Samuel Miller
Published: 2019-01-28
Total Pages: 246
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Excerpt from Memoir of the Rev. John Rodgers, D.D: Late Pastor of the Wall Street and Brick Churches, in the City of New York A modern writer, who, to no ordinary talents, unites great eccentricity and great errors, recom mends the erectionand preservation of some me morial of every one that dies. The sentiment embraced m this plan 18 as false, as the plan itself is chimerical. The celebrated English moralist, Dr. Johnson, 15 undoubtedly correct, when he ob serves, that there are many characters which ought never to be drawn. There have been men, he adds, splendidly wicked, whose en dowments threw a brightness 011 their crimes, and whom scarcely any villany made perfectly detesta ble, because they never could be wholly divested of their excellencies; but such' have been, in all ages, the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the a1t of mu'rdering without pain. With re spect to many who are born and die in'our world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.