishop of Constantinop…

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


This final volume of detective stories was Doyle’s effort to put his most famous creation behind him at long last. It includes a variety of …

Absalom and Achitophel

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John Dryden


John Dryden published Absalom and Achitophel: A Poem in 1681. It is an elaborate historical allegory using the political situation faced by …

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 4

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St. Cyril of Alexandria and Cyril Of Alexandria


Book 4 of Commentary on St John's Gospel covers John 6:38 - 7:24.

Monsieur Beaucaire

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Booth Tarkington


A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. S…

Theologia Germanica

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Anonymoustranslated Bysusanna Winkworth and William James Mcglothlin


This short, anonymous work is thought to have been written in the 1300s by a member of the lay-religious group called ‘The Friends of God.’ …

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