Monday, January 14, 2013

Efforts as an Editor


Saturday, 6.--I nearly finished the abridgement of Dr. Cave's Primitive Christianity, a book written with as much learning and as little judgment as any I remember to have read in my whole life; serving the ancient Christians just as Xenophon did Socrates; relating every weak thing they ever said or did.

Thursday, 11.--I prepared a short History of England for the use of the children; and on Friday and Saturday a short Roman History, as an introduction to the Latin historians. Monday, 15.--I read over Mr. Holmes's Latin Grammar and extracted from it what was needful to perfect our own. 

The Jounal of John Wesley

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