ADAM CLARKE PORTRAYED -- Volume III (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

The opening sentence of the Advertisement of the preceding Volume of the present Memoir, stands thus; -- "While the biographer has to apologize for delay in the appearance of the second volume, he has to state, that it has not been because of any indifference as to its completion, but solely on account of other engagements over which he had no control; the enumeration of which -- though of some importance to himself -- is not at all calculated to interest the reader." He regrets to have to repeat this in reference to the present case; in repeating it, however, he has to state, that, though often laboring under severe indisposition, his time, in the interim, has not been Spent in listless inactivity -- having, within the last three years, traveled nearly twenty-seven thousand miles, for the purpose of preaching the gospel, attending public meetings, and making collections in aid of Christian Missions, the Education of Youth, embarrassed Chapels, &c., -- even at the hazard of life, by denying repose to a constitution unfit for the regular toil of an itinerant Minister. Add to this, accessions were constantly being made to the mass of biographical material already possessed, leading to further inquiry, and a wish -- by delaying the period of publication, to render the work as perfect as possible.Four volumes were at first contemplated; but the writer having ultimately decided on three, while the work was yet in progress, found it difficult, without injury to his subject, to compress hismaterials, so as to equalize the size of the volumes; and has, therefore, rather than not give the necessary finish to the Portrait, presented his readers with between one and two hundred pages more than in the preceding volumes, without additional cost.A studied care has been taken throughout, to trench as little as possible on the " LIFE," in 3 vols., 8vo., published " By a Member of his (Doctor Clarke's) Family;" a Life which the present biographer would regret as much to injure in the sale, as to write depreciatingly of its character. As the works abound with varied and distinct matter, they will be found to be somewhat necessary to complete, in the esteem of the reader, if not a full length portrait -- a varied and deeply interesting view of the entire MAN, in all his phases, feelings, opinions, principles, and actions.J. E. York, July 24, 1849.