Sentences with phrase «of old books with»

A stack of old books with aqua covers, an oversized seashell a glass jug with palm leaves clipped from the garden, vintage aqua bottles and candles make for a true beach coastal table vignette.

I probably fell in love with the design of the book because it looks exactly like one of those old books with rough paper that our grandmas probably owned at some point in their lives.

Not exact matches

At 13 years old, Dias is the founder of # 1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that she started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to her peers that featured black girls as the main characters.

And while some older people may discount Mulcahy's strategy of using a chat box on her website as impersonal, she sees it as a way to communicate with customers on their time table — maybe at 11 p.m. when they happen to need a tutor or want to book an appointment.

Inside, a vintage wooden bar lines one wall, with bottles of whiskey and gin sharing space with colorful sweaters, a case of old Rolex watches and money clips, and various books and obscure fashion magazines.

But the short answer for anyone who doesn't want to buy a book is that the standard old - fashioned clinical trial is designed to answer a specific question about a population with lots of different specific characteristics.

Before Dan Price caused a media firestorm by establishing a $ 70,000 minimum wage at his Seattle company, Gravity Payments... before Hollywood agents, reality - show producers, and book publishers began throwing elbows for a piece of the hip, 31 - year - old entrepreneur with the shoulder - length hair and Brad Pitt looks... before Rush Limbaugh called him a socialist and Harvard Business School professors asked to study his radical experiment in paying workers... an entry - level Gravity employee named Jason Haley got really pissed off at him.

Name: Melanie Perkins Company: Canva Work - life balance philosophy: We are what we repeatedly do, and being consistent with perseverance and hardwork have seen me from being a 14 - year - old starting my first business of selling handmade scarves, to a 19 - year - old starting Fusion Books, to where I am with Canva is today.

Selling copies of your book, no matter how old it is, how or when it was published - or preparing the groundwork for your phenomenal success in the future - begins with the decision to do so.

You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

Project Gutenberg is one of the oldest e-book sites with over thousands of books available for free download.

Travis Isaacson, senior director of organizational development at Access Development, a Salt Lake City, affinity marketing business, doesn't want anything that fancy, just an iPod Classic with 120 GB of memory instead of the old 80 GB model he has now so he can squeeze in more of the business books he downloads from Audible.com.

David Patchell - Evans, GoodLife's 57 - year - old founder and CEO, is making the rounds, enthusiastically meeting with new and potential members and signing free copies of his latest lifestyle book, The Real Sexy, Smart and Strong.

The definitive example is Sun Tzu's The Art of War, a 2,000 - year - old book on military strategy that still resonates with entrepreneurs.

It's been going on in the world of finance since day one, with insider trading and stock manipulation some of the oldest tricks in the book.

No matter what religion you have to remember the people who wrote the stories of any holy book were doing it with a way of thinking that is over 1000 years old.

In «The Perils of Art,» the speaker turns the pages of a coffee - table book of paintings with his nine - year - old niece, who seems to prefer only «smiling de La Tour» to various crucifixions and Goya-esque butcheries.

That was very interesting thing to read about and I respect every word it came with and Thank you for the guidance and encouragement therefore I find my self more attracted to read the old books after all they are the elder parts of our book what ever they say although each has his own belief and can figure which are similar to ours and which are not... after all verses seemed as ours although were put differently... Thank you again and wish all the Christians a Happy and Peaceful celebration for this occasion... our prayers and peace upon the soul and the spirit of the Prophet and Messenger of God Jesus the Son of Mary..

People like you really have to get your head out of the bible; spirituality is about your own PERSONAL relationship with god, not the dogma in some stupid old book

And... I do need more proof than a musty 2000 year old book with hundreds of contradictions.,

Well, if it comes down to holy books, the oldest of the scriptures — the Rigveda of India has a take which is very different and much more in accordance with what science is finding:

You mean that plagiarized retelling of Joseph from the Old Testament, which along with the story of Moses and creation and just about everything else in both books were lifted directly from Egyptian and Sumerian mythology, that New Testament?

I happen to care that what I believe can be substantiated with verifiable evidence, you on the other hand accept things based off of a 2000 + year old book that can be and has been debunked numerous times over.

Some older people have the words from the Book of Common Prayer ingrained in their minds after years of repetition and can recall them with a clarity and understanding they may not have with other information.

