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The volume includes a selection of intriguing documents, many of which date back to the 16th and 17th centuries when beliefs in witchcraft and supernatural abilities were widespread. These tracts of……続きを見る

A Collection of Rare and Curious Tracts on Witchcraft and the Second Sight - Unknown - Excerpt: If we wish to form a just estimate of the human character in its progress through the various stages o……続きを見る

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Unknown - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an Arthurian story, dated from the late 14th century. It's a chivalric romance, a genre that was hugely popular in the ……続きを見る

One cannot work continuously at a subject, and all the while get the thoughtful criticism of his observers, without improving his methods. From a review of a recent volume by the writer, the followi……続きを見る

An unknown author describes his experiences in Palestine during WW I 続きを見る

Originally written in Icelandic, sometime in the 13th Century As is the case with many of the Icelandic sagas, the author of The Story of Burnt Njal is unknown. It is thought to have been written in……続きを見る

First published in 1920 by an anonymous author, probably White Russian emigré to the US, Boris Brasol, The Protocols and World Revolution begins with a translation of the "Protocols of Meetings of t……続きを見る

Beowulf is often referred to as the first important work of literature in English, even though it was written in Old English, an ancient form of the language that slowly evolved into the English now……続きを見る

Within this small book you will find six distinctive folk tales from the ancient land of Egypt translated and edited by that giant of Egyptology – W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853 – 1942). Petrie was a p……続きを見る

Il libro contiene tre rapporti della commissione del Senato americano sulle vittime dei crimini dei regimi comunisti, rispettivamente in Unione Sovietica, in Cina e nel Vietnam comunista, pubblicati……続きを見る

தந்தை பெரியார் திராவிடர் கழகத்தின் தலைவர். ஈழத்திற்குத் தனித்துப் பயணப்பட்ட போதும், ராஜ்குமாரை வீரப்பனிடமிருந்து மீட்டு வந்த சந்தர்ப்பத்திலும் தமிழக ஊடகங்களில் பெரிதும் பேசப்பட்டவர். சமீபத்தில் சங்க……続きを見る

1925 ஆம் ஆண்டில் தொடங்கப்பட்டு 1949 நவம்பர் முடிய வெளிவந்த ‘குடி அரசு’ வார ஏடு தமிழக வரலாற்றுப் போக்கையும் அதனோடு தொடர்புள்ள இந்திய வரலாற்றுப் போக்கையும் சமூகப்புரட்சிப் பார்வையில்புரிந்துகொள்ளவும்;……続きを見る

எந்தத் தலைவனும், எந்தத் தத்துவமும் விமர்சனத்துக்கு அப்பாற்பட்தல்ல என்பது சரியே. பெரியாரியலும் இதற்கு விதிவிலக்கல்ல என்பதும் சரியே! விமர்சனங்கள் தான் ஒரு தத்துவத்தையோ, தலைவனையோ, இயக்கத்தையோ, அமைப்பைய……続きを見る

THE Hebrew writings after the fifth century of our present era include no such transcendently important religious works as the Bible and the Talmud. Yet the Hebraic race had lost neither their wonde……続きを見る

THE great things in this world are growths. This applies to books as well as to institutions. The Bible is a growth. Many people do not understand that it is not a book written by a single person, b……続きを見る

THE Vishnu-smriti or Vaishnava Dharmasâstra or Vishnu-sûtra is in the main a collection of ancient aphorisms on the sacred laws of India, and as such it ranks with the other ancient works of this cl……続きを見る

The Tanakh (Hebrew: תַּנַ"ךְ, pronounced [taˈnaχ] or [təˈnax]; also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach) is a name used in Judaism for the canon of the Hebrew Bible. The Tanakh is also known as the Masoretic Text……続きを見る

In this work is brought together for the first time the interpretation of the best authorities respecting the evidences, historical, archaeologic, inscriptive and deductive, of Norse discovery, occu……続きを見る

THE Dhammapada forms part of the Pâli Buddhist canon, though its exact place varies according to different authorities, and we have not as yet a sufficient number of complete MSS. of the Tipitaka to……続きを見る

Among the ceremonials which nurtured the Jewish idealism of generations, a place of peculiar charm is held by the Seder, celebrated on the Passover Eve, and repeated on the following night by those ……続きを見る

WE do not feel able to take in hand the wide subject of the Sagas of Iceland within the limits of a Preface; therefore we have only to say that we put forward this volume as the translation of an ol……続きを見る

Thus have I heard. Once upon a time the Lord was staying at Râgagriha, on the Gridhrakuta mountain, with a numerous assemblage of monks, twelve hundred monks, all of them Arhats, stainless, free fro……続きを見る

In accordance with the general object of this series of volumes--which is to furnish materials for study rather than to offer completed studies--I have prepared for this number the text of the most ……続きを見る

I MAY be permitted to express my satisfaction that, with the two volumes of the Lî Kî now published, I have done, so far as translation is concerned, all and more than all which I undertook to do on……続きを見る

SODOM. And then not cleans'd till they beginn to stink May well be styl'd, Love's nasty common sink; When e're your fancy is to fuck inclin'd, If they are sound or not, perhaps you'll find Some of t……続きを見る

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical f……続きを見る

I did not write down the Lectures of Epictetus in the form of a book, as one might do with such utterances as his, nor did I of my own will give them to the public, for, as I say, I did not write th……続きを見る

Formed in August 1917, The 91st Aero Squadron was a United States Army Air Service unit that fought on the Western Front during World War I. The 91st was one of the first five American flying squadr……続きを見る

W. FOERSTER. (Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie, 1877) Das launige Gedicht steht auf Blatt 219aー222c der catalanischen Handschrift 377 der Bibliothek zu Carpentras, derselben, aus welcher A. Mu……続きを見る

Te ígitur, clementíssime Pater, per Jesum Christum Fílium tuum Dóminum nostrum súpplices rogámus ac pétimus (osculaturaltare) uti accépta hábeas, et benedícas (jungitmanus, deinde signat ter super o……続きを見る