A Country Curates Autobiography Or Passages Of A Life Without A Living

Excerpt from A Country Curate's Autobiography, or Passages of a Life Without a Living, Vol. 1 of 2 AN autobiography, even when it carries with it the sanction of personage or celebrity, labours under a reproach which it must al ways require a good deal of moral courage to encounter. A man, say they, must needs have a considerable share of self-conceit or ill humour, before he can sit down, day by day, and write about himself; as if he thought his thoughts more profound, and judged his judg ment more worthy, than what we see to distinguish every moral creature in the uni verse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Country Curate's Autobiography, or Passages of a Life Without a Living, Vol. 2 of 2 Who first pronounced the name of Christ to this land? Indeed. Shade of Cobbett! Thine own sar casm Shall reply Some Protestant saint, doubt less. Some saint, like Paul, who protested, m spite of cruel threatenings, mockings, tortures, Opposition and death in various forms, against the paganism of the ancient Britons - not the English. This is exactly the tale by which the poor, benighted natives of the sister Isle are cajoled into a veneration for those who lord it over God's heritage. The work, say they, was begun, continued, and ended by the popes, one of whom sent over some Monks, who set tled at Canterbury, and from whose beginning, the Christian religion spread, like the grain of mustard seed, rapidly over the land. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.