Excerpt from The Household of Sir Thomas More<br><br>NO reader of Margaret Roper will proceed far without recognising that the language is not that of the time of Henry VIII., and that the ideas transcend the sphere of even a Lord Chancellor's daughter of that age. The failure is rather in phrases than in Single words, such collocations as living conscious ness, dreamless sleep, disembodied spirit, would scarcely have occurred to Mistress Roper or her con temporaries while the expressions which they would.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.