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Excerpt from Reminiscences, Vol. 2 of 2Edward irving died thirty-two years ago (decem ber in the first months of our adventurous settlement here; the memory of him is still clear and vivid with me, in all points,-that of his first and only visit to us in this House, in this room, just before leaving for Glasgow (october1 which was the last we saw of him, is still as fresh as if it had been yesterday - and he has a solemn, massive, sad and even pitiable, though not much blamable, or in heart ever blamable, and to me always dear and most friendly aspect, in those vacant Kingdoms of the Past. He was scornfully forgotten at the time of his death; having indeed sunk a good while before out of the notice of the more intelligent classes. There has since been and now is, in the new theological generation, a kind of revival of him, on rather weak and questionable terms, sentimental mainly, and grounded on no really correct know ledge or insight; which, however, seems to bespeak.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Reminiscences, Vol. 2 of 2Edward irving died thirty-two years ago (decem ber in the first months of our adventurous settlement here; the memory of him is still clear and vivid with me, in all points,-that of his first and only visit to us in this House, in this room, just before leaving for Glasgow (october1 which was the last we saw of him, is still as fresh as if it had been yesterday - and he has a solemn, massive, sad and even pitiable, though not much blamable, or in heart ever blamable, and to me always dear and most friendly aspect, in those vacant Kingdoms of the Past. He was scornfully forgotten at the time of his death; having indeed sunk a good while before out of the notice of the more intelligent classes. There has since been and now is, in the new theological generation, a kind of revival of him, on rather weak and questionable terms, sentimental mainly, and grounded on no really correct know ledge or insight; which, however, seems to bespeak.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Excerpt from Reminiscences, Vol. 2 of 2 As in the streets of Edinburgh, for example, on my first evening there On our journey thither he had been wearisome, far from entertaining, mostly silent, having indeed nothing to say. He stalked on gene rally some steps ahead, languidly whistling through his teeth some similitude of a wretched Irish tune, which I knew too well as that of a still more wretched doggrel song called the 'belfast Shoe maker, ' most melancholy to poor me, given up to my bits of reflections in the silence of the moors and hills. 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.

Excerpt from Reminiscences, Vol. 2 of 2As in the streets of Edinburgh, for example, on my first evening there On our journey thither he had been wearisome, far from entertaining, mostly silent, having indeed nothing to say. He stalked on gene rally some steps ahead, languidly whistling through his teeth some similitude of a wretched Irish tune, which I knew too well as that of a still more wretched doggrel song called the 'belfast Shoe maker,' most melancholy to poor me, given up to my bits of reflections in the silence of the moors and hills.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.