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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1870Subjects: History / GeneralNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free.Excerpt: CHAPTER X.THE PARSON-BUILDER, AND THE BUILDER-PARSON. " The heart of the righteous studieth to answer." -- Solomon-.John Wimbleton, or, as he was now more generally called Mr. Wimbleton, began to he looked up to in the town of Whatley. He was doing a good stroke of business, succeeded often in extending it where least expected, and was rapidly placing his prosperity and the fortunes of his house on a solid basis.John's " treasure," however, was " in heaven." All earthly things held but a subordinate place in his estimation, and, making no secret of his profession, his conduct had an exceedingly beneficial effect. Several of his former associates were reclaimed from the error of their ways, chiefly through the influence of the living example he presented of the wonders of grace.Old Samuel came to him one day with a pitiful case." There is Filbert, yonder, alone in the house and in rags, without a decent bit of furniture left, and hardly a plate or knife or spoon and nothing to eat. After being clammed and ill-used by him, his wife has left him. I have been talking to him seriously, and being sober, though frightfully disfigured by his alehouse broils, he has listened as if what I said was quite new to his ears. I never saw him so cut up before : he wept like a child, and said he had deserved it all, -- and more. I told him I would speak to you for him. He looked up with a glance of surprise, but muttered, half to himself, ' Ah! but there's no salvation for me, I have ruined both myself andmy wife.' Now can you help the poor wretch, Mr. John?"" Filbert has worn o... ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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Damien Hirst's Alone Yet Together, a pseudoscientific installation of fish suspended in formaldehyde in small, identical glass boxes, graces the cover of this volume. As the singular image selected to represent the Pisces Collection, it demands some exploration of wordplay. Pisces is, after all, the zoological term for fish and also the name of a zodiac sign--the astrological sign, as it happens, of the collection's anonymous owner. Devoted to contemporary art from the 1980s onward, the Pisces Collection takes not an encyclopedic approach but a focused one, concentrating on representing the work of a relatively small group of artists in depth. For the first time, 150 pieces from this very valuable collection are presented to the international public, featuring work by John M. Armleder, Ross Bleckner, George Condo, Wim Delvoye, Fischli & Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Mariko Mori, Jack Pierson, Richard Prince, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Ruff, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West, and Christopher Wool. Highlights from the 80s include Prince's My Name and Koons's Encased Five Rows; the 90s are represented through photographic works by Sherman and Gursky, alongside Struths's Paradise 2 (Pilgrim Sands). Hirst's Something solid beneath the surface of several creatures great and small, with its use of live and dead animals, is one of the collection's more controversial pieces.Artists Include: Andreas Gursky, Paul McCarthy, Jeff Koons, Margrit Brehm, Franz West, , Rosemarie Trockel, John M. Armleder, Ross Bleckner, George Condo, Wim Delvoye, Fischli / Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Damien Hirst, Thomas Struth, Mariko Mori, Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince amongst others.

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER II.What nations first cultivated music after the flood—Egypt the nursery of the arts—the lyre invented by Mercury—Noah and his family settle in the plains of Shinar—Chinese claim the merit of inventing instrumental music—building the tower of Babel—its consequences—Chinese description of their music— Syrian, Chaldean, and Indian music—Laban and Jacob referred to—Europe and America but slightly known to the Egyptians, Sfc.—Grecian accounts of their music—their numerous songs— Homer's references to vocal music.All quarters of the world, and most nations have their vocal and instrumental music; and in some of which it has long been brought to a high state of perfection ; while in others, even in this advanced age of the world, it is scarcely deserving the name of a system.Much difference of opinion exists among those writers who have devoted most time, and who have brought the most suitable qualifications to the investigation of the subject, as to which nation, after the flood, first invented instruments of music, and most successfully cultivated the art. It must not be forgotten that all account of transactions at the period of which we are now speaking, are manifestly traditional, and, of course, can have but little claim upon our confidence in their truth. They are interwoven and mixed up with a dark,deep, and widely extended system of mythology. Nearly all their discoveries, either in useful or destructive arts, have been attributed to their gods and goddesses,—persons who, we may suppose, rendered themselves famous either by accident or merit, and so were deified by the ignorance and superstition of the times. Many of these relations are far too ridiculous to be repeated ; but a few of the more probable amongst them may be given, partly to gratify the more cu... ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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Chapters: John Curwen, Thomas Archer Hirst, James Berry, Jeff Butterfield, Dave Pybus, Arthur Wood, Mike Heaton, Horace Brearley, Frederic Arthur Kelley, Frederick Ward. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Reverend John Curwen (18161880) was an English Congregationalist minister, and founder of the Tonic sol-fa system of music education. He was educated at Wymondley College (subsequently Coward College) and University College London. John Curwen was a descendent of the Curwens of Workington Hall in Cumbria, one of the oldest families in England, the male line proper being a direct descent from Eldred, a pre-Norman Englishman, whose son Ketel held lands in the Barony of Kendal. Orm, Ketel's son, inherited the Cumbrian manor of Workington. John Curwen was born November 14, 1816 at Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, the son of Spedding Curwen and Mary Jubb. His father was a Non-conformist minister, as John was also from 1838 until 1864. Curwen gave up full time ministry in order to devote himself to his new method of musical nomenclature. Curwen's system was designed to aid in sight reading of the stave with its lines and spaces. He adapted it from a number of earlier musical systems, including the Norwich Sol-fa method of Sarah Ann Glover (17851867) of Norwich. Her Sol-fa system was based on the ancient gamut; but she omitted the constant recital of the alphabetical names of each note and the arbitrary syllable indicating key relationship, and also the recital of two or more such syllables when the same note was common to as many keys (e.g. C, Fa, Ut, meaning that C is the subdominant of G and the tonic of C). The notes were represented by the initials of the seven syllables, still in use in Italy and France as their names. Curwen taught himself to sight-...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=487063 ... Read more

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This collection examines the plethora of ways in which Hindu role models have been used in the past and continue to be used to shape, challenge, reject and transform social and political norms, ways which affect people s everyday lives in a variety of domestic and public contexts and so are playing for real. The essays show that, in the age of TV epics and multi-media technology, religious role models retain considerable significance. They also demonstrate exceptionally clearly how such role models have been variously constructed to suit or challenge different dominant ideologies in a variety of eras and social settings. ... Read more