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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR

OF

THE AUTHOR.

THE life and studies of a country clergyman, particularly in a retired situation, will seldom furnish materials for a publication suited to what is called the " literary taste" of the times. Yet it is not always among the great and wealthy, in the palace or populous city, that genius and merit are to be found. The most respectable characters are often discovered to be those, who least attract the notice of mankind; although to render the lives of such men interesting to a fastidious public, would require the extensive talents of a Johnson, or the minute fidelity of a Boswell. It is therefore with considerable diffidence that the writer of the present memoir is induced to lay before the public an account of the life, character, studies, correspondence, writings, and modes of thinking, of a man who spent a long and laborious life in the pastoral charge of a numerous congregation, in a remote pa

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