225 of these are Biblical Scrolls with the text of the Hebrew Old Testament books.

I understand how you feel about this issue, the book Protocols of the Elders of Zion, speaks about how the Jews run the world from the back seat, but just like in the Old Testiment many failed God, but His promise was to them and He will return to them first and we will walk with Him and them.

i can referrence any «bible» when talking about any holy book and still use it properly but not change the topic of discussion... this is the times when i wish i was still in talking terms with my old professor, such mistakes would not have happened and a grand conversation may have ensued... whatever... as i said

There is no debate or controversy regarding the reliability of the original 39 books of the Hebrew Old Testament Cannon, neither with Jews nor Christians.

ALl of you make these claims, and the only «evidence» you ever produce is a 2000 year old book filled with 3000 year old stories.

The claims of which are in direct conflict with the claims of lots of even older books?

Old Testament = Judiasm, add New Testament = Christian, add Koran = Islam but add Book of Mormon and it's Mormonism with a whole different view of the very nature of Deity.

Forty years into her life as a preacher and minister, 72 - year - old Joyce has written more than 100 books and heads up a ministry with more than 700 employees based in the St Louis suburb of Fenton, Missouri.

Based on the best - selling book of the same name, the film tells the real - life story of Colton Burpo, a 4 - year - old boy who awakens from surgery with eye - popping tales of the great beyond.

I realized the other day why I am having such a struggle writing this book on the violence of God in the Old Testament.The reason is because the process of grappling with this issue is requiring me to rethink, rewrite, and redo nearly all of my theology.

According to the Bible God hated more than he loved, and the crap that is the 1st few books of the old testament, which s barbaric and evil, not only to those men that are an abombanation, but those that not only eat pork, but touch a football, shellfish, work on the sabbath, blasphamy, slaves who do nt allow there master to sleep with there wifes / daughters, and those that dared not idolise him because he is a jealous and vengeful God!

But the books of the Old Testament, as we know them, were composed in the period starting with the great prophets Amos, Hosea, Micah and Isaiah.

Esther, along with the Old Testament books Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes, are five scrolls that are read on various Jewish holidays.

Recently I watched the PBS series on the Book of Genesis with a dozen older women at a retirement home.

He said nothing of a book that would combine the old covenant scriptures with the account of His life on earth and letters that were written to people who lived under the law, that people who have never lived under the law would have to try to discern and apply to their lives until He returned, or they died.

So, while books, films and lectures could be used in confirmation class, they should only supplement the main task of putting young Christians in close proximity with older Christians — «mentors» who invite these younger Christians to look over their shoulders as they both attempt to live as Christians.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

What we need to do is return the hearts of the fathers to the hearts of the children as Malachai said in the last book of the Old Testament, lest, as he said, we'd be stricken with a curse.

«The book seems to be merely a prosy detail of imaginary history, with the Old Testament for a model; followed by a tedious plagiarism of the New Testament.

This is one of the oldest questions in the world, far older of course than the Old Testament book of Job, which makes some attempt to deal with it.

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

Similarly the Book of Daniel, written in the second century B.C., represents a type of Judaism in which new apocalyptic hopes were blended with the old devotion to temple and sacrifice.

Then Joseph Stanford, commenting on Robert Louis Wilken's discussion of Christological interpretation of the Old Testament, noted that the Book of Mormon is replete with the affirmation that the Old Testament prophets actually foresaw Christ.

But this rejection, in turn, prompted Hamann to compose and publish a piece called To the Witch at Kadmanbor, a «letter» supposedly written by Nicolai to an old sorceress, asking her to translate Hamann's Monologue from the Chinese of the «Mandarin» who wrote it» a letter that, midway through its course, suddenly becomes a delirious monologue of its own (in which the witch now appears as the Fury Alecto, but with two faces, «a calf's eye like Juno's, and the watery eye of an owl») before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be forced like his illustrious ancestor Haman — from the book of Esther — to mount the scaffold.

The second credo begins, rather than ends, with reference to the fathers of Israel, the Patriarchs, and therefore more closely retains the present form contained in the first six books of the Old Testament, from Genesis to Joshua.

The only people who seem to have an issue with that are christians and all christians base this off of is a 2000 year old outdated book that was written by man, inspired by man and that has been proven to b largely wrong (very few actual facts are contained within those pages).