George Townshend

Here is a pen-picture of 'Abdu'l-Bah by an author whom Shoghi Effendi called 'the best writer we have . . . the pre-eminent Bah ' writer.'This collection, which was published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of 'Abdu'l-Bah 's journey to the West, brings together in one volume the various writings of George Townshend to and about 'Abdu'l-Bah , so that his own portrait of the Master emerges, with fitting reverence to the Centre of the Covenant, the Exemplar, the Mystery of God. George Townshend dwells with emphasis on 'Abdu'l-Bah 's historic journey to the West in his essays on 'The Master' and 'The Exemplar'. In 'A Study of a Christ-like Character', 'The Letters of 'Abdu'l-Bah ' and 'The Fire of the King's Love', he leads the reader into a fuller realization of that divine love and spirituality exemplified in the Master's life.'To live today in deed and truth the kind of life that Jesus of Nazareth led and bade his followers lead, to love God wholeheartedly and for God's sake to love all mankind, even one's slanderers and enemies, to give consistently good for evil, blessings for curses, kindness for cruelty . . . to preserve one's courage and sweetness and calm faith in God - to do all this and yet to play the man in a world of men, sharing at home and in business the common life of humanity, administering when occasion arose affairs and small, handling complex situations with foresight and firmness . . . to how many men is such an achievement given as it has been given in this age of ours to 'Abdu'l-Bah ?' George Townshend.

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Harvard University Houghton LibraryN021136Money, who made the ascent in July, 1785, notes in his signed dedication to Townshend that he had the poem printed because of incorrect copies circulating. Norwich, 1791?]. 23, 1]p.; 4

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++Bodleian Library (Oxford)T166951Anonymous. By George Townshend, Marquis Townshend. London: printed for J. Lion, 1751. 47, 1]p.; 8

In this collection of essays, poems and meditations the reader will encounter wisdom, aspirations and the initmate and affecting thoughts of one who was appointed a Hand of the Cuase by the Guardian of the Baha'm Faith.