Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is true, the style of the book is not all that could be\r\ndesired: there are passages which can possess an interest\r\nonly to the antiquarian; there are others with nothing to\r\nredeem them but the glow of their eloquence; there are\r\nmany repetitions; there is an occasional use of arguments\r\n\"plus ingenieux que solides,\" as M. Saisset says. Augustine's\r\ngreat admirer, Erasmus, does not scruple to call him a writer\r\n\"obscuræ subtilitatis et parum amœnæ prolixitatis;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_21_21\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_21_21\">[21]</a> but\r\n\"the toil of penetrating the apparent obscurities will be rewarded\r\nby finding a real wealth of insight and enlightenment.\"\r\nSome who have read the opening chapters of the <i>City of God</i>,\r\nmay have considered it would be a waste of time to proceed;\r\nbut no one, we are persuaded, ever regretted reading it all.\r\nThe book has its faults; but it effectually introduces us to\r\nthe most influential of theologians, and the greatest popular\r\nteacher; to a genius that cannot nod for many lines together;\r\nto a reasoner whose dialectic is more formidable, more keen\r\nand sifting, than that of Socrates or Aquinas; to a saint whose\r\nardent and genuine devotional feeling bursts up through the\r\nseverest argumentation; to a man whose kindliness and wit,\r\nuniversal sympathies and breadth of intelligence, lend piquancy\r\nand vitality to the most abstract dissertation.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","EDITOR'S PREFACE."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-10"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e032d2423aea36d904fb4b6f7ef1d2af330ee42bc145816fcd1a212a4ef4fb93","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_21_21","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_21_21","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_21_21\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_21_21\"><span class=\"label\">[21]</span></a> Erasmi <i>Epistolæ</i> xx. 2.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_21_21","text_sha256":"c45b9edd72709ea8fee70e909a0f04f93bcd5361fa583d2af0178f905886b0ad","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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