The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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. 1853 Excerpt: ...shall be fulfilled? Did Christ say, that true repentance and actual faith would not save a soul, unless the priest's verbal remission was superadded? In fine. If it were in my power I would h...
MoreThis 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. 1853 Excerpt: ...shall be fulfilled? Did Christ say, that true repentance and actual faith would not save a soul, unless the priest's verbal remission was superadded? In fine. If it were in my power I would have this book printed in a convenient form, and distributed through every house, at least, through every village and parish throughout the kingdom. A volume of thought and of moral feelings, the offspring of thought, crowd upon me, as I review the different parts of this admirable man's life and creed. Only compare his conduct to James Wadsworth (probably some ancestral relative of my honored friend, William Wordsworth: for the same name in Yorkshire, from whence his father came, is pronounced Wadsworth) with that of the far, far too highly rated, Bishop Hall; his letter to Hall tenderly blaming his (Hall's) bitterness to an old friend mistaken, and then his letter to that friend defending Hall! What a picture of goodness! I confess, in all Ecclesiastical History I have read of no man so spotless, though of hundreds in which the biographers have painted them as masters of perfection: but the moral tact soon feels the truth. NOTES.ON BAXTER'S LIFE OF HIMSELF.--1820 Among the grounds for recommending the perusal of our elder writers, Hooker--Taylor---Baxter--in short almost any of the folios composed from Edward VI. to Charles II. I note:--1. The overcoming the habit of deriving your whole pleasure passively from the hook itself, which can only be-effected by excitement of curiosity or of some passion. Force yourself to.reflect on what you read paragraph by paragraph, and in a short time you will derive your pleasure, an ample portion of it, at least, from the activity of your own mind. All else is picture sunshine. 2. The conquest of party and sectarian prejudices, when ...
| Publisher | RareBooksClub.com |
| Binding | Paperback (76 editions) |
| Reading Level | Uncategorized
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| # of Pages | 234 |
| ISBN-10 | 1236243404 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1236243409 |
| Publication Date | 05/19/2012 |
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