A Series of Lay Sermons: On Good Principles and Good Breeding (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from A Series of Lay Sermons: On Good Principles and Good Breeding

I have now given so many tales of perfect truth to the public, many of them with not one word of truth-in them, that I know I Shall not be believed in this, and that people will say, Oho! This is a mere subterfuge of the Shepherd's to get off, in case of any unsound tenets or instances of bad taste. It is, neverthe less, literally true; and I shall tell you how it came to my hand, which was not in a very fair way.

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Excerpt from A Series of Lay Sermons: On Good Principles and Good Breeding

It being likely that after the publication of this volume I shall be called to fill a chair of moral philosophy in some one of the cities of the United States, or Oxford at least; therefore, to prevent disappointment on the one side, and awkwardness on the other, I hereby profess, that a great number of the most valuable maxims and observations in the following work are taken from a MS. translation of the works of an old French monk of the last century, whose name, as the writer of them, or as an author at all, I have never been able to find out in any history or biography.

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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.