Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life and Writings of James Montgomery, Vol. 1: Including Selections From His Correspondence, Remains in Prose, and Verse, and Conversations on Various Subjects Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Campbell, Rogers, Crabbe, Moore, and Montgomery himself, he was at once the coeval and the exponent: While with the mighty evangelical awakening, in which originated so many Bible, Missionary, Sunday School, and Tract Societies, besides others of a kindred nature, the name and labours of our friend were specially associated: to which must be added, the influence which a character thus moulded and directed by Christian principles, and sweetened by the amenities of literature and poesy, necessarily gave him in the local councils of the good people of Sheffield, among whom he resided. It is not intended by these remarks to represent Montgomery as occupying a preeminent position in any one of the proud spheres of interest and influence in question; for in each were to be found some, and in others several, names that ranked higher than his own: but it is not, perhaps, too much to assert, that in no other individual of his time were these latter elements of the spirit of the age so largely and so homogeneously combined. 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.