 A character such as this is deserving of study, and his life ought to be written. Mrs. Oliphant has undertaken the work and has produced a biography of considerable merit. The author fully understands her hero, and sets forth the incidents of his career...  Female Life in Prison - Page 297by Frederick William Robinson - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - Human beings - 1863 - 338 pages
...PUBLICATIONS. THE LIFE OF EDWARD IRVING, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London. Illustrated by ma JOURNAL AND CORRESPONDENCE. By Mrs. OLIPHANT. SECOND...desideratum. It is copious, earnest, and eloquent, carrying the reader along, with something of the same excited admiration and pathetic sensibility with... | |
 | Vicissitudes - 1863 - 320 pages
...aims, and the extent of his powers. His friend Carlyle bears this testimony to his worth : — * I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever,...desideratum. It is copious, earnest, and eloquent, carrying the reader along, with something of the same excited admiration and pathetic sensibility with... | |
 | Eliza Stephenson - 1863 - 330 pages
...aims, and the extent of his powers. His friend Carlyle bears this testimony to his worth : — ' I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever,...desideratum. It is copious, earnest, and eloquent, caning the reader along, with something of the same excited admiration and pathetic sensibility with... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - Crime - 1863 - 330 pages
...his aims, and the extent of his powers. His friend Carlyle bears this testimony to his worth : — 'I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever,...desideratum. It is copious, earnest, and eloquent, carrying the reader along, with something of the same excited admiration and pathetic sensibility with... | |
 | Frederick William Robinson - 1863 - 332 pages
...aims, and the extent of his powers. His friend Carlyle bears this testimony to his worth : — ' I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever,...desideratum. It is copious, earnest, and eloquent, carrying the reader along, with something of the same excited admiration and pathetic sensibility with... | |
 | Annie Emma Challice - France - 1863 - 406 pages
...his aims, and the extent of his powers. His friend Carlyle bears this testimony to his worth :— * I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever,...desideratum. It is copious, earnest, and eloquent, carrying the reader along, with something of the same excited admiration and pathetic sensibility with... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1863 - 366 pages
...aims, and the extent of .his powers. His friend Carlyle bears this testimony to his worth : — ' I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever,...Edward Irving' supplies a long-felt desideratum. It ifl copious, earnest, and eloquent, earring the reader along, with something of the same excited admiration... | |
 | Anna D'Almeida - East Asia - 1863 - 330 pages
...aims, and the extent of his powers. His friend Carlyle bears this testimony to his worth :— • I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever,...The book is a good book on a most interesting theme" — Time*. "Mrs. Oliphant's * Life of Edward Irving' supplies a long-felt desideratum. It is copious,... | |
 | Caroline Elizabeth S. Norton (hon. mrs. George.) - 1863 - 330 pages
...worth : — * I call him, on the whole, the best man I have ever, after trial enough, found in thia world, or hope to find.' A character such as this...book Is a good book on a most interesting theme," — Time*. "Mrs. Oliphant's 'Life of Edward Irving' supplies a long-felt desideratum. It is copious,... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1863 - 388 pages
...on the whole, the best man I have ever, after trial enough, found in this world, or hope to flnd.' A character such as this is deserving of study, and...book is a good book on a most interesting theme." — Time$. " Mrs. Oliphant's ' Life of Edward Irving ' supplies a long-felt desideratum. It ,s copious,... | |
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