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Among the crowd which filled the church was a young Oxford student, himself the son of a Scottish minister, who had been surprised by hearing Mr. Chalmers's work on the Evidences of Christianity mentioned with high approval, within the walls of an English University, shortly after the date of its publication.
Malone has sent him without sufficient warrant to the desk of some seneschal of a county court: but these are obscurities that require other lights than conjecture and assertion, which, by proving nothing, only establish disbelief." p. 226. So much for Chalmers's having "first suggested" the theory, of which Lord Campbell has undertaken the support.
"I see," she said one day, on entering the theological library, where Jessie, having laid down a worsted cuff which she had been knitting, was deep in Leslie's Short and Easy method with the Deists, and Kate, having dropped a worsted comforter, had lost herself in Chalmers's Astronomical Discourses. "I see you are both busy, so I won't disturb you.
Fleetwood, Bishop of Ely, said of it that he thought the author had pretty sufficiently proved they were of no use at all. Chalmers's Biog. Dict. xi. 209. Enquiry after Happiness, by Richard Lucas, D.D., 1685. Divine Dialogues, by Henry More, D.D. See ante, ii. 162, note I. By David Gregory, the second of the sixteen professors which the family of Gregory gave to the Universities. Ante, p. 48.
He took part in the battle of Plassey in 1757, and commanded at the reduction of Pondicherry in 1761. In 1770-71 he went by land to Europe. In 1780 he took command of the English army against Hyder Ali, whom he repeatedly defeated. He died in 1783. Chalmers's Biog. Dict. x. 236. There is a fine description of him in Macaulay's Essays, ed. 1843, iii. 385. See ante, iii. 361.
They had wanted to trace John Chalmers's history, but he would tell nothing of it himself, and his past was a mystery, and there was a feeling among those who discussed the case that this would be against him. In fact, every one said he was surely guilty.
There can never be another Jacob's Dream. Since that time, the heavens have gone farther off, and grown astronomical. They have become averse to the imagination; nor will they return to us on the squares of the distances, or on Doctor Chalmers's Discourses. Rembrandt's picture brings the matter nearer to us.
Pitt at length recalled him, because 'he never heard from him, and could not know what he was doing. See Chalmers's Biog. Dict. xi. 161 for an account of a controversy about the identity of this writer with an historian of the same name. He had paid but little attention to his own rule. See ante, ii. 119.
This volume reprints for the first time in the present century the text of the 'Spectator' as its authors left it. Chalmers's text, of 1817, was hardly better, and about two-thirds of the whole number of corruptions had already appeared in Bisset's edition of 1793, from which they were transferred. Thus Bisset as well as Chalmers in the Dedication to Vol.
The emigrant, deep in Australian forests, may take down Chalmers's sermons on Sabbath evenings from the scanty shelf: but the songs of Burns have been haunting his lips, and cheering his heart, and moulding him, unconsciously to himself, in clearing and in pasture all the weary week.
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