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The Family Pen; Memorials Biographical and Literary, of the Taylor Family of Ongar
The Family Pen Memorials Biographical and Literary of the Taylor Family of Ongar Author:Isaac Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1867 Original Publisher: Jackson, Walford and Hodder Subjects: Reference / Genealogy Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free tr... more »ial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE LATE ISAAC TAYLOR. BY THE EDITOR. The foregoing essay, which appeared in Good Words at the close of the year 1864, was almost the last literary effort of one who for fifty years had held, in his well- practised hand, that Family Pen of which he writes. In the spring of the year 1865, he was attacked by a violent access of the chronic bronchitis which had long troubled him, and this malady was soon complicated by dropsical symptoms. For three months he endured great sufferings with characteristic fortitude and Christian patience, till at last the strong frame was shattered, and, on the 28th of June, he passed away to his well-earned rest . Bom at Lavenham, on the I7th of August, 1787, just before the breaking out of the great French Revolution, he would in a few weeks have completed his seventy-eighth year. This is not the place for any lengthened Memoir, or for any estimate of the services which his words of thoughtful wisdom have rendered to the cause of Christian truth. Some such memorial of his literary labours, based upon his own letters, and accompanied by selections from MSS. which he has left behind, is now in preparation. It has been thought, however, that these volumes would be incomplete if they did not contain some briefest record of the literary life of one who grasped the Family Pen with such firm fingers, and wielded it to so good effect. The narrative of his early life, and the account of the surroundings of his youthful years, will be found, to a great extent, detailed by himself, incidentally, in t...« less