Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . in that dreary oblong barnof a church at Kiimany; and descanting to thebewildered rustics, like a Stoic teacher beforethe coming of Christ, on all the cardinal andminor virtues, or horrifying them with picturesof bloody war, or rousing their manly breaststo meet and repel the Corsican invader, likeundegenerate sons of the * Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled,Scots wham Bruce has aften led. 44 THOMAS CHALMERS. He held a ministers duties to be very asserted, in the pamphlet which has beenalluded to, * from what to him is the highest ofall authority
Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . in that dreary oblong barnof a church at Kiimany; and descanting to thebewildered rustics, like a Stoic teacher beforethe coming of Christ, on all the cardinal andminor virtues, or horrifying them with picturesof bloody war, or rousing their manly breaststo meet and repel the Corsican invader, likeundegenerate sons of the * Scots wha hae wi Wallace bled,Scots wham Bruce has aften led. 44 THOMAS CHALMERS. He held a ministers duties to be very asserted, in the pamphlet which has beenalluded to, * from what to him is the highest ofall authority, the authority of his own experi-ence, that, after the satisfactory discharge of hisparish duties, a minister may enjoy five daysin the week in uninterrupted leisure for the pro-secution of any science in which his taste maydispose him to engage. True to his maxim, hetoiled away at his mathematics, in the hope ofone day being a professor. So months and years rolled on with ThomasChalmers at Kilmany, — a powerful, but anaimless man !. A NEW MAN.
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