Centuries of Meditations

Thomas Traherne

409 chapters · about 6 h

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1

An empty book is like an infant’s soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders. And since Love made you put it into my hands I will fill it with those Truths you love without knowing them: with those things which, if it be possible, shall shew my Love; to you in communicating most enriching Truths: to Truth in exalting her beauties in such a Soul.

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The words
The author's text, copied word for word.
Left out
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 14 places
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages

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