Excerpt from Hymns From the East: Being Centos and Suggestions From the Service BooksThis fourth series of Hymns from the Office Books of The Holy Eastern Church, differs from the preceding three in this, that the hymns are less translations or renderings, and more centos and suggestions.One cannot continue long to interest him self in any work, and receive from time to time the observations and criticisms of his fellows, without, if he have his eyes and mind open to receive impressions, feeling himself impelled to alter his methods in some particular or other.In previous volumes the author has been careful to give, for the most part, carefully executed - that is to say, truthfully rendered translations from the originals. Work of that kind is useful, and absolutely necessary for certain purposes, but, unless for the h'ymnologist, or for the liturgiologist, it is far from being attractive. To be true.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.