History of Letter-Writing, from the Earliest Period to the Fifth Century (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from History of Letter-Writing, From the Earliest Period to the Fifth Century

To the letters of the wisest and most accomplished heathens I have added pretty copious specimens from the fathers of the evangelical church, of the fourth and fifth centuries; in whose epistolary intercourse there will he found matter of the gravest import, and the Fullest exhibition of a class _of men, whose habits of thought and expression were framed after a model mtirelydifl'erent from that which furnished the standard 0! Heathen morality: and the present is, perhaps, a junoture in which that portion of this work will be found especially interesting.

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