Pulpit portraits, or, Pen-pictures of distinguished American divines; with sketches of congregations and choirs; and incidental notices of eminent British preachers. By John Ross Dix […]
Publisher: Tappan and Whittemore; A Whittemore & Co.; Whittemore & Saxton
Published: 1854
Place of publication: Boston; Milwaukee; Chilicothe
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
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Full title:</b> Pulpit portraits, or, Pen-pictures of distinguished American divines; with sketches of congregations and choirs; and incidental notices of eminent British preachers. By John Ross Dix, Author of “Pen and Ink Sketches;” “Passages from the History of a Wasted Life;” “Pen-pictures of English Preachers;” “The Life of Chatterton;” etc.
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. vii, 256. Original cloth.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spurious ‘recollections’ by the English poet, artist, traveler, failed physician, and (alternately) alcoholic mendicant and temperance crusader John Dix (later John Ross Dix, 1811–?1864). Dix published the present work after emigrating to the United States.
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103451" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>