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Page v
... preparing some of those Discourses for the press , it might be in my power to be still of some use in the world . Encouraged by this idea , I went on to revise and correct one Sermon after another , often making alterations and ...
... preparing some of those Discourses for the press , it might be in my power to be still of some use in the world . Encouraged by this idea , I went on to revise and correct one Sermon after another , often making alterations and ...
Page xi
... preparation for the pulpit , he began to think seriously on a plan for teaching to others that art , which had contri- buted so much to the establishment of his own fame . With this view , he communicated to his friends a scheme of Lec ...
... preparation for the pulpit , he began to think seriously on a plan for teaching to others that art , which had contri- buted so much to the establishment of his own fame . With this view , he communicated to his friends a scheme of Lec ...
Page xiii
... prepared for the pulpit . The re- mainder , modesty led him to think unfit for the press , and influenced by an excusable solicitude for his reputation , he left behind him an explicit injunction that his numerous manuscripts should be ...
... prepared for the pulpit . The re- mainder , modesty led him to think unfit for the press , and influenced by an excusable solicitude for his reputation , he left behind him an explicit injunction that his numerous manuscripts should be ...
Page xv
... advice to the afflicted , who , from different quarters of the kingdom , solicited his correspondence . His last summer was devoted to the preparation of this volume of Sermons ; and , in the course of it , DR . HUGH BLAIR . XV.
... advice to the afflicted , who , from different quarters of the kingdom , solicited his correspondence . His last summer was devoted to the preparation of this volume of Sermons ; and , in the course of it , DR . HUGH BLAIR . XV.
Page xix
... preparing the " materials of a new claim to the gratitude and admiration of " posterity . In this active state of preparation , with the " lamp of life still clear and bright , he was found by the " Great Lord of All when he came to say ...
... preparing the " materials of a new claim to the gratitude and admiration of " posterity . In this active state of preparation , with the " lamp of life still clear and bright , he was found by the " Great Lord of All when he came to say ...
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