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Charles Kingsley

Health and EducationCharles Kingsley Health and Education THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH Whether the British race is improving or degenerating? What, if it seem probably degenerating, are the causes of so great an evil? How they can be, if not destroyed, at least arrested?—These are questions worthy the a...

Literary and General Lectures and EssaysCharles Kingsley Literary and General Lectures and Essays THE STAGE AS IT WAS ONCE 1 Let us think for a while upon what the Stage was once, in a republic of the past—what it may be again, I sometimes dream, in some republic of the future. In order to do thi...

Alexandria and Her SchoolsCharles Kingsley Alexandria and Her Schools / Four Lectures Delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh ALEXANDRIA AND HER SCHOOLS. 1 PREFACE I should not have presumed to choose for any lectures of mine such a subject as that which I have tried to treat in thi...

Town and Country SermonsCharles Kingsley Town and Country Sermons SERMON I. HOW TO KEEP PASSION WEEK (Preached before the Queen.)Philippians ii. 5-11. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made hims...

Out of the Deep: Words for the SorrowfulCharles Kingsley Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful I. OUT OF THE DEEP OF SUFFERING AND SORROW Save me, O God, for the waters are come in even unto my soul: I am come into deep waters; so that the floods run over me. —Ps. lxix. 1, 2.I am brought into ...

Froude's History of EnglandCharles Kingsley Froude's History of England There appeared a few years since a ‘Comic History of England,’ duly caricaturing and falsifying all our great national events, and representing the English people, for many centuries back, as a mob of fools and knaves, led by...

Sermons for the TimesCharles Kingsley Sermons for the Times SERMON I. ‘FATHERS AND CHILDREN’ Malachi iv. 5, 6. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the c...

Westward Ho! Or, The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen ElizabethCHAPTER I. HOW MR. OXENHAM SAW THE WHITE BIRDCHAPTER II. HOW AMYAS CAME HOME THE FIRST TIMECHAPTER III. OF TWO GENTLEMEN OF WALES, ...

Sir Walter Raleigh and His TimeCharles Kingsley Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time ‘Truth is stranger than fiction.’ A trite remark. We all say it again and again: but how few of us believe it! How few of us, when we read the history of heroical times and heroical men, take the story simply as it st...

True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' LibrariesCharles Kingsley True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries “Yet was he courteous still to every wight,And loved them that did to armes incline.” Spenser.INTRODUCTORY NOTE This little volume is selecte...