Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Introduction to a Devout Life: From the French of St. Francis De Sales, Bishop and Prince of Geneva; To Which Is Prefixed an Abstract of His Life
That the whole might be more profitable and agree able, I have revised and connected the different parts, adding several advices and instructions which appeared suited to my Intention. Numberless occupations left me little leisure for the accomplishment of my design hence you will find in this treatise neither order nor method, but merely a collection of good admonitions which I have delivered in plain and intelligible words. Without bestowing so much as a thought on the orna ments of language, having business of more couse' quence to attend to.
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