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. 1885 Excerpt: ... or to those whom he took notice of for their attendance at prayers, has greatly endeared his memory among the lower class of the people. Those of superior rank found in his company and conversation none of that sourness and formality observable in some devotees; for though exact in his attention to religious duties he ...
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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. 1885 Excerpt: ... or to those whom he took notice of for their attendance at prayers, has greatly endeared his memory among the lower class of the people. Those of superior rank found in his company and conversation none of that sourness and formality observable in some devotees; for though exact in his attention to religious duties he was remarkable for the ease, politeness, facetiousness, and urbanity of his manners. As a gentleman he was liberal without ostentation, possessing the happy talent which conferred favours or softened the disappointment of a refusal with a grace peculiar to himself, while he preserved the gravity and decency of the clerical character. The same ease and dignity accompanied the delivery of his compositions from the pulpit, where, if he touched upon controversy he went through it with less acrimony and more precision than is generally observed." If a panegyrist and friend wrote in this strain it was pronounced by some of his parishioners, "far from being too flattering." (Dr. H.-Ware's Hist. Coll. Ch., p. 155.) The Warden died on the 22 October, 1781, aged 82 years, and was buried in the nave of Chester Cathedral, leaving behind him the character, probably described by his son, of having been "a devout Christian, an able Preacher, and a sound Divine." His portrait, painted by Gainsborough, was engraved from the original in the possession of Samuel Peploe, Esq., of Garneston, in the county of Hereford, in January, 1831, for Dr. H.-Ware's History of the Collegiate Church, Manchestcr. He is robed in his black gown and cassock, and wears bands. He has on a large full bottomed powdered wig. The features are good, the face large and full, with much pleasing intelligence and solidity of character in the expression. Warden Peploe...
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2 vols. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered and blind embossed dark red cloth (spine faded and with small split frayed at lower edge of spine). Pp. xx + 100 (prelims a little tanned; no inscriptions).