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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. 1892. Excerpt: ... commending their souls very earnestly to God." Do not say that this is Utopian in the modern sense of the word, that is to say, chimerical or impossible. These were the thoughts and feelings that guided the whole life of Blessed Thomas More. There is, however, a satirical force in them: that men who had but the light of Nature should welcome their appearance before God, while Christians, to whom is promised the Beatific Vision, should shrink from it, defer it as long as possible, and speak with bated breath of the " poor " souls who have gone to enjoy it! Let me point to another pageant, that of the Great Statesman. In his boyish verses Blessed Thomas had described the elderly man: --With locks thin and hoar, Wise and discreet, the public weal therefore He helps to rule. He himself arrived at this stage, a knight, a privy councillor, the king's secretary, orator on great occasions, treasurer of the exchequer, negotiator of treaties, ambassador to the imperial court, personal attendant on the king in his pomps and splendours. Had all these things dazzled him? Not in the least. In the year 1522, when he was forty-four years old, he sat down to write a book on The Four Last Things, that is, Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. We see in this book with what thoughts he kept his heart humble. He is but an actor in a gay coat on the stage of life, which he must soon quit. He is a condemned malefactor already in the cart that will carry him to the gallows. The road may be long or short, but the sentence is irrevocably passed, and to the place of execution he must surely come. Some will exclaim that this is a gloomy view of life. Well, More calls it "homely ." It is a true one as regards this world, and enough to make any man sober who entertains it. Yet in the depth...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150524097
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 62
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 115052409X
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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