Robert F. Tessmer

Robert F. Tessmer uploaded a cover image to Intense Moments with the Savior: Learning to Feel Friday, May 17, 2013.

Robert F. Tessmer uploaded a cover image to Heir to a Dream Friday, April 19, 2013.

Robert F. Tessmer edited the summary of Lionel Lincoln: The Leaguer of Boston Thursday, April 4, 2013.

• Written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the beginnings of the American Revolution, Lionel Lincoln was a radically new experiment in historical fiction. To recreate its events with the utmost accuracy, Cooper visited Boston in person in 1824 to study buildings and terrain, examine battlefields, read affidavits, consult records of the weather, and compare primary sources. George Bancroft declared in 1852 that Cooper had "described the battle of Bunker Hill better than it is described in any other work."

  Announced as the first in a series of "Legends of the Thirteen Republics," Lionel was the only book of the series to be written, perhaps because it contained what Cooper wished to say at the time about the Revolution. Despite some improbable elements, it retains interest and pertinence today as an interpretation of the tensions--social, political, and military-- that erupted in 1775.

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Robert F. Tessmer edited the description of Leisure : The Basis of Culture Thursday, March 28, 2013.

• One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper’s Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act.

  Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the reality of the world. Pieper shows that the Greeks and medieval Europeans, understood the great value and importance of leisure. He also points out that religion can be born only in leisure — a leisure that allows time for the contemplation of the nature of God. Leisure has been, and always will be, the first foundation of any culture.

  Pieper maintains that our bourgeois world of total labor has vanquished leisure, and issues a startling warning: Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for non-activity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture — and ourselves.

  “Pieper’s message for us is plain... The idolatry of the machine, the worship of mindless know-how, the infantile cult of youth and the common mind — all this points to our peculiar leadership in the drift toward the slave society... Pieper’s profound insights are impressive and even formidable.”
  — New York Times Book Review

  “Pieper has subjects involved in everyone’s life; he has theses that are so counter to the prevailing trends as to be sensational; and he has a style that is memorably clear and direct.”
  — Chicago Tribune

  “This book is a gem. No other book its size will teach us so many true things about everything we need to know to understand what and why we are or about how to live a life worth living.”
  — James V. Schall, SJ, from the Foreword

  Josef Pieper is one of the most renowned and popular philosophers of the 20th century. He wrote dozens of titles on all aspects of philosophy and living, including Only the Lover Sings, Guide to Thomas Aquinas, Hope and History, In Defense of Philosophy, and In Search of the Sacred.

Robert F. Tessmer uploaded a cover image to The Holiness of God Thursday, March 14, 2013.

Robert F. Tessmer edited the description of The Fool Of Quality - Or, The History Of Henry, Earl Of Moreland Wednesday, February 27, 2013.

• The Fool of Quality; or, The History of Henry, Earl of Moreland (1765-70), a picaresque and sentimental novel by the Irish writer Henry Brooke, is the only one of his works which has enjoyed any great reputation.<1>reputation. The somewhat shapeless plot is an account of the doings of young Harry Clinton, who, rejected by his decadent and aristocratic father, is educated on enlightened principles by his philanthropic uncle. Thus equipped to fight the evils of the world the innocent yet wise hero does his best to better the lot of the unfortunate Hammel Clement and his family, and other deserving cases, in the intervals between the author’s frequent philosophical digressions and commentaries on the action.

Robert F. Tessmer uploaded a cover image to The Fool Of Quality - Or, The History Of Henry, Earl Of Moreland Wednesday, February 27, 2013.

Robert F. Tessmer uploaded a cover image to Love's endeavour, love's expense. Tuesday, February 26, 2013.

Robert F. Tessmer edited the description of The heart of Asbury's journal; Saturday, February 23, 2013.

• This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on eachBeing the substance of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced bythe digitization process. Though we have made best efforts -printed journals of the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally importantReverend Francis Asbury, forty-five years an itinerant preacher in America and have elected to bring the book back into print as partthirty-two years General Superintendent of our continuing commitment tothe preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.Methodist Episcopal Church,

Robert F. Tessmer uploaded a cover image to The heart of Asbury's journal; Saturday, February 23, 2013.