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Compendium of the art of always rejoicing

PREFACE. The following treatise is a compendium of the admirable work of F. Alphonsus de Sarasa, of the Society of, Jesus. It was so much esteemed in Germany that the great Leibnitz, according to the testimony of Koeler, considered it to be a perfect model of composition and sound morality. Weigel, who translated it from the Latin into German, styles it 'an incomparable and golden book. Alphonsus de Sarasa was bom of Spanish parentage in Flanders, a.d. 1618. He entered the Society of Jesus at the early age of fifteen. After his noviceship and usual course of studies, he taught humanities for seven years, was a ripe scholar, profound philosopher, and great preacher, listened to with fnarked attention at Bmssels, Ghent, and Anvers. But his chief title to renown is his work on the Art of always Rejoicing. The effort of composing so noble a production, requiring such a gompass of thought and imagination, together with his labours in teaching and preaching, and his fervent piety, consumed his feeble frame, and he died of a pleurisy and decline at the age of forty-eight. The greater work in fifteen treatises, and the compendium drawn up by himself and published with it, were printed by M

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