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Download or read book The Eclectic Review, Vol. 8 written by Jonathan Edwards Ryland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Eclectic Review, Vol. 8: July-December, 1854 Irving, indeed, left himself no choice. He had so fiercely and unsparingly assaulted the modes of thought and styles of preach ing which prevailed in the Church, that he was compelled, in consistency and self-defence, to aim at a novel and original plan of promulgating the old doctrines. By and by, intercourse with Coleridge, added to his own restless spirit of speculation, began to shake his confidence in many parts of our ancient creeds. A new system, of colossal proportions, founded, indeed, on the basis of Scripture, but ascending till its summits were lost in mist, began to rise under his Babylonian hand. He saw, too, for the first time, the mountain-ranges of prophecy lowering before him, dark and cloud-girt for the most part, but with strange gleams shining here and there upon their tops, and with pale and shadowy hands beckoning him onwards into their midst. These were to him the Delectable Mountains, and to gain the summit of Mount Clear became henceforth the object of his burning and ambition. He toiled up these hills for many a weary hour and with many a heavy groan, but his strong faith and sanguine genius supported him in the evening of each laborious day he fancied he saw, on the unreached pinnacle. 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.