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Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at CambridgeRashdall, Hastings, 1858-1924enMind and matter -- The universal cause -- God and the moral consciousness -- Difficulties and objections -- Revelation -- Christianity.Philosophy and religion; Christianity2007-07-04
The Unseen World and Other EssaysFiske, John, 1842-1901enThe unseen world -- "The tomorrow of death" -- The Jesus of history -- The Christ of dogma -- A word about miracles -- Draper on science and religion -- Nathan the Wise -- Historical difficulties -- The famine of 1770 in Bengal -- Spain and the Netherlands -- Longfellow's Dante -- Paine's "St. Peter" -- A philosophy of art -- Athenian and American life1998-10-01
Men of Invention and IndustrySmiles, Samuel, 1812-1904enPhineas Pett : beginnings of English shipbuilding -- Francis Pettit Smith, practical introducer of the screw propeller -- John Harrison, inventor of the marine chronometer -- John Lombe, introducer of the silk industry into England -- William Murdock, his life and inventions -- Frederick Koenig, inventor of the steam-printing machine -- The Walters of the "Times" : invention of the Walter press -- William Clowes : book-printing by steam -- Charles Bianconi : a lesson of self-help in Ireland -- Industry in Ireland : through Connaught and Ulster to Belfast -- Ship-building in Belfast / by E.J. Harland, engineer and shipbuilder -- Astronomers and students in humble life : a new chapter in the "Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties".Inventors -- Biography; Industrial arts -- Biography1996-11-01
Children of the TenementsRiis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914enThe rent baby -- A story of Bleecker Street -- The kid hangs up his stocking -- The slipper-maker's fast -- Death comes to Cat Alley -- A proposal on the elevated -- Little Will's message -- Lost children -- Paolo's awakening -- The little dollar's Christmas journey -- The kid -- When the letter came -- The cat took the kosher meat -- Nibsy's Christmas -- In the children's hospital -- Nigger Martha's wake -- What the Christmas sun saw in the tenements -- Midwinter in New York -- A chip from the maelstrom -- Sarah Joyce's husbands -- Merry Christmas in the tenements -- Abe's game of jacks -- A little picture -- A dream of the woods -- 'Twas 'Liza's doings -- Heroes who fight fire -- John Gavin, misfit -- A heathen baby -- The christening in Bottle Alley -- In the Mulberry Street court -- Difficulties of a deacon -- Fire in the barracks -- War on the goats -- He kept his tryst -- Rover's last fight -- How Jim went to the war -- A backwoods hero -- Jack's sermon -- Skippy of Scrabble Alley -- Making a way out of the slum.Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark), 1863-1932 [Illustrator]Short stories, American; Tenement houses -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction2007-05-23




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