MEDITATIONS AND CONTEMPLATIONS. BY JAMES HERVEY, A. M. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON AND COMPANY. 110 WASHINGTON STREET. 1853. 1. 8-16-49 aluz Hay & g 770 H431me 1853 ERHAPS few men were ever better known by their writings, or less known in the common circles of society, than the Rev. James Hervey, the subject of these Memoirs. At all times he was studious and contemplative; generally he was sequestered in a country village; and often he was confined by sickness and great languor. He had no taste for the amusements or the converse of the generality of the world. The particular events of his life were not diversified with much variety of circumstance; but the temper of the man, the course of his studies, the bent of his (3) |