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Again I beg to thank you for your kind remembrance of me on the present occasion .-- Believe me, my dear Sir, yours very truly, J.H.
FORBES. Dr.CANDLISH to DEAN RAMSAY. 4 S.Charlotte Street, Tuesday, 6th March. My dear Sir--I cannot deny myself the pleasure of expressing to you the deep interest and delight with which I listened to your discourse last night, so worthy, in every view, of the subject, the occasion, and the audience.
And while I thank you most sincerely for so cordial and genial a tribute to the memory of the greatest of modern Scotsmen, I venture to express my hope that we may be favoured with an earlier and wider publication of it than the Transactions of the Royal Society will afford .-- Pray excuse this intrusion, and believe me, yours very truly, ROB.
S.CANDLISH. Dean Ramsay. I will indulge myself only with one phrase from the Dean's memoir of Dr.Chalmers:--"Chalmers's greatest delight was to contrive plans and schemes for raising degraded human nature in the scale of moral living.
The favourite object of his contemplation was human nature attaining the highest perfection of which it is capable, and especially as that perfection was manifested in saintly individuals, in characters of great acquirements, adorned with the graces of Christian piety.
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