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The Life, Letters and Remains of the Rev. Robert Pollok, A.m., Author of the Course of Time and Tales of the Covenanters
The Life Letters and Remains of the Rev Robert Pollok Am Author of the Course of Time and Tales of the Covenanters Author:James Scott General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1848 Original Publisher: R. Carter Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. " And further taught that in the soul alone, The thinking, reasonable, willing soul, God placed the total excellence of man ; And meant him evermore to seek it there." At the close of the Logic session, Mr. Pollok's health was slightly impaired.' Nor is this surprising when we take into consideration the great thoughts which were struggling for a lodgment in his soul, and the efforts he was making to stand upon the high places of literature. The following letter which he wrote to his brother David a few weeks after his return to the home of his childhood, will give the best and truest portraiture of his inward self at the time. " Moarhouse, June 13, 1821. " Dear Brother, " Accompanying this are a few lines " on anger." I would have sent you some more poetry which I have occasionally put together, but I have no paper. " I have been studying hard this some time, for 1 found rambling idle did no good to my health. I have been considerably worse since the commencement of May. My spirits have been for the last two weeks unusually dull. The present state of my body and the influence which it has on my mind, renders my sleep short and precarious. My situation is, indeed, not agreeable. To be driving at literature without adequate assistance, is a hard task: but to be without adequate assistance and stimulating health, is harder still. When I look to the scholar's unprotected fate, and think that even at this season of the year, my health is rather retrograde, the prospect is indeed gloomy. I have not spoken of the state of my health to any person here ; ...« less