Life And Letter Of W J Birkbeck Ma F S A PDF Download

Excerpt from Life and Letter of W. J. Birkbeck, M.A., F. S. A: By His Wife My first acquaintance with W. J. Birkbeck was made more than thirty years ago, if not longer, and it was a friendship which lasted till his death in 1916. Of all that his friendship meant to me I find it difficult to speak. No one could have had a better or more devoted friend. There was no one whose opinion and advice were more to be depended upon, and that opinion and advice were always at my service. In any difficulty he was the first person I wished to consult. In all the years we acted together I never had to regret taking his advice or to question the wisdom and soundness of his opinion. He was a brilliant scholar, reading Greek for his amusement. His historical knowledge was as wide as it was reliable, and as a theologian none could question the accuracy of his learning. With all this he was endowed with a tact that enabled him to state a difficult matter in a way that disarmed opposition and suggested the possibility of an agreement where, in less competent and skilful hands, opposition and dissent would have been inevitable. There was one fact, however, which more than any other distinguished him from his contemporaries. It was his unrivalled knowledge of the East and the Orthodox Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.