Publication

1997-05-01 - Penguin Classics

Language

English

Word Count

92,000 words, Guess

Page Count

368 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivesimplestory00inch
  • ISBN-100140434739
  • ISBN-139780140434736
  • Goodreads1427362
  • LibraryThing87735
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First Sentence

Dorriforth, bred at St. Omer's in all the scholastic rigour of that college, was by education, and the solemn vows of his order, a Roman Catholic priest-but nicely discriminating between the philosophical and the superstitious part of that character, and adopting the former only, he possessed qualities not unworthy the first professors of Christianity-every virtue which it was his vocation to preach, it was his care to practise; nor was he in the class of those of the religious, who, by secluding themselves from the world, fly the merit they might have in reforming mankind.

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