The Spirit of Life; Or, Scripture Testimony to the Holy Ghost (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ... of Fulke Fltzwarine--17. Popular Cycle or Robin Hood Ballads--1s. Conquest of Ireland by the Anglo-Normans--19. Old English Political Songs--20. Dunbar, the Scottish Poet. WRIGHT (Thomas) Biographia Britannica Literaria, or Biography of Literary Characters of Great Britain and Ireland. AngloSaxon Period.. Thick 8vo, cloth. 6s (original price 12-) '., The Anglo-Norman Period. Thick 8vo, cloth, 6s (original price 12s) Published under the superintendence of the Council of the Royal Society of Literature. There is no work in the English Language which gives the reader such a comprehensive and connected History of the Literature of these periods. WRIGHT (Thomas) Wanderings of an Antiquary, chiefly.upon the Traces of the Romans in Britain, many illustrations, post 8vo1 cloth. 4s 6d (original price 8s 6d) WRIGHTS (Thomas) Saint Patrick's Purgatory, an Essay on the Legends of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, current during the Middle Ages. Post 8vo, cloth. 6s "It must be observed that this is not a mere account of St. Patrick's Purgatory, but a complete history of the legends and superstitions relating to the subject, from the earliest times, rescued from old MSS. as well aa from old printed books. Moreover, it embraces a singular chapter of literary history omitted-by Warton and all former writers with whom we are acquainted: and we think we may add, that it forms the best introduction to Dante that has yet been published."--Literary Gazette., .., ., V u "This appears to bea curious and even amusing book on the singular subject of Purgatory, in which the idle and fearful dreams of superstition are shown to be first narrated as tales, and then applied as means of deducin the'm6ral character' of the age in which they prevailed."--Spectato...