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Excerpt from The Life and Character of Leonard Woods, D.D., LL. D
The reasons for these prophecies regarding him were the following He was inured to habits of mental diligence, and his capacious memory retained the large information which he had acquired; he started in his public life at no small distance ahead of his co-equals in age, and there appeared no reason to believe that he would lose the vantage-ground attained by his early discipline he was precocious, but yet in a healthy way, and gave no sign that the rapidity of his development would be lessened with age he had a rare purity of spirit, an exceeding sweetness of temper, a winning facility and grace of speech. 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.