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Excerpt from Short Compilation of the Extraordinary Life and Writings of Thomas Say: In Which Is Faithfully Copied, From the Original Manuscript, the Uncommon Vision, Which He Had When a Young Man Inytheir bright paths of splendid morali ty, philanthropy and religion: I Wish not to pamt the character of my worthy progenitor in very strong or glaring cc lours, neither would it be proper for me so to do 5 but only, In a plain dress, to perpetuate the memory of one Who may be truly said to have been an uncom mon man, both With respect to the ge neral tenour of his life, as Well as his remarkable religiousexperience. I am sorry to say that I am not in the posses sion ofmanuscript materials to furnish a regular and circumstantial detail there of, and shall have, in consequence, to de pend principally Upon'memory, to ex bibit those things which may be recol lected; they are as accurate as the nae ture of the'case will admit of. I vvisha ed him, some time previous to his death. 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.