The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Robert Hall

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Excerpt from The Miscellaneous Works of the Rev. Robert Hall: With Memoir by Olinthus Gregory, LL. D., F. R. A.S., And a Critical Estimate of His Character and Writings At about six years Of age he was placed, as a day-scholar, under the charge of a Mr. Simmons, Of Wigston, a village about four miles from Arnsby. At first, he walked to school in the mornings and home again in the evenings. But the severe pain in his back, from which he suffered so much through life, had even then begun to distress him, so that he was often obliged to lie down upon the road, and sometimes his brother John and his other schoolfellows carried him, in turn, he repaying them during their labour by relating some amusing story, or detailing some of the interesting results Of his reading. On his father's ascertaining his inability to walk so far daily, he took lodgings for him and his brother at the house Of a friend in the village: after this arrangement was made they went to Wigston on the Monday mornings, and te turned to Arnsby on the Saturday afternoons. The course of instruction at Mr. Simmons's school was not very extensive and Robert was not likely to restrict himself as a student to its limits. On starting from home on the Monday, it was his practice to take with him two or three books from his father's library, that he might read them in the intervals between the school hours. The books he se lected were not those of mere amusement, but such as required deep and serious thought. The works of Jonathan Edwards, for example, were among his favourites, and it is an ascer tained fact, that before he was nine years Of age, he had pe rused and reperused, with intense interest, the treatises of that profound and extraordinary thinker, on the Affections, ' and on the Will.' About the same time he read, with a like interest, Butler's Analogy.' He used to ascribe his early predilection for this class of studies, in great measure, to his intimate association, in mere childhood, with a tailor, one of his father's congregation, a very shrewd, well-informed man, and an acute metaphysician. Before he was ten years Old, he had written many essays, principally on religious sub jects, and often invited his brother and sisters to hear him preach. About this time, too, in one of those anticipatory distributions Of a father's property, which I apprehend are not unusual with boys, he proposed that his brother should have the cows, sheep, and pigs, on their father's death, and leave him all the books. These juvenile dividers Of the inheritance seem to have overlooked their sisters, unless, indeed, they assigned them the furniture. The incident, how ever, is mentioned simply to Show what it was that Robert even then most prized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.