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The works of Robert Hall. With a brief memoir of his life, by dr. Gregory
The works of Robert Hall With a brief memoir of his life by dr Gregory Author:Robert Hall Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: I I THE SENTIMENTS PROPER TO THE PRESENT CRISIS: A SERMON, PREACHED AT BRIDGE STREET, BRISTOL, October 19, 1903; BEING THE DAY APPOINTED FOB A ... more »GENERAL FAST. Uter esset, non uter imperaret Cicero. ADVERTISEMENT. Some apology is due to the public for this discourse appearing so long after it was preached. The fact is, the writer was engaged on an exchange of services for a month with his highly esteemed friend, the Rev. Mr. Lowell, of Bristol, author of an excellent volume of Sermons on Practical Subjects, at the time it was delivered, and had no opportunity of writing it till he returned. As it touches entirely on permanent topics, except what relates to the threatened invasion, still impending over us, he knows not but it may be as suitable now as if it had appeared earlier. As it is, he commits it to the candour of the public. He has only to add, that the allusion to the effects of the tragic muse should have been marked as a quotation, though the author knows not with certainty to whom to ascribe it. He believes it fell from the elegant pen of an illustrious female, Mrs. More. Page 182. Shelford, Nov. 30, 1803. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. In this edition, the author has corrected those errors of the press, which in the former were very considerable. The Monthly Reviewers have founded a criticism entirely on one of them. The author had remarked, that infidelity was bred in the stagnant marshes of corrupted christianity. The printer having omitted the word corrupted, the reviewers remark that they never found in their map of christianity any stagnant marshes. Having mentioned the Monthly Reviewers, he must be permitted to notice a most singular error into which they have been betrayed ; that of supposing the author had confounded Arist...« less