Edward Irving An Ecclesiastical And Literary Biography

Excerpt from Edward Irving: An Ecclesiastical and Literary Biography The history of this volume must be its justification. About two years ago I was requested by the editor of the Biographical Magazine, ' to write a sketch of Edward Irving - for whom I was known to entertain feelings of warm, yet unsectarian, admiration. Those feelings constituted at the time almost my only special qualification for such a task; - for Edward Irving died when I was but a child - and a vivid recollection of his person and bearing, with an inherited reverence for his qualities of mind and heart, could hardly be deemed a sufficient' substitute for the personal knowledge usually required of biographers. The pains I took to qualify myself for the slight performance required of me, - the pleasure I found in studying and setting-forth, however imperfectly, the lineaments of my father's last, best friend, - and the favour with which the attempt was received by some who had the most reason to bcfi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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