This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...to press; and not, as has been erroneously stated, a " review " of the work, after it had been printed. Mr. Hall, at first startled with this proposal, quickly announced it to his authorised biographer, with a note of " disapprobation," and as quickly rejected the proposal on the ground of a prior engagement. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...to press; and not, as has been erroneously stated, a " review " of the work, after it had been printed. Mr. Hall, at first startled with this proposal, quickly announced it to his authorised biographer, with a note of " disapprobation," and as quickly rejected the proposal on the ground of a prior engagement. The writer, though decidedly unwilling to commit his manuscripts to other hands, whose exclusive competence he did not very well comprehend, earnestly entreated Mr. Hall's acceptance of his papers, to be disposed of in any way he might prefer. This he said he could not in equity consent to, and recommended the author by all means to proceed with his publication. Whatever might be his abrupt " disapprobation " on the first announcement, and before he had seen a single line of the work, the favourable opinion he afterwards condescended to express, is too well known to need any repetition. When a second edition of the work was demanded, his corrections were again solicited; and his reply was, he did not recollect a paragraph that he wished to see altered. These circumstances would not have been detailed, but for the garbled statements which have already appeared in print, for the unworthy purpose, as it would seem, of throwing discredit on the author and his performance, by insinuating, what is not true, that Mr. Hall was unfriendly to the undertaking. Mr. Hall had had a long-standing intimacy with Mr. Phillips, pastor of the Independent congregation at Clap-ham, to whose superintendence he committed some of his earlier publications. In the month of June Mr. Phillips visited Leicester, delivered an interesting discourse on the sabbath morning, and spent several days very happily with his friend, by whom he was baptised previously to his return...
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