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PEN-PICTURES

OF

DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN DIVIN ES;

WITH

SKETCHES OF CONGREGATIONS AND CHOIRS;

AND INCIDENTAL NOTICES OF

EMINENT BRITISH PREACHERS.

BY JOHN ROSS DIX,

AUTHOR OF "PEN AND INK SKETCHES; ". "PASSAGES FROM THE
HISTORY OF A WASTED LIFE;
"PEN-PICTURES

OF

66

ENGLISH PREACHERS; THE LIFE OF
CHATTERTON;" ETC.

BOSTON:

TAPPAN AND WHITTEMORE.

MILWAUKIE: A. WHITTEMORE & CO.

CHILICOTHE: WHITTEMORE & SAXTON.

BR 569 ·D5

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

TAPPAN AND WHITTEMORE,

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

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Page.

Early Recollections. A Dull Preacher. Reminiscences of

Pulpit Orators. A Word or Two about what is to

Come....

CHAPTER II.

Picture-Making and Word-Sketching. A Literary Party.

Departed Friends. A Slight Mistake. The Rev. Mr.

Stockton, of Philadelphia. Notices of Wm. Dawson and

Robert Newton...

CHAPTER III.

1

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Pen-Pictures in Providence.

Scenes at Brown University.

President Wayland. Dr. Caswell. A Scene in Church, 31