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Excerpt from The Autobiography and Diary of Mr. James Melvill, 1842, Vol. 1: With a Continuation of the Diary
In the year 1580, after his uncle had returned to his charge as Principal of St Andrews, our Author was appointed Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages in the same University, and was soon afterwards invited to be Minister of Stirling, which offer, however, he declined to accept. 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.
