The Age of the Fathers, Vol. 1 of 2
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Excerpt from The Age of the Fathers, Vol. 1 of 2: Being Chapter in the History of the Church During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries The ground covered in these volumes is almost exactly the same as that traversed by Dr. Bright in his earliest work, The History of the Church from A.D. 313 to A.D. 451. But the treatment is very different: that book was written for students, and it was the work of an annalist aiming at completeness and verifying each statement by reference to the authority for it: this is intended to be more popular; the interest of the reader is not distracted by notes, the less important details are omitted, and attention is concentrated on the lives of the great fathers and on the great doctrinal controversies; it is the work of an historian and a theologian, writing with a more perfect mastery of his materials, with a truer sense of their relative importance, and with a greater freedom and richness of style. But, though more popular, it is also more learned. It is enriched by a wide and varied reading of thirty-five additional years; and those who have been privileged to see Dr. Bright´s notebooks - his "Sylva" as he called them, amounting to more than sixty volumes - will know with what thoroughness and with what freshness of interest he was wont to digest his reading and make it available for future use. It is also illuminated by the experience of later travel in the countries of which he writes, and many of the scenes described - in Milan, in Rome, and elsewhere - gain a new force from the mind of one who has looked upon them, and looked upon them with the eyes of a vivid imagination, able to bridge the gulf between the scene as it was and as it now is. Above all, the form of the book is affected by the fact that it reproduces the lectures with which he charmed and stimulated and inspired generations of Oxford students. 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.
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