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Excerpt from The Life and Times of St. Bernard
Mr object in the publication of the following translation is the bent of a Church-fund at Boughton-undcr Blean. In Kent. My native place. The extreme anxiety of the poor inhabitants to secure for themselves and their children, the inestimable blessings of the ministra tions of the Church, is evident from the subscription list, which contains many contributions of single shil lings and even of pence; but the widow's mite, though reckoned a treasure in heaven, does not sufice to efl'ect an endowment on earth, and I venture to hope that my humble efforts to assist them, may therefore be received with indulgence. No apology can be needed for od'ering a work of Dr. Neander's to the attention of the public; and the soundjudgmentwhich hehas exercised in sepa ratingthefactsot' Bernard'sllfe from themassof chro nicled fiction and superstition in which they were enve loped. Renders this biography peculiarly valuable, and wili.itmst.renderitalsogenerallyaccsptable to the English reader. 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.
