Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . , orrelating to hiscelebrated uncle,the historian ofEngland. In Forres Street— a short andsteep one openingsouth from MorayPlace—No. 3 wasthe residence ofthe great ThomasChalmers, ,the leader of theFree Churchmovement, a large-hearted, patriotic,and devout man,and of whom ithas been said,that he was pre-eminently in theunity of an un-divided life, atonce a man ofGod, a man of science, and a man of the was born on the 17th of March, 1780. As apreacher, it is asserted, that there were few whoseeloquence was c
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . , orrelating to hiscelebrated uncle,the historian ofEngland. In Forres Street— a short andsteep one openingsouth from MorayPlace—No. 3 wasthe residence ofthe great ThomasChalmers, ,the leader of theFree Churchmovement, a large-hearted, patriotic,and devout man,and of whom ithas been said,that he was pre-eminently in theunity of an un-divided life, atonce a man ofGod, a man of science, and a man of the was born on the 17th of March, 1780. As apreacher, it is asserted, that there were few whoseeloquence was capable of producing an effectI so strong and irresistible as his, without his everhaving recourse to any of the arts of commonpulpit enthusiasm. His language was bold and magnificent; hisimagination fertile and distinct, gave richness to hisstyle, while his arguments were supplied with a vastand rapid diversity of illustration, and all who everheard him, still recall Thomas Chalmers with seriousand deep-felt veneration. He is thus described in his earlier years, and. L^ Mill \AJur Iortyait by Collin Siii:::: I-orrcs Street. 1 THOMAS CHALMERS. 20S long before he took the great part he did in thestorm of the Disruption :— At first sight his face is a coarse one—but amysterious kind of meaning breathes from everypart of it, that such as have eyes cannot be longwithout discovering. It is very pale, and thelarge half-closed eyelids have a certain droopingmelancholy about them, which interested me verymuch, I understood not why. The lips, too, aresingularly pensive in their mode of falling downat the sides, although there is no want of richnessand vigour in their central fulness of curve. Theup|)er lip from the nose downwards, is separated bya very deep line, whichgives a sort of leoninefirmness of expression toall the lower part of theface. The cheeks aresejuare and strong, in tex-ture like pieces of marble,with the cheek bonesvery broad and pro-minent. The e
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