The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander, D.D, Vol. 1

Download or read book The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander, D.D, Vol. 1 written by Henry Carrington Alexander and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life of Joseph Addison Alexander, D.D, Vol. 1: Professor in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jersey I shall make no apology for writing the life OF joseph addison alexander. If the facts recorded in these volumes be not a sufficient justification, there could be no other. Why the duty has been devolved on his nephew rather than upon some one else, is a question which need not be discussed here. It is enough to say that the work was undertaken not at his own instance but in compliance with the wishes of the surviving mem bers of the family. The task, though a grateful, has been an arduous one. The thing aimed at has been not so much any mere lite rary excellence as an array of competent and incontro vertible testimony. The career of a quiet student affords small material in the way of biographic incident, but it is hoped that the remarkable private and domestic character, and personal traits and idiosyncrasies, of the subject of these memoirs, have not been lost sight of in the attempt to per tray his life as a recluse scholar, as a teacher, as a minister of the Word, and as an author. 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.