The Life of Rev. James Hervey
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Excerpt from The Life of Rev. James Hervey: Rector of Weston-Favel At last, by the peculiar agency of Providence, he was led to read Abbe de Pluche´s Nature Displayed, well known by the title Spectacle de la Nature. The intrinsic beauty of the piece allured his imagination and passions; and when he had made an entrance into the work, he read with incessant eagerness, improvement and pleasure. This work cherished his natural passion for knowledge. He added Dr. Derham´s Astro-Theology: this book assisted him in his first learned ideas of the starry heavens, and led him into views of the whole Newtonian system of philosophy. His conceptions were further aided by Ray´s Wisdom of God in Creation, and Dr. Derham´s Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, in his Physico-Theology. To these hooks he added Keil´s Anatomy, which he studied with such incessant attention, and perpetual reviews, as to make himself acquainted with the structure of the human body better than any man I ever knew. He went on to read Mr. Spence´s Five Dialogues on Pope´s Translation of Homer, which, he often assured me, gave him a greater insight into the nature and beauty of composition than any author he ever read. By the most accurate digestion of these authors in his understanding, and a continued contemplation of the book of nature, he advanced his mind, and polished his genius in the line of science." 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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