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Teachings of Experience; Or, Lessons I Have Learned on My Way Through Life. Author's Ed
Joseph Barker
Paperback. General Books LLC 2009-12-18.
ISBN 9781150032066
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: E.W. Allen Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. 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: Books that proved of use to me. 23. I had sunk below the level of ancient Paganism, and the books which I read on my first awakening to a consciousness that I was wrong, were Pagan works. I read much in Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Seneca, for a time, and then in Plutarch, M. A. Antonine, and Epictetus. The works of Epictetus, with the comments of Simplicius, proved exceedingly profitable. I then read the writings of Theodore Parker, Dr. Channing, and some of the works of Dr. Priestley, and got good from all. They all helped to inspire me with a horror of Atheism, and to strengthen my faith in God, and in His boundless and eternal love. I next read a number of my own works, beginning with those that were somewhat sceptical, and reading backwards to those which were Christian. I then read freely in Hooker, Baxter, and Howe; in Jeremy Taylor, William Law, and Bishop Butler. I read Shakespeare freely, and Pope ; and then Thompson, and Goldsmith, and Young, and Cowper, and Tennyson, and several others of our poets. Then came the writings of Burke, and Penn, and Wesley ; of Robert Hall, and of Dr. Cooke, and of Mr. Newton ; with Carlyle, and Paley, and Grotius. I also read Guizot's History of Civilisation, and those portions of Dr. Henry's History of England that referred to the Church of Christianity. Still later I read Augustine's Confessions, Montalembert's Monks of the West, and everything I could find to illustrate the history of Christianity. I was delighted, transported, with many of Wesley's hymns. I found in them an amount of truth, and beauty, and richness of go
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