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When God Is Born, No Power Prevails
Franciszek Karpiński
When God Is Born, No Power Prevails When God is born, no power prevails, Our Lord in nakedness enwound. All fire congeals, all luster pales, Contained is He that knows no bound. Despised, in glory comes untold, A mortal king for aye to reign. The Word of God in flesh behold, Now born to share our life mundane. What have ye Heavens o’er the earth, That God forsook His sweet delight, And wished to take a human birth, To share our every toil and plight? And He did suffer unconsoled, And we were guilty of His pain. [...] Franciszek Karpiński Ur. 4 października 1741 r. w Hołoskowie Zm. 16 września 1825 r. w Chorowszczyźnie Najważniejsze dzieła: sielanki: Laura i Filon, Do Justyny. Tęskność na wiosnę; pieśni religijne: Pieśń poranna (Kiedy ranne wstają zorze...), Pieśń wieczorna (Wszystkie nasze dzienne sprawy...), Pieśń o narodzeniu Pańskim (Bóg się rodzi, moc truchleje...); wiersze patriotyczne: Pieśń dziada sokalskiego, Żale Sarmaty nad grobem Zygmunta Augusta Od 1750 r. przez osiem lat uczęszczał do kolegium jezuickiego w Stanisławowie. Następnie ukończył studia teologiczne na Akademii we Lwowie. Tam uzyskał tytuł doktora filozofii i nauk wyzwolonych. Później przez półtora roku szkolił się w Wiedniu, doskonalił tam znajomość języków obcych. Po otrzymaniu odpowiedniego wykształcenia rozpoczął pracę nauczycielską. Gdy miał 40 lat wydał pierwszy tomik wierszy Zabawki wierszem. W 1780 r. wyjechał do Warszawy, objął posadę sekretarza księcia Adama Kazimierza Czartoryskiego i wydał trzy kolejne tomy wierszy. W 1793 r. osiedlił się w Kraśniku, a około 1818 r. kupił wieś Chorowszczyznę i tam spędził resztę życia. Był członkiem Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Nauk. autor: Natalia Kur Kupując książkę wspierasz fundację Nowoczesna Polska, która propaguje ideę wolnej kultury. Wolne Lektury to biblioteka internetowa, rozwijana pod patronatem Ministerstwa Edukacji Narodowej. W jej zbiorach znajduje się kilka tysięcy utworów, w tym wiele lektur szkolnych zalecanych do użytku przez MEN, które trafiły już do domeny publicznej. Wszystkie dzieła są odpowiednio opracowane - opatrzone przypisami oraz motywami.
When God Laughs & Other Stories
Jack London
“When God Laughs & Other Stories” is a book by Jack London, an American novelist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and an innovator in the genre that would later become known as science fiction. When God Laughs & Other Stories is a series of short stories by Jack London. It consists of twelve moving and thrilling stories such as: When God Laughs, A Wicked Woman, Make Westing or The Curious Fragment.
When God Laughs and Other Stories
Jack London
A very wise story from the cycle about love. An inexhaustible topic, do not talk about it. No one has yet managed to beat the gods. Although Karkines met people who almost succeeded: Marvin Fisk and Ethel Baird. But the punishment of the gods overtook them at the end.
R. Austin Freeman
"When Rogues Fall Out incorporates some wonderful conundrums to hoodwink and hinder the cleverest of crime readers. This book contains three interconnected stories. In the first, a respectable collector of antiques falls victim to temptation. In the second a police inspector is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a railway tunnel. This section includes an interesting essay on the early use of fingerprint evidence. The third is a classic locked room mystery where someone has been making use of a sealed room in a remote country house. All three are resolved together in the last few pages. The rogues of the title include three very different men engaged in stealing and fencing high-quality jewelry. One is a working-class robber; one a refined antiques dealer turned fence; and one a mysterious middleman with the appearance of a gentleman.
Edgar Wallace
Set in the late 1920s-early 1930s, When the Gangs Came to London is rated as one of Edgar Wallaces best work by fans of his genre of crime fiction. Two rival gangs from Chicago coming to London and competing to blackmail rich men into paying up to prevent being killed. When a lull ensues, Captain Jiggs Allermain of the Chicago Detective Bureau suspects the rival gangs of forming an uneasy alliance. Suddenly a shot rings through the House of Commons, unleashing an outburst of terror even more bloody. Wallace wrote this one towards the end of his life, he may even have been in Hollywood when he wrote it which could explain the very old school Hollywood gangsters!
Herbert George Wells
This book was written in 1899, and is one of the last science-fiction books Wells wrote before his turn towards social realism in his writing. In this dystopian novel, Graham falls into a coma-like sleep, a sleep that he wakes from some 203 years in the future. But times have changed. Due to the wise investments of a board of trustees, Grahams money has compounded into the greatest fortune the world has ever seen, and the trustees have used it to virtually enslave the entire planet. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. This struggle is the main focus of the larger part of the novel. The novel proposes that whatever is done officially for the good of society, individual ambition is unlikely to address the failure of capitalist structures to create a good standard of living for those whose work supports the system.
Arthur Conan Doyle
The final, and certainly climactic, adventure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles Professor George Edward Challenger is 1928s When the World Screamed. It is another Professor Challenger story where a new craziness pressures him to make the earth feel the existence of human being on its surface. Professor says the earth is a giant creature and it doesnt even care or know that we the human being exist on its surface. Professor believes that by drilling into the center of the earth, he will be the first person to let the planet know that there are people on its surface. He begins a very expensive experiment and one day his dreams come true. The majority of the story, like others in the story, is about the build-up to the event. Its narrated by a new character, Peerless Jones, who is an expert on drilling.
H. Rider Haggard
When the World Shook is a classic story, written by H. Rider Haggard, telling about the horror of a ghost town. The plot revolves around three friends one absolutely unshakable skeptic, the other an absolutely believer, and the third and central character is a person who is looking for meaning in life. A hurricane shipwrecks them on an unknown island in the Pacific inhabited by a degenerating people who worship an ancient god called Oro. Three men experience all sorts of difficulties and find all kinds of miracles on the island.