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Excerpt from The British Critic: Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record; July, 1834 Watson, late Secretary to the Wesleyan Missionary Society. By Thomas Jackson. London. 1834. The subject of these Memoirs certainly appears to have been a very extraordinary man. We can scarcely wonder that the Wesleyans should be proud of him. With a very feeble frame of body, and a very irregular intellectual training, he undoubtedly achieved wonders within a very short span of life; for he died at the age of fifty-two, worn down by the combined operation of constitutional malady and of incessant toil. The following is a brief sketch of his biography, collected from the volume now before us: of which volume we have only to say, that it is written in a perspicuous and tolerably unambitious style; but that, withal, it is most tremendously diffuse, and stuffed out with enormous extracts from the Missionary Reports, drawn up by the deceased in the course of his labours as Secretary to the Wesleyan Missionary Society. This, however, is a peculiarity which will, probably, do nothing to impede the circulation of the work among the members of Mr. W'atson's own communion. While his memory is yet fresh, they will hardly be weary of perusing the words of their distinguished and venerated minister. The time may, possibly, come, when a somewhat briefer narra tive may satisfy the curiosity of the religious public. 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.