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. 1891 Excerpt: ...But rich was he of holy thought and work. He also was a learned man--a clerk. That Christ's gospel truely would preach, His parishens devoutly would he teach. Benign he was, and wondrous diligent, And in adversity full patient; And such he was yproved often sithes, Full loth were him to answer for his tithes, But ...
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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. 1891 Excerpt: ...But rich was he of holy thought and work. He also was a learned man--a clerk. That Christ's gospel truely would preach, His parishens devoutly would he teach. Benign he was, and wondrous diligent, And in adversity full patient; And such he was yproved often sithes, Full loth were him to answer for his tithes, But rather would he given, out of doubt, Unto his poor parishioners about Of his offering, and eke of his substance. He could in little thing have suffisance. Wide was his parish, and houses far assunder. But he ne left nought for ne rain nor thunder. In sickness and in mischief, to visit The farthest in his parish, much and lit, Upon his feet, and in his hand a staff. This noble example to his sheep he yaf, That first he wrought, and afterwards he taught. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales. AS on horseback the sub-prior and Vian travelled across Northampton toward Lutterworth, the former tried in vain, for the sake of the abbot, to whom he had pledged his faith, to revive Vian's interest in the scholastic theology. But the summer-time was more eloquent to this poetic youth than either Scotus Erigena or the sentences of Peter Lombard. The sub-prior knew that scholasticism was once a most needed revival of intellectual life; and he was sure that Vian's love of free inquiry must honor such a soul as Abelard or Thomas Aquinas. But much as he respected their fearlessness and power, he had not a thread of the scholastic in his whole spirit. Vian was a mystic. "Scholasticism is quibbling about shadows. I prefer the blue sky and the broad green fields. I do not expect anybody to explain them. I can understand neither. I need not. They are realities to me; and I have a sense of liberty with them." There was a snapping of chains in these sentences which did no...
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Good. No Jacket. 8vo. Decorative H.B. with gilt lettering. Bumped @ spine & corners. Edges slightly rubbed. Cover slightly scuffed. Front cover detached, but text is tight.
