Excerpt from Santa Teresa: Being Some Account of Her Life and Times; Together With Some Pages From the History of the Last Great Reform in the Religious OrdersI do not know if here in England there are those who sign their letters, your Teresian friend, as I averred there were in Spain, when I sat down to write my preface to the first edition, thirteen years ago. But, if there be such, it seems to me the author of the book has done her part in the continuation of the pious memory, by setting forth the saint, Her Life and Miracles, as people say in Spain of saints, in her own way.Thirteen years ago and now, sitting alone to write, with the mild thaw wind after a long frost, singing amongst the naked trees, just as if some one had hung up an Eolian harp amongst the branches, but yet more sadly, for the [eolian harp I hear is in the mind, my point of View about the book is still the same as it was yesterday; for thirteen years is yesterday, although it seems a century, at least, in looking backwards; that is to say, when you look backwards without faith.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.