The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . narrative, athoroughly truthful view of the character of Washington—of the acts of his life—with an impartial estimate of the menand agencies by which he was surrounded. He attained allthis and more. His work has been read with interest, nay,with affection, and promises long to retain its hold upon thepublic. Mr. Irving had now reached the close of life, withas few of the infirmities as fall to the lot even of those ac-counted most
The story of the Hall of fame, including the lives and portraits of the elect and of those who barely missed election Also a list of America's most eligible women . narrative, athoroughly truthful view of the character of Washington—of the acts of his life—with an impartial estimate of the menand agencies by which he was surrounded. He attained allthis and more. His work has been read with interest, nay,with affection, and promises long to retain its hold upon thepublic. Mr. Irving had now reached the close of life, withas few of the infirmities as fall to the lot even of those ac-counted most fortunate. His health, delicate in his youth,had strengthened with his years, and during the long periodsof his residence abroad he knew no illness. The breaking-up of his powers was gradual, affecting only his physicalstrength. His mind — the felicity of his thoughts, thebeauty of his expression, his style, were unimpaired to thelast. His death occurred suddenly, in his Sunnyside cottage,as he was retiring to rest on the night of November 28,1859. He fell with scarcely a word— Death broke at once the vital chain,And freed his soul the nearest THE HALL OF FAME CHAPTER EDWARDS God is the head of the universal system of existencefrom whom all is perfectly derived and on whom all is mostabsolutely dependent, whose being and beauty is the sumand comprehension of all existence and excellence. INSCRIP- TION ON THE TABLET ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF JONATHAN EDWARDS IN THE HALL OF FAME. JONATHAN EDWARDS, the great New Englandtheologian, was born in the town of East Windsor,Connecticut, October 5, 1703. The family was ofWelsh extraction, and his father, Timothy Edwards, was agraduate of Harvard College, in the class of 1691. As therewas a great lack of preparatory schools, Timothy Edwards,who was also the pastor of the East Parish of Windsor,fitted students for college, and had the reputation of beinga successful teacher. He was pastor of the same church forover
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