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Anne Catherine Emmerich - Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ
Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) was a German Augustinian nun who had visions about Christ's life and death. This book relates her visions regarding the Blessed Virgin Mary, from her marriage to St. Joseph to the...
1 hour 38 minutes
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469
Hannah Trager - Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago
Hannah Trager published Pictures of Jewish Home-Life Fifty Years Ago in 1926, so the book is a portrait of day to day life for a Jewish family in Jerusalem around 1876. In each chapter, Mr. Jacobs reads a letter from...
1 hour 36 minutes
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Henry Charles Lea - History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 2
Volume 2 of Lea’s monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. Volume 2 discusses the organizational structure of the Inquisition, methods used to financially support the Inquisition, methods used by the Inquisition to...
26 hours 1 minute
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Henry Brooks Adams - Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp...
17 hours 37 minutes
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Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach - Good Sense
In 1770, Baron D'Holbach published his masterpiece, «Systeme de la Nature», which for a long time passed as the posthumous work of M. de Mirabaud. That text-book of «Atheistical Philosophy» caused a great sensation,...
7 hours 29 minutes
