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31The pen is mightier than the sword — is a metonymic adage coined by Edward Bulwer Lytton in 1839 for his play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy .cite book title=Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy: A Play in Five Acts. publisher=Saunders and Otley, Conduit St. location=London year=1839… …
32The Phenomenon of Man — ( Le Phénomène Humain , 1955) is a non fiction book written by French philosopher, paleontologist and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In this work, Teilhard describes evolution as a process that leads to increasing complexity,… …
33The Aberdeen Breviary — The Aberdeen Breviary † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Aberdeen Breviary This breviary may be described as the Sarum Office in a Scottish form. The use of the ancient Church of Salisbury was generally adopted in Scotland and Ireland… …
34The Martyrs of Gorkum — The Martyrs of Gorkum † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Martyrs of Gorkum The year 1572, Luther and Calvin had already wrested from the Church a great part of Europe. The iconoclastic storm had swept through the Netherlands, and was… …
35The Barque of Dante — Artist Eugène Delacroix Year 1822 Type Oil on canvas Dimensions …
36The Light of Asia — subtitled The Great Renunciation , is a book by Edwin Arnold. The first edition of the book was published in London in July 1879.In the form of poem, the book endeavors to describe the life and time of Prince Gautama Buddha, who after attaining …
37The History of England from the Accession of James the Second — is the full title of the multi volume work by Lord Macaulay more generally known as The History of England .The history is famous for its brilliant ringing prose and for its confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of… …
38Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion — ▪ fraudulent document fraudulent document that served as a pretext and rationale for anti Semitism in the early 20th century. The document purports to be a report of a series of 24 (in other versions, 27) meetings held at Basel, Switz., in… …
39Ari Thorgilsson the Learned — ▪ Icelandic historian born c. 1067 died November 9, 1148 Icelandic chieftain, priest, and historian whose Íslendingabók (Libellus Islandorum; The Book of the Icelanders) is the first history of Iceland written in the vernacular. Composed… …
40The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …
