THE PROGRESS TO ITS REFORMATION -THE HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH POETRY, LANGUAGE, AND PROSE COMPOSITION, TO THE END OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. THIRD EDITION. BY SHARON TURNER, F.S.A. R. A.S.L. PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN AND GREEN, The corruption of Christianity inevitable It had to mix with existing habits and prejudices Its history, therefore, a scene of errors and virtues Its improvement necessarily gradual Intense feeling not alone a sufficient guide Hence the Christianity of our ancestors a motley system |