Saksagan
Two Miracles part 2
Batora`s house, with its carved wooden balconies, commanding a view of the church, stood out against the clear horizon in the ruddy September sunset,...
True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal part 2
Some time after, Mr. Veal`s friends got him a place in the customhouse at Dover, which occasioned Mrs. Veal, by little and little, to...
True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal part 1
This thing is so rare in all its circumstances, and on so good authority, that my reading and conversation have not given me anything...
Maese Pfirez the Organist part 5
The multitudinous voices of the metal tubes gave forth a prolonged and majestic chord, which died away little by little, as if a gentle...
True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs Veal part 4
Theirs was to edification, and to build one another up in faith, so that they were not as we are, nor are we as...
The Bet part 1
Anton Chekhov (1860 1904)
Chekhov stands out as one of the greatest short story writers of the world. Although he received an M.D. degree, he...
John of Damascus part 28
But there is a difference not of principle but of practice between East and West, to which we have already alluded. Especially since Iconoclasm,...
John of Damascus part 24
The icon seems to have been in some sort the channel through which the saint was approached; it has an almost sacramental virtue in...
John of Damascus part 25
A curious story, that illustrates the length to which theworship of images had gone by the eighth century, is told in the “New Garden”...
John of Damascus part 27
Epiphanius of Salamis (d. 403) tore down a curtain in a church in Palestine because it had a picture of Christ or a saint....
