Enchiridion

Excerpt from Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine; Contemplative; Practical; Moral; Ethical; conomical; Political The first edition of the Enchiridion of Francis Quarles was published in 1641, and although its just popularity occasioned it to be several times reprinted before the close of the seventeenth century, these various editions have become almost as scarce as the original one. It is unquestionably the most valuable of his prose works, and in many respects deserving of a place in the present series of Old English Authors. The author of an article in the Retrospective Review (V. p. 181) very fairly estimates its merits. "It is," he says, "perhaps the best collection of maxims in the English language. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."