Retrospection and Introspection

Retrospection and Introspection

Ancestral Shadows Autobiographic Reminiscences Voices Not Our Own Early Studies Girlhood Composition Theological Reminiscence The Country-seat (Poem) Marriage and Parentage Emergence into Light The Great Discovery Foundation Work Medical Experiments First Publication The Precious Volume Recuperative Incident A True Man College and Church "Feed My Sheep" (Poem) College Closed General Associations and Our Magazine Faith-cure Foundation-stones The Great Revelation Sin, Sinner, and Ecclesiasticism The Human Concept Personality Plagiarism Admonition Exemplification Waymarks I remember reading, in my childhood, certain manuscripts containing Scriptural sonnets, besides other verses and enigmas which my grandmother said were written by my great-grandmother. But because my great-grandmother wrote a stray sonnet and an occasional riddle, it was no sign that she inherited a spark from Hannah More, or was her relative. John and Marion Moor McNeil had a daughter, who perpetuated her mother's name. This second Marion McNeil in due time was married to an Englishman, named Joseph Baker, and so became my paternal grandmother, the Scotch and English elements thus mingling in her children. Mrs. Marion McNeil Baker was reared among the Scotch Covenanters, and had in her character that sturdy Calvinistic devotion to Protestant liberty which gave those religionists the poetic daring and pious picturesqueness which we find so graphically set forth in the pages of Sir Walter Scott and in John Wilson's sketches. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 16734
Author: Eddy, Mary Baker
Release Date: Sep 23, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English