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Excerpt from The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson Newly Edited by Sir Ernest Clarke
The Whole of the seventeen Chapters of Book II. Of Past and Present, published in 1843, are devoted to a study of Abbot Samson, and the lessons which Carlyle thought our own poor century could learn from him. 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.
