In the Life of Matthew Hale
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Excerpt from In the Life of Matthew Hale: Exhibiting His Moral and Religious Character No part of history is more instructive and delighting than the lives of great and worthy men: the shortness of them invites many readers; and there are such little and yet remarkable passages in them, too inconsiderable to be put in a general history of the age in which they lived, that all people are very desirous to know them. This short history will contain in it as great a character, as perhaps can be given of any in this age, since there are few instances of more knowledge and greater virtues meeting in one person. I was upon one account, besides many more, unfit to undertake it, because I was not at all known to him; so I can say nothing from my own observation. But I do not know whether this may not qualify me to write more impartially, though perhaps more defectively; for the knowledge of extraordinary persons does most commonly bias those who were much wrought on by the tenderness of their friendship for them, to raise their style a little too high when they write concerning them. I confess I knew him as much as the looking often upon him could amount to. The last year of his being in London, he came always on Sundays, when he could go abroad, to the chapel of the Rolls, where I then preached. In my life I never saw so much gravity, tempered with that sweetness, and set off with so much vivacity, as appeared in his looks and behaviour, which disposed me to a veneration for him, which I never had for any with whom I was not acquainted. 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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