Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1855 edition. Auszug: ...strangers and seldomseers feel the beauty of them more than you who dwell with them. I am pleased indeed at the order and cleanness of all your outward things; and look upon you, not only as a person, by way of thankfulness to God for his mercies and ...
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Dieses historische Buch kann zahlreiche Tippfehler und fehlende Textpassagen aufweisen. Kaufer konnen in der Regel eine kostenlose eingescannte Kopie des originalen Buches vom Verleger herunterladen (ohne Tippfehler). Ohne Indizes. Nicht dargestellt. 1855 edition. Auszug: ...strangers and seldomseers feel the beauty of them more than you who dwell with them. I am pleased indeed at the order and cleanness of all your outward things; and look upon you, not only as a person, by way of thankfulness to God for his mercies and goodness to you, specially obliged to a greater measure of piety; but also as one who, being freed in great degrees from secular cares and impediments, can without excuse and allay, intend what you so passionately desire, the service of God." It is not our purpose to relate, even in the briefest manner, the facts of John Evelyn's life, nor can we stay to examine the interior history which forms his true biography, and which, alone, can give those facts significance. This only let us say, that the narrative of Evelyn's career presents us with much that is worthy of deep consideration. Here was a man, endowed with every noble gift of body and of mind, happy in his home, happy in his friends, favoured with affluence, familiar with the highest nobility of the land, and better still, enjoying free intercourse with the nobler aristocracy of genius, and yet acknowledging through the course of a long life the pre-eminent felicities of a religious course, and proving by the consistency of his actions the genuineness of his faith. There is something very beautiful in the decision of a man so earnest in the pursuit of knowledge--so capable of enjoying with keenest relish every pleasure the world could offer, who, nevertheless, deliberately preferred the "good part," and sought, before all things, the "better country." Let us come now to his tomb, and while visiting that quiet resting-place, we shall surely be compelled to acknowledge that "the memory of...
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