Writer: Charles Kingsley (page 2)

Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk SERMONS FOR THE TIMES Contents: Fathers and Children Salvation A Good Conscience Names Sponsorship Justification by Faith Duty and Superstition Sonship The Lord’s Prayer The Doxology Ahab and Naboth The Light of God Providence England’s Strength The Life of God God’s Offspring Death in Life Shame Forgiveness The True

Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Scientific Lectures and Essays Contents: {0} On Bio-Geology The Study of Natural History Superstition Science Thoughts in a Gravel-Pit How to Study Natural History The Natural Theology of the Future ON BIO-GEOLOGY {1} I am not sure that the subject of my address is rightly chosen. I am not

This etext was prepared from the 1880 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays Contents: Woman’s Work in a Country Parish The Science of Health The Two Breaths Thrift Nausicaa in London; or, the Lower Education of Women The Air-Mothers The Tree of Knowledge Great Cities and

This etext was produced from the 1890 Macmillan and Co. “Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays” edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk PLAYS AND PURITANS {1} by Charles Kingsley The British Isles have been ringing for the last few years with the word ‘Art’ in its German sense; with ‘High Art,’ ‘Symbolic Art,’ ‘Ecclesiastical

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1889 Macmillan and Co. edition. MADAM HOW AND LADY WHY PREFACE My dear boys,–When I was your age, there were no such children’s books as there are now. Those which we had were few and dull, and the pictures in them ugly and mean:

ESSAYS*** Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk LITERARY AND GENERAL ESSAYS Contents: {0} The Stage as it was Once Thoughts on Shelley and Byron Alexander Smith and Alexander Pope Tennyson Burns and his School The Poetry of Sacred and Legendary Art On English Composition On English Literature Grots and Groves Hours with the Mystics Frederick

Historical Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley Contents: The First Discovery of America Cyrus, Servant of the Lord Ancient Civilisation Rondelet Vesalius Paracelsus Buchanan THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF AMERICA Let me begin this lecture {1} with a scene in the North Atlantic 863 years since. “Bjarne Grimolfson was blown with his ship into the Irish

Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley Scanned and proofed by David Price ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Glaucus; or The Wonders of the Shore Dedication. MY DEAR MISS GRENFELL, I CANNOT forego the pleasure of dedicating this little book to you; excepting of course the opening exhortation (needless enough in your case) to those who

This etext was produced from the 1890 Macmillan and Co. “Plays and Puritans and Other Historical Essays” edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk FROUDE’S HISTORY OF ENGLAND {1} by Charles Kingsley There appeared a few years since a ‘Comic History of England,’ duly caricaturing and falsifying all our great national events, and representing the English

Transcribed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk DAVID: FIVE SERMONS NOTE:–The first four of these Sermons were preached before the University of Cambridge. SERMON I. DAVID’S WEAKNESS Psalm lxxviii. 71, 72, 73. He chose David his servant, and took him away from the sheep-folds. As he was following the ewes great with young ones, he took