Contents: Preface; Book I: That Virtue has to carry on War with Vice; Book II: What Things can be truly and justly called Good and Bad; Book III: The Miseries which the Good endure in this World; Book IV: On the Virtues of a Truly Christian Man. Translated from the Latin of Thomas à Kempis by Frederick Byrne. From his Preface: ‘’A Latin copy of this work, published in Paris in 1804, came into my hands. Having read it with pleasure and profit, I did it into English. Friends to whom I showed it advised me to have it published, in the belief and hope that it would do good.’’ From Wikipedia: "Thomas von Kempen, Latin Thomas a Kempis (* around 1380 in Kempen as Thomas Hemerken; † July 25, 1471 in the Agnetenberg monastery (“mountain monastery”) near Zwolle), was an Augustinian canon of the Windesheim congregation, mystic and spiritual writer of the 15th century."
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