...SERMONS. BY THE REV. RICHARD RYMER. KaX-vv 5taKm<u? 'Irjtrov Kpiffrou.—ST. PAI-L. • • I n A v K often thought that there has rarely passed a life,...which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful."—DR. SAMUEL JOHXSOX. LONDON: PUBLISHED BV SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONERS'-HALL COURT ;...

...ourselves, we thought there was a propriety in placing on the title page the words of Dr. Johnson, ' I have often thought that there has rarely passed...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.' The subject of this narrative seems to have been a pious and laborious minister of the gospel in connexion...

...ourselves, we thought there was a propriety in placing on the title page the words of Dr. Johnson, ' I have often thought that there has rarely passed...judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.' The subject of this narrative seems to have been a pious and laborious minister of the gospel in connexion...

...descend below the consultation of senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes uf conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judiciousvand faithful narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man has, in the mighty mass...

...adapted to persons of all grades of intellect. Dr Johnson somewhere observes, that ' there has perhaps rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ;' and a still higher authority has a remark to this effect— that the moral history of a beggar,...

...descend below the consultation of senates, the motions of armies, and the schemes of conspirators. I have often thought that there has rarely passed...narrative would not be useful. For, not only every man iae, in the mighty mass of the world, great num>ers in the same condition with himself, to whom iis...

...composed with more art, but dictated by less sincerity. It has been well observed by Doctor Johnson, " that there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and authentic narrative would not be useful ; " and perhaps this will not be thought the exception. And...

...altogether judicious, it is at least authentic, and I am willing to believe, that Dr. Johnson's remark, that " there has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and authentic VI PREFACE. narrative would not be useful," may be favourably applied to the following pages,...

...we are confirmed by the strongly expressed opinions of that giant thinker, Dr. Johnson, who says : " I have often thought that there has rarely passed...of immediate and apparent use ; but there is such a uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and...

...more competent to write his own life, provided he is a literary man, than another is to do it for him. There has rarely passed a life, of which a judicious and faithful Narrative would not be useful." 1)в. JOHNSON. ILLUSTRATED WITH COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVINGS. PROVIDENCE GROVE, NEAR SHREWSBURY: PRINTED...