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Excerpt from The Christian Remembrancer, Vol. 2: Monthly Magazine and Review; July December, 1841 This is in many respects a remarkable book. It is the genuine product of its author's mind, and exhibits everywhere that unity and distinctness of character which such true parentage can alone bestow. The reader continually feels that he is conversing with a real man; that a living voice is sounding in his ears that he has not wandered into the loose and barren sands of repeated sentiments, which the winds of chance, or the yet drier breath of book-making, have heaped together, but that he is holding converse with a deep and powerful spirit and that the stores of gathered wisdom which are opened to him, (and they are ample, ) have been brought together, and are now held in one, by its living and pervading power. So wide, indeed, is the range of expositors from whom Mr. Trench has culled, that the volume may be taken as an historical collection of comments upon the Parables of our Lord by the fathers and best later writers in all languages. Such the unpretending title of Notes might lead us to expect to find it. But this is by no means the principal merit of the book. It is as far removed in character as possible from that driest gathering of dry bones, a synopsis critico rum; than which, however needful it may be for enriching other soils, there cannot, we hold, be by itself a more utterly arid material. There is exhibited throughout this volume that power of reproduction which can knit together old fragments into the unity and freshness of novelty, without losing the strength and substance of antiquity. The cause of this excellence may he found in the history of the work; the references and quotations have not, as is too often the case, been gathered from indexes and secondhand sources, to make a show of authority for opinions, or of reading for their author, but are the real treasures of a well-furnished mind. They are, Mr. Trench tells us, ' in the main of my own collecting. I was struck, on refer ring to the works bearing on the subject, with the large amount of merely traditional materials which they contained -the same quota tions from the fathers of the church; the same illustrations from classical authors the same passages from modern works on the East; and this while richest mines, especially in the instance of the first. 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 The Christian Remembrancer, Vol. 2: A Monthly Magazine and Review; July December We have now completed the first year of our New Series, and have the satisfaction of believing that many of the ends which we proposed to ourselves are in the way of being successfully attained. Such has been the increase in our circulation, and such the amount of contributions which we continually receive, that we have resolved on making an increase in the quantity of matter presented to our readers. This will be attended with the twofold advantage of enabling us to offer a greater variety of articles to their notice, and of allowing greater space and scope to any one article. It may often be inconvenient to the writer to undertake two papers on a subject, on which, nevertheless, he may have more to say than he can find room for in one, if much restricted in space: to say nothing of the frequent inconvenience of breaking the continuity of a disquisition. This increase in our dimensions will necessarily involve some increase in our price, which, after this month, will be 2s. 6 d.instead of Is. 6 d.per number. In our Prospectus of last year we gave some intimation of the principles on which we meant to act. Theology is, of course, the staple material of our magazine; but we have not confined, nor do we mean to confine, ourselves thereto. Little as we value mere literature - the mere epicurean range of intellectual delights - nay, baleful as we think it to those who have no other pursuit, - destructive, in such case, as we hold it of all earnest and true-hearted tendencies, - we are keenly alive to its merit and use as an accompaniment to a mans particular vocation; whether as a refreshment after the routine of worldly business; or a temporary diversion from one engrossing study. We have an apostles injunction to fill our minds with whatsoever things are true, honest, pure, lovely, and of good report; and to the earnest Christian every manifestation, however subordinate, of refinement, of grace, and of beauty, is, in its place, both significant and profitable. 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.
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