A SELECTION FROM HIS WORKS, AS WELL IN PROSE AS IN VERSE. FORMING A SEQUEL TO "LIFE AND TIMES OF SIR THOMAS MORE." BY W. JOS. WALTER, LATE OF ST. EDMUND'S COLLEGE, A man, that Fortune's buffets and rewards Hath ta'en with equal thanks. SHAKSPEARE. BALTIMORE: PUBLISHED BY FIELDING LUCAS. JR. [Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1841, by W. Jos. WALTER, in the Clerk's office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.] PHILADELPHIA: BARRINGTON AND HASWELL, PRINTERS. PREFACE. THE celebrated Alban Butler, in a letter to a friend, makes the following observation: "I cannot wonder that Dean Swift should say, that the opinion of Sir Thomas More alone would have more weight with him, in many cases, than that of a whole assembly of interested timeservers. Such men God always raises up by his grace; men hidden in God to the world, united to him by perfect purity of heart, and eminently endowed with a genuine spirit of humility, meekness, charity, and all other virtues : truly terrestrial angels." In presenting to the reader the following Selection from the "opinions" of this great and good man, a pledge has been redeemed which was given in the "Life and Times of Sir Thomas More." Indeed, without some acquaintance with the writings of the worthy Chancellor, no adequate idea could be formed of his genius and character. |