Life, Letters, Lectures, and Addresses of Fredk. W. Robertson, M.A., Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-1853, Complete in One Volume

  • Hard Cover
  • New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865
By Robertson, Fredk. W. [Frederick William]
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. No publisher date (preface to the first edition dated 1865). Edith Foster Dulles's (relative of U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing. These were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him) copy, with her name in ink on first blank. Spine faded with tears, general light wear. 840 pp. "Frederick William Robertson, (born Feb. 3, 1816, London—died Aug. 15, 1853, Brighton, Sussex, Eng.), Anglican clergyman who became widely popular particularly among the working class because of the oratory and psychological insight in his sermons preached from 1847 at Trinity Chapel, Brighton. Appealing to a broad religious consensus within Anglican belief by avoiding theological concepts, he advocated the reform ideas of the 1848 Revolution, but his views generated strong opposition. His Sermons, published posthumously (1855–74), deeply influenced Anglican devotion." -Britannica

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