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Remains of ... Daniel Sandford [ed.] with a memoir by J. Sandford
Remains of Daniel Sandford with a memoir by J Sandford - ed. Author:Daniel Sandford Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LETTERS HIS DAUGHTERS. Edinburgh, May 1, 1810. My Dearest F , By the time that you receive this, you will be safe under the hospitable roof, to which... more » you have been, with so much cordiality, invited. I cannot express all that I feel towards Mrs ; of her tender care I am sure that my dear girl will be sensible, and I need not call upon her to be grateful, for she wants no monitor but her own good heart. I am glad to hear you were so well employed on Sunday at Lancaster; but I did not know that there was a cathedral there. It is no bishop's see. It is itself in the diocese of Carlisle. The book which Mrs had the goodness to put into your hand, is, I fancy, a very old and favourite friend of mine, known by the name of " GastrelPs Institutes." If I am right, you will find it a summary of Christian doctrines and duties, arranged under separate heads, anddrawn up in the words of Scripture. It was a great favourite of my dear mother's, and many a happy hour have I passed in reading it with her. If you can get a copy, it is well worth your buying, as I shall be glad to have it in the house. I should wish you to read Paley's Evidences, with which Mrs will furnish you, and half an hour in the morning will be well bestowed on the perusal of it; and another half-hour now and then, when you are quite well, and quite at leisure, in sending me some remarks. Paley's Natural Theology ought, in point of order, to be read first; but I believe you must wait to read that, till you and I can sit down to it together ., some anatomy is required, which I can furnish you with, and without which you cannot read the book to any good purpose. I am, by God's blessing, daily recovering; and in the afternoon of Sunday did the whole duty ; an exertion which, you know, I have not made ...« less