Five sermons by the Cambridge mathematician and preacher who was Isaac Newton’s teacher. Barrow takes on foolish talking and jesting, rash and vain swearing, evil-speaking in general and the folly of slander, analysing each sin of the tongue with closely reasoned, generous prose. Henry Morley’s introduction sketches his life.
Classic English pulpit oratory on a vice that never goes out of date. Download the free EPUB.