Letters to Persons in the World
Translated by Henry Benedict Mackey
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The opening
LETTER I. To a Young Lady.
LETTERS TO YOU^G LADIES
To a Young Lady.
I pray God to bless your heart, my dear daughter, and I say to you these words according to my promise.
You should, every morning, before all things, pray God to give you the true sweetness of spirit he requires in souls which serve him, and resolve to exercise yourself well in that virtue, particularly towards the two persons to whom you are most bound.
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About this edition
- The words
- Henry Benedict Mackey's English translation, copied word for word.
- Left out
- Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 7 places
- Other material that isn't the author's
- A library stamp and the series half-title (“LIBRARY OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES.”) (6 blocks)
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
- A speck on a blank page
- Closing line “The End.”
- The library's catalogue label on the end page (“% 2179 .F.7 L5713 1890”) (6 blocks)
- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 7 places
- Specks at the head of the first page of letters (“% //”)
- The printed table of contents (the app makes its own), in 2 places
- Specks the OCR read beside a heading