CHARLES KINGSLEY: HIS LETTERS AND MEMORIES OF HIS LIFE. EDITED BY HIS WIFE. "Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please." SPENSER'S "FAERIE QUEEN." IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. EIGHTH ABRIDGED EDITION. WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS. LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., I, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 1880. Dedicated TO THE BELOVED MEMORY OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN WHO LOVED GOD AND TRUTH ABOVE ALL THINGS. A MAN OF UNTARNISHED HONOUR LOYAL AND CHIVALROUS-GENTLE AND STRONG MODEST AND HUMBLE-TENDER AND TRUE PITIFUL TO THE WEAK-YEARNING AFTER THE ERRING STERN TO ALL FORMS OF WRONG AND OPPRESSION, YET MOST STERN TOWARDS HIMSELF WHO BEING ANGRY, YET SINNED NOT. WHOSE HIGHEST VIRTUES WERE KNOWN ONLY TO HIS WIFE, HIS CHILDREN, HIS SERVANTS, AND THE POOR. WHO LIVED IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD HERE, AND PASSING THROUGH THE GRAVE AND GATE OF DEATH NOW LIVETH UNTO GOD FOR EVERMORE. ს VOL. I. |
