Sermons preached to Joshua Abbot; at York, September 3, 1792: preparatory to the sixth, the day appointed for his execution: when his pardon was... (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"THE Author is inclined to think, that the truly affecting occasion on which the following discourse was delivered, and the tender feelings of the bearers thereby excited, more than any peculiar excellence in the Sermon, caused them to request its publication: But a hope, that the great, the plain and important truths it contains, may be the means of doing good, together with a disposition to oblige them, prevails with him to comply with it.The address at the close, in particular, he is sensible may expose him to the censure of the critic; but it claims the candor of the public, as it was necessarily spoken without much premeditation or penning of the sentiments, the preacher expecting to speak to the prisoner under a sentence of death,(it being the design of the meeting) 'till the news of the pardon arrived about half an hour before the meeting: For the same reason the reader is desired to excuse it, if it is not exactly recollected as it was spoken: The substance, it is supposed, is here given to the public." This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.