Author: George Thomas Stokes

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Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781331856948

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Excerpt from Some Worthies of the Irish Church: Lectures Delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Dublin Some apology may naturally be expected for the appearance of this volume of lectures. It is always a hazardous experiment to publish a work which has not been revised for the press by its author; and if the wisdom of such a procedure is open to question under all circumstances, it is more than usually so in the case of lectures, written hastily from week to week by one who was suffering from the effects of a long and trying illness. I have not entered upon the task which has been committed to me without a full sense of its responsibility and its delicacy. Some months after Dr. Stokes' death the manuscript of the course of lectures delivered by him in the winter of 1897-8 was placed in my hands, and it was left to me to decide whether they should be given to the public. The suggestion had already been made in the Guardian that this should be done. In coming to the conclusion that this suggestion was one that ought to be acted upon, I was guided by two main considerations: Dr. Stokes' expressed intention with reference to at least a portion of the lectures contained in this volume, and the work which he accomplished in the past. 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.

Download or read book Some Worthies of the Irish Church written by George Thomas Stokes and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Worthies of the Irish Church: Lectures Delivered in the Divinity School of the University of Dublin Some apology may naturally be expected for the appearance of this volume of lectures. It is always a hazardous experiment to publish a work which has not been revised for the press by its author; and if the wisdom of such a procedure is open to question under all circumstances, it is more than usually so in the case of lectures, written hastily from week to week by one who was suffering from the effects of a long and trying illness. I have not entered upon the task which has been committed to me without a full sense of its responsibility and its delicacy. Some months after Dr. Stokes' death the manuscript of the course of lectures delivered by him in the winter of 1897-8 was placed in my hands, and it was left to me to decide whether they should be given to the public. The suggestion had already been made in the Guardian that this should be done. In coming to the conclusion that this suggestion was one that ought to be acted upon, I was guided by two main considerations: Dr. Stokes' expressed intention with reference to at least a portion of the lectures contained in this volume, and the work which he accomplished in the past. 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.