The Yoga sutras of Patanjali: The book of the spiritual man : an interpretation

Charles Johnston

Religion & Spirituality

Paul Watkins

Title: A narrative of the incidents attending the capture, detention, and ransom of Charles Johnston of Botetourt County Virginia : who was made prisoner by the Indians, on the river Ohio, in the year 1790 : together with an interesting account of the fate of his companions, five in number, one of whom suffered at the stake : to which are added sketches of Indian character and manners, with illustrative anecdotes

A Narrative of the Incidents Attending the Capture, Detention, and Ransom of Charles Johnston of Botetourt County Virginia: Who Was Made Prisoner By ... with an Interesting Account of the Fate Of...

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Excerpt from A Narrative of the Incidents Attending the Capture, Detention, and Ransom of Charles Johnston, of Botetourt County, Virginia: Who Was Made Prisoner by the Indians, on the River Ohio, in the Year 1790; Together With an Interesting Account of the Fate of His Companions, Five in Number, One of Whom Suffered at the Stake; To Which Are Added, Sketches of Indian Character and Manners The excellence of his heart, and the correctness of his moral principles, placefhnn above all suspicion. But another objection arises, from his omission of many striking details. It shall be my object to present as minute and faithful a narrative, of the occurrences when I was captured, and while in the hands of the savages, as my memory can supply. After the lapse of so many years. I can confi dently assert, that my recollection of incidents, during a period so calamitous to me, and while my facultieswere vigorous, is sufiiciently'perfect to give them without danger of mistake. Every one, who has attained to my age, must have ascertained by experience, that the striking events of youthful life are fastened indelibly on the memoryta'nd that their impression is more perfect, and is retained with greater precision, than those circumstances which occur to us in our declining years. I en tertain no fears that my veracity will be questioned by those to whom I am known; and lappeal to others, who may read my details, whether they are distinguished by any features, which oughtfto bring upon them the frowns of incredulity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

A Narrative of the Incidents Attending the Capture, Detention, and Ransom of Charles Johnston, of Botetourt County, Virginia: Who Was Made Prisoner by the Indians, on the River Ohio, in the Year 1790; Together With an Interesting Account of the Fate of Hi

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This is the complete book in one volume.  Several illustrations are included and was produced using rich text formatting.  Above the Marienkirche, in Cracow, rises two towers of unequal height, and crowned with strange cupolas like Oriental turbans.  Before the cathedral opens the old-world market place with its arches. If you stand in the market-place in the morning, or when the evening sunlight reddens the citadel of the Wawel, strange music suddenly breaks out overhead, sad, silvery; the clarion call of a by-gone age. It re-echoes away up in the blue, coming from one sees not where, and flows in waves of ringing, pathetic melody over the old capital of the Poles. Then the music suddenly ceases, and there is a stillness, a stillness even more mysterious than the sudden outburst of sound.  That music is a voice from the past. When the hosts were gathered against fair Cracow a minstrel in the highest tower of the cathedral cheered the hearts of the besieged with the martial strains of his clarion, that resounded with warlike challenge over the city, while the battle raged around the walls. A bullet from the enemy cut short his signal and his life ; and ever after, morning and evening, the same melody rings out over the city for a memorial, but now in piercing sadness, like a dirge, and stops suddenly at the point where the minstrel fell, breaking oflF in the middle of a bar. The life of the Polish nation might well take that broken music as its symbol : it, too, ended in the middle of a bar, cut off from among the nations. High up in the citadel, on its rocky eminence above the town are the crowns and robes and scepters of the kings of Poland, and all the royal finery of jewels and gold. The trappings of kings, but no kings to wear them. For the kings of Poland lie there, in their cold shrines of stone, in the vaults of the fortress and every morning and evening they hear the clarion dirge of the nation suddenly broken off. And the rest is silence.  In his great epic of Poland, Sienkiewicz has shown us the nation at the summit of its power—a kingdom—a commonwealth as strong as any in Europe, which had beaten the Tartars and Swedes, and before which even the grand dukes of Moscow had more than once retreated vanquished. Poland stretched from the Black Sea to the Baltic, across all Europe, and from the Dnieper to the Oder. The Polish arms had a thousand splendid achievements on their roll of honor, and were yet destined for signal victories over the Turks, which should leave all Christendom their debtors.  But the novelist also shows the seeds of the nation's ruin, ready to grow rank and luxuriant, even at the noontide of glory. The Slavonic world was divided into three parts: the despotism of Moscow, beginning a new life under the young dynasty of the Romanoffs; the kingdom of Poland, really an association of powerful oligarchs, in which the mass of the people had no voice nor freedom; and the wild hordes of the Cossacks, where every man was his own lord among the great rivers that flow into the Black Sea.  To-day the despotism stands alone. It has overshadowed the free hordes of the Cossacks; it has overshadowed the kings of Poland, and driven back the Tartars to the uttermost verge of the ocean. It has, indeed, overshadowed much more—a sixth part of the whole world. Sienkiewicz has shown the elements of disintegration at work among the Cossack hordes. He has also shown clearly the causes that ruined Poland : the kinglets rising up around the elective king with almost royal might, and with ambition too great even for kings. Then round the magnates Pototskis, Kalinovskis, Vishnyovyetskis, were the lesser nobles, withstanding them in their turn, as the magnates withstood the king. Then, beneath all, the people, dumb serfs, downtrodden, with no voice in their destinies, and not even the name of freedom....

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