Percival: 135 books

The manifestations of which this book treats were witnessed by the writer in 1891 and 1893. Since then the miracles, he learns, have become one of the sights that visitors are taken to see, and on the fifteenth of April and of September the grounds of his friend the high priest at Kanda show many a tourist from the other side of the world amid the devout crowd about the sacred bed of coals.

After spending half a century focused on Greek and Latin scholarship, the author shares his experiences and opinions on such translation subjects as fidelity, misrepresentation, translations posing as originals, sham originals, “libertine” translations, translation of verse and prose, and many more. Includes examples from Horace, Plato, Martial, Milton, and Shakespeare.

The foundations of Masonic symbolism are universal, eternal, timeless. The Order has existed under one name or another long before the building of the first pyramid. It predates any religion known today! This makes Masonry the oldest entity of its kind to prepare candidates for an inward life. Within...

Are you struggling with the complexities of assessment? Demystifying the process of assessment for learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS), this book explains in straightforward language how to put principles into practice. Looking at models of assessment, the book draws heavily...

It is a great truism of golf that the game cannot be learnt from a book. Yet it is equally true that there are some things every golfer must know before setting foot on the course, lest he risk making an utter ass of himself. These are things your local golf pro can’t or won’t tell you: the unwritten...

In biotechnology and bioengineering, small molecules can be used to increase the efficiency reduce the cost and damage to the environment of certain bioprocesses. This book introduces readers to the important field of chemically promoted biotechnology and bioengineering and presents the theory behind...

The subject of this book is the physics of vortices. A detailed analysis of the dynamics of vortices will be presented. The important topics of vorticity and molecular spin will be dealt with, including the electromagnetic analogy and quantization in superfluids. The effect of molecular spin on the...

Beau Sabreur is a novel by P.C. Wren. It was the first sequel to Beau Geste and was turned into a novel. It focuses on the adventures of Major De Beaujolais, an officer in the French Foreign legion.

A few weeks after applying at the proper military headquarters, I received orders to appear before the Conseil de Revision with my papers, at the Town Hall of my native district; and, with a hundred or so other young men of every social class and kind, was duly examined, physically and mentally. Soon...

In his mind the traveler holds of Illinois a tiresome picture, the kitchen garden of a great people, a flat and unromantic necessity. The greatest of men have trod the level ground, but it is hard to mark history upon a plane; there is no rugged place on which to hang a wreath, and on the prairie the...

Few adults remember adolescence and the insolence of a child when no options appear in their favor. Frenzy barely describes the tantamount ire compressed and bottled when that personality lets nothing stand in their way. Kang found himself at that point. His homeland suffered such a change as it sublimed...

AFTER the miracles, or possessions of things, follow, in order of esoteric ascension, the incarnations, or possessions of people. The miracles, as I have hinted, are performed largely with an eye, at least one eye, to the public. To drench one's self with scalding water or to saunter unconcernedly...