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Excerpt from Miscellaneous Essays and Addresses: Also Biographical Note and Bibliography Stirling of Keir and Elizabeth Maxwell, daughter of Sir John Maxwell of Nether Pollok. He was educated in the private school of Mr. Langley, Vicar of Olney, in Buckinghamshire, and at Trinity Col lege, Cambridge, where he graduated in 18 39. After leaving Cambridge Mr. Stirling spent some time abroad, visiting the Levant and various parts of Europe. He returned from Syria in 1842, and four years later be printed privately some of his Songs of the Holy Land, of which a larger collection was published in 1848. 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.