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The Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Hebert, and Sanderson
The Lives of Donne Wotton Hooker Hebert and Sanderson Author:Izaak Walton General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1832 Original Publisher: Hilliard, Gray Subjects: Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the origin... more »al. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE INTRODUCTION. I Have been persuaded by a friend, that I Ought to obey, to write the Life of Richard Hooker, the happy author of five (if not more) of the eight learned books of " The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity." And though I have undertaken it, yet it hath been with some unwillingness ; foreseeing that it must prove to me, and especially at this time of my age, a work of much labor to inquire, consider, research, and determine, what is needful to be known concerning him. For I knew him not in his life, and must therefore not only look back to his death (now sixty-four years past), but almost fifty years beyond that, even to his childhood and youth ; and gather thence such observations and prognostics, as may at least adorn, if not prove necessary for the completing of what I have undertaken. This trouble I foresee, and foresee also that it is impossible to escape censures ; against which I will not hope my well-meaning and diligence can protect me (for I consider the, age in which I live); and shall therefore but entreat of my reader a suspension of them, till I have made knownunto him some reasons, which, I myself would now fain believe, do make me in some measure fit for this undertaking. And if these reasons shall not acquit me from all censures, they may at least abate of their severity ; and this is all I can probably hope for. My reasons follow. About forty years past (for I am no...« less