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Excerpt from Memorials of the Life of John Gregg D.D: Bishop of Torh, Elonne, and Boss, and Formerly Minister of Trinity Chruch, Dublin Many requests were made by friends that I should prepare a memoir of my father's life; but the materials at hand did not supply the information usually to be found in a biography. He never was in the habit of keeping a journal of his acts or of his opinions, nor was he in the habit Of recording his Views on men and things in letters, or of entering upon a discus sion of general topics in his correspondence. I felt, too, that to enter into the details of his private life, and thus attempt to give import ance to ordinary occurrences, would be to do that which, if he could speak, he would forbid. 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.