Графични страници
PDF файл
ePub

usually the readiest to accord the right of private judgment. Nor, with your large and catholic affinities, will you like the book the less because it brings together so many of the great and good from various sections of the Church of Christ.

With much respect and affection, I have the honour to remain,

My Lord,

Your Lordship's faithful servant,

JAMES HAMILTON.

48 EUSTON Square, December 1, 1858.

PREFACE.

TAKE it all in all, no land can boast of such a Christian Authorship as England; but many of the greatest thinkers and most eloquent writers are locked up in ponderous or costly folios, inaccessible to ordinary readers. In the following pages, by means of characteristic specimens, the attempt is made to convey to persons of limited leisure a notion of the way in which the Masters in our Israel discoursed on the most momentous subjects; and it is hoped that the connecting notices, biographical and historical, and which extend to more than a third of the entire work, may promote the intelligent perusal and enjoyment of the accompanying extracts, or that they may even induce a few readers to acquaint themselves with the great originals.

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]
« ПредишнаНапред »