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Excerpt from The Life of St. Frances of Rome: With an Introductory Essay on the Miraculous Life of the Saints
In presenting, then, the present and other similar volumes to the ordinary reader, I anticipate some such questions as these Do you really put these stories into our hands as history? Are these marvellous tales to be regarded as poetry, romance, superstitious dream ing, or as historical realities? If you profess to believe in their truth, how do you reconcile their character with the universal aspect Of human life, as it appears to us and to our. Friends? And finally, if you claim for them the assent to which proved facts have a right from every candid mind, to what extent Of detail do you profess to believe in their authenticity? To these and similar questions I 1eply by the following Observations.
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In presenting, then, the present and other similar volumes to the ordinary reader, I anticipate some such questions as these Do you really put these stories into our hands as history? Are these marvellous tales to be regarded as poetry, romance, superstitious dream ing, or as historical realities? If you profess to believe in their truth, how do you reconcile their character with the universal aspect Of human life, as it appears to us and to our. Friends? And finally, if you claim for them the assent to which proved facts have a right from every candid mind, to what extent Of detail do you profess to believe in their authenticity? To these and similar questions I 1eply by the following Observations.
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.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Georgiana Fullerton
Hardback
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ISBN - 9780265210598
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Page Count - 274
Paperback
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ISBN - 9781331641896
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Page Count - 276
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