Excerpt from Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Barrister-at-Law, F. S. A, Vol. 2 of 2 How different this from John Woolman's J ournal* I have been reading at the same time. A perfect gem! His Is a sch'o'ne Seele (beautiful soul). An illiterate tailor, he writes in a style Of the most exquisite purity-and grace. His moral qualities are transferred to his writings. Had he not been so very humble he would have written a still better book, for, fearing to indulge in vanity, he conceals the ...
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Excerpt from Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, Barrister-at-Law, F. S. A, Vol. 2 of 2 How different this from John Woolman's J ournal* I have been reading at the same time. A perfect gem! His Is a sch'o'ne Seele (beautiful soul). An illiterate tailor, he writes in a style Of the most exquisite purity-and grace. His moral qualities are transferred to his writings. Had he not been so very humble he would have written a still better book, for, fearing to indulge in vanity, he conceals the events in which he was a great actor. His religion is love. His whole exist ence and all his passions were love If one could venture to impute to his creed, and not to his personal character, the de lightful frame of mind which he exhibited, one could not hesi tate to be a convert. His Christianity is most inviting, February 3d. Made a long-deferred call on Mr. Irving, with whom I was very much pleased. He received me with flatter ing cordiality, and introduced me to his wife, a plain but very agreeable woman. Irving is learning German, which will be an occasion of acquaintance between us, as I can be Of use to him. We had an agreeable chat his free, bold tone, the reck lessness with which he talks, both of men and things, renders his company piquant. He spoke Of the Scottish character as to be found only in the peasantry, not in the literati. Jeffrey and the Edinburgh critics do not represent the people neither, I Observed, do Hume, Adam Smith, &c. I adverted to some of the criticisms on his sermons. He seemed well acquainted with them, but not much to regard them. He said that Cole; ridge had given him a new idea Of German metaphysics, which he meant to study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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