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• Perfection
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• Treatise Written to a Devout Man, by Walter Hilton (HTML at CCEL)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• After Sanctification: Growth in the life of Holiness, by T. M. Anderson (PDF at nnu.edu)
• Die Philosophie des Unvollendbar (in German; Leipzig: Veit und Comp., 1919), by Emanuel Lasker
  • page images in Germany
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Venetian Glass Nephew (New York: G. H. Doran Co., 1925), by Elinor Wylie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Initiation: The Perfecting of Man, by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)

• The Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra (second edition, 2000), ed. by Shih K'un Li and Frank G. French, trans. by Xuanzang and Lok To, contrib. by Tanxudashi (PDF at buddhanet.net)

• The Way of Perfection, by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by E. Allison Peers (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Way of Perfection, and Conceptions of Divine Love (London: C. Dolman, 1852), by Saint Teresa of Avila, trans. by John Dalton (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Greater Perfection: Conferences of Sister Miriam Teresa, Litt.B., of the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth, Convent Station, New Jersey (fourth printing, 1953), by Sister Miriam Teresa, ed. by Charles C. Demjanovich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Ladder of Perfection, by Walter Hilton (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Scale of Perfection, by Walter Hilton, ed. by Thomas H. Bestul (HTML at Rochester)

• The Christian's Manual: A Treatise on Christian Perfection, With Directions for Obtaining That State (New York: Carlton and Porter, ca. 1824), by Timothy Merritt, contrib. by John Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, by John Wesley (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Alfabeto Christiano (London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1861), by Juan de Valdés, ed. by Benjamin B. Wiffen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lectures to Professing Christians, by Charles G. Finney (text files at CCEL)
• Uniformity with God's Will, by Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, trans. by Thomas W. Tobin (multiple formats with commentary at CCEL)

• Challenging Children to Chastity: A Parental Guide (c1991), by Henry V. Sattler (HTML at EWTN)
• An Address Delivered to Married Women, by a Squire's Wife (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ca. 1872), by Victoria Welby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• On Exhortation to Chastity, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)
• The Coiled Serpent: A Philosophy of Conservation and Transmutation of Reproductive Energy (Los Angeles: DeVorss and Co., c1939), by C. J. Van Vliet (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Address Delivered by the Hon. Mrs. Welby to the Married Women of Newton, on the First Thursday in Lent, 1872 (printed for private circulation only; London: Metchim and Son, 1872), by Victoria Welby (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Appeal to Mothers, by Ellen G. White (HTML with commentary at ellenwhiteexposed.com)

• Comus, A Mask, by John Milton (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare (HTML with commentary at folger.edu)
• Measure for Measure (London: Oxford University Press, 1914), by William Shakespeare, ed. by W. J. Craig (HTML at Bartleby)
• Milton's Comus (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891), by John Milton, ed. by William Bell (Gutenberg text)

• On Modesty, by Tertullian, trans. by Sydney Thelwall (HTML with commentary at CCEL)

• Stories from the Faerie Queene, by Mary Macleod, contrib. by Edmund Spenser and John W. Hales, illust. by Arthur G. Walker (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Bibliographia Catholica Americana, a List of Works Written by Catholic Authors, Part I: From 1784 to 1820 Inclusive (no further parts published; New York: Catholic Publication House, 1872), by Joseph M. Finotti
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fears and Fascinations: Representing Catholicism in the American South (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Thomas F. Haddox (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Essays, Critical and Historical (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1907), by John Henry Newman
  • volume I: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume II: HTML at newmanreader.org
• A Briefe Historie of the Glorious Martyrdom of Twelve Reverend Priests, Father Edmund Campion and His Companions (London: Burns and Oates, 1908), by William Allen, ed. by John Hungerford Pollen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England, Addressed to the Brothers of the Oratory in the Summer of 1851 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908), by John Henry Newman (HTML at newmanreader.org)

• Riding Time Like A River: The Catholic Moral Tradition Since Vatican II (Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1993), ed. by William James O'Brien (PDF at Georgetown)
• A Brief Text-Book of Moral Philosophy (New York: Schwartz, Kirwin, and Fauss, c1895), by Charles Coppens (HTML at Notre Dame)
• A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries (with notes on American legislation by Martin; third edition, 2 volumes; New York et al.: Benziger Bros., 1908), by Thomas Slater, contrib. by Michael Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morality and Situation Ethics, by Dietrich Von Hildebrand and Alice Von Hildebrand (HTML at EWTN)
• Four-Square: or, The Cardinal Virtues, by Joseph Rickaby (HTML at Notre Dame)

• The Meaning of Life, and Other Essays (London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne, c1914), by Alban Goodier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence
  • multiple formats with commentary at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text
• Self-Knowledge and Self-Discipline (London et al.: Longmans, Green and co., 1909), by B. W. Maturin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Sinner's Guide (1883 translation), by Louis of Granada
  • Table of Contents: HTML at EWTN
  • Front matter and introduction: HTML at EWTN
  • Chapters 1-9: HTML at EWTN
  • Chapters 10-19: HTML at EWTN
  • Chapters 20-29: HTML at EWTN
  • Chapters 30-39: HTML at EWTN
  • Chapters 40-48: HTML at EWTN
• Christ in the Home (c1951), by Raoul Plus
  • part 1: HTML at EWTN
  • part 2: HTML at EWTN
  • part 3: HTML at EWTN
• Christ in the Classroom, by F. J. Sheed (HTML at EWTN)
• The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales (new and enlarged edition, 1910), by Jean-Pierre Camus (Gutenberg text)
• States of the Christian Life and Vocation, According to the Doctors and Theologians of the Church (New York: P. O'Shea, 1879), by Jean-Baptiste Berthier (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mons Perfectionis: Otherwyse Called in Englyssh The Hylle of Perfectyon (London: R. Pynson, 1497), by John Alcock (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Young Man's Guide: Counsels, Reflections, and Prayers for Catholic Young Men (based on Muff's "Hinaus ins Lebven"; New York et al.: Benziger Bros., c1910), by F. X. Lasance, contrib. by Coelestin Muff
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Christian Home (Chicago: Francisan Herald Press, 1938), by Celestine Strub (HTML at EWTN)

• Grace, Predestination, and the Salvific Will of God: New Answers to Old Questions, by William G. Most (HTML at catholicculture.org)

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