Discourses (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The contents of the following volume divide themselves into two sections of unequal size. The first, and the smallest of these, consisting of the three first papers, is from the pen of the Author; the last contains mere reports of lectures delivered by him. All have been in print before, but he first gathered them together and put them in an accessible form to the public a year or two °ago, When the present volume was printed; and it is believed that to almost all but his immediate friends its contents are entirely new. Whether he would have expended health and leisure, had he possessed them, in recasting addresses Which in their actual form must retain something of the unsuitableness of any utterance designed for the eat, but meeting the eye, can never be decided now; what is certain is, that he had not the opportunity of doing so. The duties of a college course, and the frequent interruptions of bad health, delayed the. Publication of the work for several years, deferring even the few words of preface which he hoped to write, of which his death, on the 12th of January, 1866, has deprived us for ever.

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