The Sibylline Oracles (v. 1.0)
Apps Publisher опубликовал приложение 2010-06-19
The texts which are presented here are forgeries, probably composed between the 2nd to 6th century C.E. They purport to predict events which were already history or mythological history at the time of composition, as well as vague all-purpose predictions, especially woe for various cities & countries such as Rome & Assyria. |
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Icelandic Sagas Vol III The (v. 1.0)
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The Orkneys lie like Cyclades round Hrossey or the Mainland, and are tolerably equal in size & shape, Shetland may be said to be altogether overpowered by its Mainland, which is larger than all the other islands put together, only two or three of which are of any importance. |
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Selestors Men Of Atlantis (v. 1.0)
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Selestor recounts the history of Atlantis, from its rise to its destruction, thousands of years ago. The author does not use the usual framing story as many of these books do. Instead she dives right in, with the implication that she sees what has been written here as the literal truth. |
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The Corpus Hermeticum (v. 1.0)
Apps Publisher опубликовал приложение 2010-06-19
Corpus Hermeticum |
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Translation Of The French (v. 1.0)
Apps Publisher опубликовал приложение 2010-06-19
Our master, one night, saw the &Imam &Hasan; upon him may the blessing of God rest! His Holiness put in his mouth his blessed tongue. From the adorable saliva of His Holiness he drew forth the sciences and the assistance of God. To the taste it was sweeter even than honey, more perfumed than the musk. |
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The Secret History (v. 1.0)
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Procopius, who also wrote a mainstream military history and a toadying description of the monuments which Justinian built, had to keep his most acute writing for posthumous publication. This text flays Justinian and Theodora as corrupt, immoral, and just plain evil. |
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The Shu King Shih King And (v. 1.0)
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These are key texts of Confucianism, the traditional state religion of feudal China. These are some of the few Chinese texts which survived a disasterous book-burning in 213 B.C.E. by the Emperor Ch'in Shih Huang. |
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The Suppliants (v. 1.0)
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An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. |
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The Oera Linda Book (v. 1.0)
Apps Publisher опубликовал приложение 2010-06-19
All that was known was that a tradition contained in it had from generation to generation been recommended to careful preservation. It appeared that the tradition rests upon the contents of two letters, with which the manuscript begins, from Hiddo oera Linda, anno 1256, and from Liko oera Linda, anno 803. |
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The Promise Of World Peace (v. 1.0)
Apps Publisher опубликовал приложение 2010-06-19
The Promise Of World Peace. |
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