Excerpt from The Germans, Vol. 2: What They Covet Have you not sometimes been struck with the rather tame conclusion of the Ten Commandments, as they appear in our English Bible and Prayer Book 2 After the prohibition of such things as we all admit to be very terrible sins, murder, adultery, theft, perjury, we are told that we must not covet as if that were the last and most heinous sin of all. Surely the word covet must have changed its meaning during the last four hundred years; for if not, it is clear that most people ...
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Excerpt from The Germans, Vol. 2: What They Covet Have you not sometimes been struck with the rather tame conclusion of the Ten Commandments, as they appear in our English Bible and Prayer Book 2 After the prohibition of such things as we all admit to be very terrible sins, murder, adultery, theft, perjury, we are told that we must not covet as if that were the last and most heinous sin of all. Surely the word covet must have changed its meaning during the last four hundred years; for if not, it is clear that most people are terribly wicked sinners at every hour of their lives. What small schoolboy does not covet the jam rolls in the pastrycook's window, what nursemaid does not covet the hats displayed by the milliner? My own deeply corrupt nature is illustrated by my life-long covetousness of my neighbour's flower-garden, or, in my more scarlet-sinful moods, of his trout-stream. Yet I can hardly believe that I shall be brought into judgement for what seem to me little more than innocent dreams about rose-trees and three-pound fish. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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