The Wonder-Worker of Padua - Scholar's Choice Edition
The Wonder-Worker of Padua - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: Charles Warren Stoddard

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-18

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9781298228505

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The Wonder-Worker of Padua
The Wonder-Worker of Padua

Author: Charles Warren Stoddard

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781230298290

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... a pilgrim in that hallowed land, but never twice a stranger. Alighting at the station, I wandered through the streets, suffering myself to be piloted--by my Good Angel it may have been--till I came to the inn with the sign of the Three White Crosses, and I abode there. The fifty thousand people of Padua left me to myself, and I went my way as if I were invisible to any. This shrine seems to be the least commercial of them all, and yet it is one of the most famous and the most popular. How soon one does Padua as a tourist: devouring it, as it were; bolting it as the hungry sight-seer bolts everything visible! Of course there is a memory and an indigestion after all is over, and the fagged tourist packs himself home and sits down to think. One does it in a day--so much of Padua as is in the guidebook. There is a memory of lovely churches and the tombs of saints, and old walls covered with very ancient frescoes and other works of art, --here Giotto was in his glory. And there is a memory of a host of college boys wandering to and fro with their arms upon one another's shoulders. A world-famous University, that has been nourishing half a thousand years, is located here. Somehow, one can not help thinking of Enrico and his Italian "SchoolBoy's Journal"--that most charming of the works of De Amicis-- when one falls in with these Paduan students, with their troubadour faces and airs and graces--albeit they are not half so interesting as little Enrico. Oh, the power, the beauty, the fervor and the pathos of that book--"Cuore," by Edmondo de Amicis! Read it if you have not read it; there you will see the heart of Young Italy laid bare. The great circular piazza of the city is wreathed with a double row of statues, commemorating in marble the...

St. Anthony
St. Anthony

Author: Charles Warren Stoddard

Publisher: TAN Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 089555982X

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Charles Warren Stoddard St. Anthony of Padua - lector, orator, contemplative, wonder-worker - is considered to be the most popular Saint in the Catholic Church. He was of French descent, from Portugal, but worked in Italy as a Franciscan priest. Renowned for his incredible miracles - including preaching to the fish when people would not listen to him - he is most famous as "The Patron Saint of Lost Objects," but he bears many other great titles, e.g., Doctor of the Church, Hammer of Heretics, Storehouse of Sacred Scripture, Father of Mystic Theology, Ark of Both Testaments, Champion of the Sacred Heart, Apostle of Mary's Assumption, Protector of Seafarers and Patron of a Bountiful Harvest. St. Bonaventure said of him that "He possessed the science of the Angels, the faith of the Patriarchs, the foreknowledge of the Prophets, the zeal of the Apostles, the purity of virgins, the austerities of confessors, and the heroism of martyrs." In all, one will search hard in the annals of the Saints to find a more fascinating and inspiring life than that of St. Anthony of Padua.

Candide
Candide

Author: Voltaire Voltaire

Publisher: Xist Publishing

Published: 2016-04-02

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1681959526

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Candide by Voltaire from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Do you believe,' said Candide, 'that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?' Do you believe,' said Martin, 'that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?” ― Voltaire, Candide Candide is a young man who is raised in wealth to be an optimist but when he is forced to make his own way in the world, his assumptions and outlook are challenged.

Command Of The Air
Command Of The Air

Author: General Giulio Douhet

Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing

Published: 2014-08-15

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 1782898522

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In the pantheon of air power spokesmen, Giulio Douhet holds center stage. His writings, more often cited than perhaps actually read, appear as excerpts and aphorisms in the writings of numerous other air power spokesmen, advocates-and critics. Though a highly controversial figure, the very controversy that surrounds him offers to us a testimonial of the value and depth of his work, and the need for airmen today to become familiar with his thought. The progressive development of air power to the point where, today, it is more correct to refer to aerospace power has not outdated the notions of Douhet in the slightest In fact, in many ways, the kinds of technological capabilities that we enjoy as a global air power provider attest to the breadth of his vision. Douhet, together with Hugh “Boom” Trenchard of Great Britain and William “Billy” Mitchell of the United States, is justly recognized as one of the three great spokesmen of the early air power era. This reprint is offered in the spirit of continuing the dialogue that Douhet himself so perceptively began with the first edition of this book, published in 1921. Readers may well find much that they disagree with in this book, but also much that is of enduring value. The vital necessity of Douhet’s central vision-that command of the air is all important in modern warfare-has been proven throughout the history of wars in this century, from the fighting over the Somme to the air war over Kuwait and Iraq.