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LITERATURE;

DESCRIPTIVE, CRITICAL, HUMOROUS,

BIOGRAPHICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL,

AND POETICAL.

BY

SAMUEL GILMAN, D. D.

BOSTON:

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY,

111 WASHINGTON STREET.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by

CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

METCALF AND COMPANY, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.

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THE CHARLESTON LITERARY CLUB,

WHOSE SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCES,

FELT EVEN BEYOND THE PRIVATE SPHERE,

HAVE AVAILED TO CHARM AND RETARD THE AUTHOR'S DECLINING AGE,

THESE

CONTRIBUTIONS TO LITERATURE

ARE RESPECTFULLY AND CORDIALLY INSCRIBED

BY

THEIR ATTACHED ASSOCIATE.

PREFACE.

In the course of an almost absorbing devotion, for forty years, to the duties of the sacred profession, the author of the following pages has indulged in various exercises of a more purely literary character. To such occasional excursions he has surrendered himself, sometimes as his own spirit prompted, but more frequently in obedience to the invitation or the request of others. Venturing to judge from the kind manner in which some of his productions have been received, and inspired by the usual fond ambition of authorship, he is induced to publish a selection from these miscellaneous accumulations of a lifetime. Many of them are now out of print, and several have never been published at all. The author therefore trusts that the present compilation will be regarded by an extensive circle of friends as a welcome memorial, even should it fail of a favorable reception from the public at large.

The different articles have been arranged without reference to chronological order, and indeed on no decided

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