Excerpt from Memoirs of Richard Cumberland: Containing an Account of His Life and Writings, Interspersed With Anecdotes and Characters of Several of the Most Distinguished Persons of the Time, With Whom He Has Had Intercourse and Connexion I was frequently called upon by her to repeat certain scriptural texts and passages, which she had taught me, and for which I seldom failed to be rewarded, but by which I was also frequent ly most completely puzzled and bewildered so that I much doubt if the good effects of this practice upon immature and 11: fantine understandings, will be found to keep pace with the good intentions of those who adopt it. One of these holy apothegms, viz z - t/je eyes of tbe Lord are in every place, beboldmg the evil and the good, I remember to have cost me many a struggle to ih terpret, and the result of my construction was directly oppos1te to the Spirit and meaning of the text. I was also occasionally summoned to attend upon the readings of long sermons and homilies of Baxter, as I believe, and others of his period neither by these was I edified, but, on the contrary, so effectually weari cd, that by noises and interruptions I seldom failed to render myself obnoxious, and obtain my dismission before the reading was over. 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.