Memorials of the Clayton Family (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Memorials of the Clayton Family: With Unpublished Correspondence of the Countess of Huntingdon, Lady Glenorchy, the Revs, John Newton, a Toplady, EtcIT may appear somewhat out of date, to publish the Memoirs of a family, the eldest member of which - the principal personage introduced in this volume - was born more than a hundred years ago; somewhat strange to lead the reader back, along the beaten pathway of time, to the close of the reign of George the Second - to a period, fifteen years anterior to the birth of Napoleon and Wellington. Yet to recount the chief incidents in a good man's life, - extending over eighty-nine years, and spent among the most stirring episodes in the world's history; and that man one who was intimately associated with those to whom, under God, was owing the revival of religion in this country, at the close of the last century, and who himself occupied a prominent and noticeable position among them, - may, I think, be justified on its own merits.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.