The Household of Sir Thomas More - Couverture souple

Manning, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1230332154 ISBN 13 : 9781230332154

Editeur : Theclassics.Us, 2013

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Household of Sir Thomas More A nne Manning, who died in 1885 is known to this generation by only a few of her many stories, of which The Old Chelsea Bun-S hop, Mary Powell which tells the story of Milton swife, and AN oble Purpose Nobly Won, are perhaps the most read. But she was a delightful writer, who had a singular faculty of putting herself into the past jand she never did this with more reality and warmth of feeling than in the following story. It may seem to some readers that she would have done better had she kept less to the old spelling of the more ordinary words; but if this is a drawback, the whole effect of the book otherwise is to make transparently and perfectly natural the picture of More sday I ts truth to the period may best be understood by comparing the story told in the diary of Margaret More with the life of her father written by her husband, William Roper, which is here prefixed to the supposed story. If we would knowS ir Thomas More from another and critically retrospective point of view, we can turn to the lucid account given of him by M. Henri Bremond in the new series of Lives of theS aints published by Messrs Duckworth Co. For we must not forget that theB lessed Thomas More has formally been added to the saints in the Catholic Calendar.
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Présentation de l'éditeur :

In composing, several years since, a small sketch of the life of this admirable person, which has been published in another biographical collection, I summed up his character as it appeared to me, in terms which it may be pardonable to repeat here; for a second and more exact review of his conduct has furnished no grottnd for change of opinion, and to alter the diction of a few simple passages which the same pen could perhaps scarcely otherwise express, would produce but a silly counterfeit of originality. I shall perhaps take a similar liberty in a few subsequent instances, in the progress of the present work, and beg leave, once for all, to offer this apology for the practice, as well as for having said here so much on the subject. To say thatS ir Thomas More swas the brightest character of the age in which he lived, an age which exhibited the ferocity of uncivilised man without his simplicrty, and the degeneracy of modern manners without their Refinement, were praise beneath his merit; toT he following comprehensive sketch of the life of Sir Thomas More, is taken fromM r. liodge sadmirable Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Theclassics.Us
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1230332154
• ISBN 13: 9781230332154
• Reliure: Broché