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Excerpt from The Study of Church History Recommended: Being the Terminal Divinity Lecture, Delivered in Bishop Cosins's Library, April XV, MDCCCXXXIV, Before the Right Rev. The Dean, the Chapter, and the University of Durham And, on this topic, let me cite the simple words of one whom I cannot pass unremembered to-day. If he says, if the historian tells us the good deeds of the good, we are excited to imitate them; if the bad deeds of the bad, we are taught at once to avoid them, and to turn to such deeds as are really good and worthy of the God whom we serve. These are the simple words of the great father of English Church History, the venerable Bede, whose honoured tomb lies near us, and to whom it were a criminal want of reverence for piety and learning, not to allude in speaking of such a subject here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.