Excerpt from Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton, Formerly Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, Etc: With Selections From His CorrespondenceWith this view, adopting Mr. Newton's narrative and adhering to the outline marked out by Mr. Cecil, the narrative has been en riched, wherever it was possible to do so, by the introduction of Mr. Newton's own de tails, letters, and memoranda. It thus be comes in some measure assimilated to those later and more popular biographies already alluded to, in which Henry Martyn, Thomas Scott, and Legh Richmond are found to supply, in their own language, all the chief details of their own history. The preference which the public has so distinctly shewn for this plan of writing personal histories, is oh viously founded, not in fancy, but in feeling.

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