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Brooklyn NY: The Spurgeon Memorial Sermon Society. Good with no dust jacket. 1883. First Edition; First Impression. Paperback. Set 17 #36 in series. Brown paper cover with black letterin… Altro …

Brooklyn NY: The Spurgeon Memorial Sermon Society. Good with no dust jacket. 1883. First Edition; First Impression. Paperback. Set 17 #36 in series. Brown paper cover with black lettering. The sermon is printed and stapled inside this cover. A very collectible historical imprint of Charles Spurgeon distributed by the American Section of the Society. Covering may have chips and minor writing, otherwise very good to fine condition.This booklet is protected by an archival quality sleeve to maintain present condition. Rare booklet intended for distribution, ciculation and return to the Society for re-circulation. Booklet Paperback may indicate a booklet, phamplet, tract or book. Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) was England's best-known preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church, later the Metropolitan Tabernacle where he pastored for 38 years. Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000 people.His oratory skills are said to have held his listeners spellbound in the Metropolitan Tabernacle and many Christians hold his writings in exceptionally high regard among devotional literature. ; Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Set 17, No. 36; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 11 pages ., The Spurgeon Memorial Sermon Society, 1883, 2.5, New York: Vintage Books, 2014. First Vintage Books Edition, Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Very good. Douglas Baz (author photograph). xix, [1], 290, [6] pages. Contains photographs, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. James Romm is the James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College and author of several books, including Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero and Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the War for Crown and Empire. He has edited numerous translations of ancient Greek texts, including the Anabasis of Arrian for the volume The Campaigns of Alexander in the distinguished Landmark Series of Ancient Historians. Seneca can be looked at in two ways. He was a writer, thinker, poet, moralist, and for many years the top advisor and close companion of the Emperor Nero. He was also a clever manipulator of undistinguished origin who connived his way into the center of Roman power. He used verbal brilliance to represent himself as a sage. He sought refuge at the altar of philosophy even while leading an assassination plot against the Emperor Nero, after which Seneca committed suicide. From acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep of history on the grand scale. At the center, the tumultuous life of Seneca, ancient Rome's preeminent writer and philosopher, beginning with banishment in his fifties and subsequent appointment as tutor to twelve-year-old Nero, future emperor of Rome. Controlling them both, Nero's mother, Julia Agrippina the Younger, Roman empress, great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of Emperor Claudius. James Romm seamlessly weaves together the life and written words, the moral struggles, political intrigue, and bloody vengeance that enmeshed Seneca the Younger in the twisted imperial family and the perverse, paranoid regime of Emperor Nero, despot and madman. Romm writes that Seneca watched over Nero as teacher, moral guide, and surrogate father, and, at seventeen, when Nero abruptly ascended to become emperor of Rome, Seneca, a man never avid for political power became, with Nero, the ruler of the Roman Empire. We see how Seneca was able to control his young student, how, under Seneca's influence, Nero ruled with intelligence and moderation, banned capital punishment, reduced taxes, gave slaves the right to file complaints against their owners, pardoned prisoners arrested for sedition. But with time, as Nero grew vain and disillusioned, Seneca was unable to hold sway over the emperor, and between Nero's mother, Agrippina, thought to have poisoned her second husband, and her third, who was her uncle (Claudius), and rumored to have entered into an incestuous relationship with her son and Nero's father, described by Suetonius as a murderer and cheat charged with treason, adultery, and incest, how long could the young Nero have been contained? Dying Every Day is a portrait of Seneca's moral struggle in the midst of madness and excess. In his treatises, Seneca preached a rigorous ethical creed, exalting heroes who defied danger to do what was right or embrace a noble death. As Nero's adviser, Seneca was presented with a more complex set of choices, as the only man capable of summoning the better aspect of Nero s nature, yet, remaining at Nero's side and colluding in the evil regime he created. Dying Every Day is the first book to tell the compelling and nightmarish story of the philosopher-poet who was almost a king, tied to a tyrant was Seneca, the paragon of reason, watched his student spiral into madness and whose descent saw five family murders, the Fire of Rome, and a savage purge that destroyed the supreme minds of the Senate's golden age., Vintage Books, 2014, 3, Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2004. Hardcover. New. Taking cognizance of the world scenario, where the moral and ethical values are on a low ebb, the author feels that it is useless to talk of moral values which the present generation considers to be an outdated concept. However, Professor Bijli who has been brought up in a n atmosphere of justice, fair play, and respect for values, feels that there is a need to revive those values in order to infuse into the minds of the young-the significance of such values. The 21st century is witnessing uproar, injustice, and domination by the so-called civilized societies through their muscle and military power on the helpless nations of the third world. These days, materialism is dominating while spiritual values are declining. The author is disappointed on seeing the bleak and gloomy picture, and despite the generation gap, he in a humble way, strides to revive the thinking of some of the great men and women who touched the heights of excellence. The author hopes that the contribution made by these great individuals will inspire the readers in shaping their own personalities. These days, humility is considered a weakness. One should not forget that the Prophets, the Saints, the Sages, and the great men and women of the past were humble people. Benjamin Franklin-son of a candle maker, Napoleon Bonaparte belonged to a poverty stricken family, Emerson was so poor that the light flicking through the oil paper served as a lamp for him to read, since he couldn`t afford one, Mother Teresa-a fragile nun from Albania became great by serving the poor and unwanted, and Emperor Marcus Aurelius the philosopher king of Rome, who preached contentment all his life, ate simple food and slept in a hard cot. A strong believer in the God of love, at night he used to set down his thoughts on the sadness of fate and the savagery of war. The author feels that it is high time the younger generation, who are the future custodians of the nation, reflect on the biography of these great personalities and cherish their values. It is not a curse to be poor, and it is not a blessing to be rich. History records that all those who touched the heights of excellence were poor and humble people. Printed Pages: 326., Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2004, 6, London: Henry S. King & Co, 1874. New ed. First Series. [xii, 323p, notices, 35p adverts] (Twenty-one sermons delivered between 1849 & 1852 by an Anglican minister in Brighton who belatedly became well-known for his preaching.) Dark brown cloth hardboards with slightly worn gold lettering on spine, corners worn through cloth, spine ends worn & partly frayed 1/8 inch, spine edge tears repaired using PVA, page ends browned, black end papers very good, owner inscription dated 1875 in ink on front flyleaf, pages very good though lightly browned at borders plus ten initial pages with ink line in margins, tight copy, GOOD, Henry S. King & Co, 1874., 2.5<