Hard sentence

[CSHY]

I read of this torturous sentence in an E-book. Would you please rephrase it to make it easier to understand?

----If a man is thought-free, fancy-free, imagination-free, that which is not never for a long time appearing to be to him, unwise rules reformers cannot fatally interrupt him.----

----Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience" Major Themes, paragraph 3.

 

[5jj]

Please give us the title of the book and the name of the author whenever you quote something.

 

[CSHY]

Please give us the title of the book and the name of the author whenever you quote something.

I forgot where I had read of that, but I found it here on the internet.

 

[emsr2d2]

I read of this torturous sentence in an E-book.

I forgot where I had read of that,

You don't need "of" if you actually read the sentence in that book. If you read something else, but it was on the topic of that sentence, then you "read about the sentence".