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Excerpt from D'aubigne's "History of the Great Reformation in Germany and Switzerland," Reviewed: Or the Reformation in Germany Examined in Its Instruments, Causes, and Manner, and in Its Influence on Religion, Government, Literature and General Civilization

Tm: following pages were wntten during intervals snatched from severe missionary labors. Their appearance in the present form, is at least as much the result of accident as of previous design. The writer had at first merely intended to prepare, for one of our Catholic Magazines, two or three papers, reviewing the late work of M. D'aunrcns on the Reformation. He had made considerable progress in this undertaking, before the idea of writing a book even occurred to his mind. He was, however, subsequently led to adopt this resolution, by the great extent and importance of the subjeci, and the utter impossibility, in which he found himself, of doing any thing like justice to it in a few brief essays. These would scarcely have afforded suficient space to exhibit even a meagre catalogue of M. D'acarorta's numerous omissions, blunders, and misrepresentations.

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Excerpt from D'aubigne's "History of the Great Reformation in Germany and Switzerland," Reviewed: Or the Reformation in Germany Examined in Its Instruments, Causes, and Manner, and in Its Influence on Religion, Government, Literature and General Civilization

A full and correct history of the reformation in Germany is, it is believed, a desideratum in our English Catholic literature. The writer of this essay, far from flattering himself that he has supplied this deficiency, has merely Wished to awaken attention to the subject. How far he has succeeded, the public will best judge. Conscious of the many imperfections of the work, he could have wished that some one more competent, and more experienced in writing, had engaged in the undertaking. To his brethren of the clergy and laity, many of whom would have been certainly better qualified than himself for the task, he would say with the old Latin poet.

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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.