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Chautauqua, historical and descriptive; a guide to the principal points of interest on Lake Chautauqua, Chautauqua, Point Chautauqua, Mayville, Point ... . Also, a complete history of the Chautau - Brossura
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 Excerpt: ...men of all centuries and of all nations pass hurriedly before the reader. The great deeds and the great doers are pointed out. The vast world of universal literature is opened--from the first inscriptions on stones and bricks in the Oriental world to the latest products of the greatest pens of this nineteenth century. Science--that interprets stars and stones, atoms and bioplasms, facts and forces in all departments of human research--is also presented to the C. L. S. C. reader, that he may know how deep and high, and wide and rich, and mysterious are the universe of matter and the glorious mind of man. "What college students look at in their long curriculum, the C. L. S. C. student may also see. What they admire in literature and art he may admire. "Afterward he may explore more exhaustively particular regions of knowledge, achieve power and reap worthy results in attainment. But the first four years he spends in broad outlook, and as he tests he may develop his tastes, and through the added years increase and rejoice in the knowledge and inspiration and usefulness which reward the patient student." MEMORIAL DAYS. Sixteen days are set apart as days of special interest to every member of the C. L. S. C, and as days of devout prayer for the furtherance of the objects of this society. On these days all members are urgently invited to read the literary and scriptural selections indicated, to collect some facts about the authors whose birthdays are thus commemorated, and to invoke the blessing of our Heavenly Father upon this attempt to exalt His word, and to understand and rejoice in His works. The selections to be read on the memorial days are published in a small volume--Chautauqua Text-Book No. 7, "Memorial Days." Price, 10 cents. 1...
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