Abbeychurch or Self-Control and Self-Conceit

By Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Book Id: WPLBN0000675624
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Abbeychurch or Self-Control and Self-Conceit
Author:	Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


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Excerpt
Preface: Rechauffes are proverbially dangerous, but everyone runs into them sooner or later, and the world has done me the kindness so often to inquire after my first crude attempt, that after it has lain for many years ?out of print,? I have ventured to launch it once more-- imperfections and all-- though it is guilty of the error of pointing rather to a transient phase of difficulty than to a general principle. The wheels of this world go so quickly round, that I have lived to see that it would have been wiser in the clergyman to have directed rather than obstructed the so-called ?march of intellect.?