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Project Gutenberg's Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, by John Donne This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel Author: John Donne Release Date: December 8, 2007 [EBook #23772] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS *** Produced by Stacy Brown, John Hagerson, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net JOHN DONNE DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS _Together with_ DEATH'S DUEL ANN ARBOR PAPERBACKS _The University of Michigan Press_ First edition as an ANN ARBOR PAPERBACK 1959 Published in the United States of America by the University of Michigan and simultaneously in Toronto, Canada, by Ambassador Books, Ltd. Manufactured in the United States of America CONTENTS THE LIFE OF DR. JOHN DONNE v DEVOTIONS 1 DEATH'S DUEL 161 _THE LIFE OF DR. JOHN DONNE_ (_Taken from the life by Izaak Walton_). Master John Donne was born in London, in the year 1573, of good and virtuous parents: and, though his own learning and other multiplied merits may justly appear sufficient to dignify both himself and his posterity, yet the reader may be pleased to know that his father was masculinely and lineally descended from a very ancient family in Wales, where many of his name now live, that deserve and have great reputation in that country. By his mother he was descended of the family of the famous and learned Sir Thomas More, sometime Lord Chancellor of England: as also, from that worthy and laborious Judge Rastall, who left posterity the vast Statutes of the Law of this nation most exactly abridged. He had his first breeding in his father's house, where a private tutor had the care of him, until the tenth year of his age; and, in his eleventh year, was sent to the University of Oxford, having at that time a good command both of the French and Latin tongue. This, and some other of his remarkable abilities, made one then give this censure of him: That this age had brought forth anothe
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