. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. arrayed themselves in opposition to 1843-4 he visited Europe, and on his return to Boston he beganpreaching his peculiar doctrines to
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. arrayed themselves in opposition to 1843-4 he visited Europe, and on his return to Boston he beganpreaching his peculiar doctrines to hisadherents at the Melodeon. Over thiscongregation he was regularly installedin 1846. From 1847 to 1850 he editedthe Massachusetts Quarterly Revieiv^lectured on various political and socialtopics, corresponded with many prom-inent men, and gave attention to otherintellectual pursuits. Particularly didhe oppose the fugitive-slave law, andsheltered runaway slaves in his ownhouse. His earliest published bookwas the Discourse of Matters Per-taining to Religion, which containsthe fundamental principles of thosepeculiar tenets known as ?Parker-ism. In 1859, for the purpose ofrecruiting his health, he visited theWest Indies, and that summer hewent to Europe, spending the fol-lowing winter at Rome. In the springhe went to Florence, Italy, where hedied in May, 1860. His comprehen-sive and valuable collection of books,amounting to more than 13,000 vol-. rauch confidence or over-zeal he was persuaded to contribute to theattempt of John Brown, of Ossawattomie, to raid Virginia in thecause of anti-slavery, and its failure, together with the loss of lifeattending it, is said to have unsettled the mind of Mr. Smith to adegree that caused his confinement for some months in an insaneasylum. During the Southern rebellion he contributed freely of hismeans for the raising of Lnion troops, but his universal philanthropyled him afterwards to become a bondsman with Horace Greeley forthe release of J
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