THE

VILLAGE BLACKSMITH;

OR,

Piety and Usefulness Exemplified

IN A

MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL HICK,

LATE OF MICKLEFIELD, YORKSHIRE.

BY JAMES EVERETT.

FROM THE SEVENTH LONDON EDITION.

New-York:

PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PHILLIPS,

200 MULBERRY-STREET.

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PUBLIC LIBRARY
281162

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
1903

"That not only the maxims, but the grounds of a pure mo. rality, the mere fragments of which the 'lofty grave tragedians taught in chorus or iambic,' and that the sublime truths of the divine unity and attributes which a Plato found most hard to learn, and deemed it still more difficult to reveal; that these should have become the almost hereditary property of childhood and poverty, of the hovel and the workshop; that even to the unlettered they sound as common-place, is a phenomenon which must withhold all but minds of the most vulgar cast from undervaluing the services even of the pulpit and the reading-desk."

Coleridge's Biographia Lateraria, vol. i, p. 226.

Thus, agreeably to the above, Samuel, together with his less educated neighbours, would pray for the Lord to "wakken" the slumbering sinner.

DUP. EXCH. 23 JAN

1903