PREFACE. ERRATA-VOL. I. Page viii; Preface; on lines 7 and 10, from foot, for "my", read "his". Page 240, note; for "only one year", read " about two years". Page 248; on line 6 from top, for "that", read “than”. Page 344; on line 16 from foot, for "deumpartu", read "deum partu”. Page 437; on line 6 from top, for "day", read "days". Page 518; first verse of poetry; insert; at end of line 2d. The reader is asked to note these corrections. Other less important mistakes are not noticed:-hopless for hopeless; inerepedient for inexpedient; God'si for God's, &c. be a great e, are its achievements, and not its age. And though this method must give an appearance of diffuseness, to portions of the work, this, too, is natural. There are deeper currents, and wider reaches, here and there, in all streams, except canals. And a great soul, possessed with special aims, overflows a deeper fulness, upon certain portions of its life, that are specially consecrated to those aims. It will readily PREFACE. A WORD or two seems needful, as to the plan adopted in the pages that follow. When the work of preparing this Memoir, was first suggested to the Author, he shrunk from its difficulty; and only undertook it, upon the advice of those, whose judgment he is bound to respect. The delicacy of his own position, the difficulty of the task, the responsibility involved in it, the very large material, to be selected, condensed, arranged, all these have only grown upon his mind, with the progress of the book, which has been prepared under personal sorrows, and sickness, and the added disadvantages of haste, and a change of home. It was a work, especially demanding the Horatian rule, to be laid aside, at least, to the ninth month, that its birth might be after the full time. But this could not be. An order has been adopted, in the arrangement of materials for the Memoir, consulting, rather, principles, than time. It is hoped that this has not created any chronological confusion. If it has, it is suggested, that our common estimate of great lives, measures them by their doings, and not by their years. The mere miles, that measure distance, are lost, in the absorbing beauty of a landscape; and a life's milestones, if it be a great life, are its achievements, and not its age. And though this method must give an appearance of diffuseness, to portions of the work, this, too, is natural. There are deeper currents, and wider reaches, here and there, in all streams, except canals. And a great soul, possessed with special aims, overflows a deeper fulness, upon certain portions of its life, that are specially consecrated to those aims. It will readily |