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A MANUAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, from the First to the Twelfth Century
inclusive. By the Rev. E. S. FOULKES, M.A., fellow and Tutor of Jesus
College, Oxford.
The main plan of the work has been borrowed from Spanheim, a learned,
though certainly not unbiassed, writer of the seventeenth century; the
matter compiled from Spondanus and Spanheim, Mosheim and Fleury, Gieseler
and Döllinger, and others, who have been used too often to be specified,
unless when reference to them appeared desirable for the benefit of the
reader. Yet I believe I have never once trusted to them on a point
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that I have had before me has been to condense facts, without either
garbling or omitting any that should be noticed in a work like the present,
and to give a fair and impartial view of the whole state of the
case.--_Preface._
"An epitomist of Church History has a task of no ordinary greatness....
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are to be found in Church history."--_From the Scottish Ecclesiastical
Journal, May, 1852._
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