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. 1906 Excerpt: ...in 1798, having resigned the Jacksonian chair in 1792. He divided his time between Cambridge and Carlisle, and pushed strongly the Evangelical cause at both. When he preached at Carlisle the cathedral was so crowded that "you might walk on the heads of the people." Under him Queens' became "a nursery of Evangelical ...
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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. 1906 Excerpt: ...in 1798, having resigned the Jacksonian chair in 1792. He divided his time between Cambridge and Carlisle, and pushed strongly the Evangelical cause at both. When he preached at Carlisle the cathedral was so crowded that "you might walk on the heads of the people." Under him Queens' became "a nursery of Evangelical neophytes," and he made no secret of using his immense influence to secure the election of Evangelical fellows and in other ways promoting the cause. He was in the zenith of his fame when the eighteenth century ended, and remained influential during the first twenty years of the nineteenth. He thus formed a link between the first and second generations of Evangelicalism. All his writings before 1800 were on mathematical and philosophical subjects, and therefore do not come within the limits of this volume. It was his devotion to the memory of his dead brother, to whom he owed everything in life, that stirred him up to write in defence of the History of the Church of Christ against Dr. Haweis, and also to continue, to revise, and greatly improve his brother's part in that history. Like many of the Evangelicals, he was full of kindliness, and indeed boisterous merriment, an admirable talker, and in that and in other respects not unlike Dr. Johnson. But though he found in his niece, Mary Milner, an excellent biographer, she was not a Boswell to immortalise his conversational powers, which we have therefore to take on trust. He was like Dr. Johnson also in his huge frame and in the robustness and manliness of his mind. With these he combined a curious mixture of shyness and nervousness, which may probably account for his constitutional indolence, for his not writing more, and indeed not doing more outside his own special spheres i...
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