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It Is To Be Regretted That Few Persons Who Have Arrived At Any Degree Of Eminence Or Fame, Have Written Memorials Of Themselves, At Least Such As Have Embraced Their Private As Well As Their Public Life.

However, All Gifts Seem Now To Be Absorbed In One And A Man Must Be Either A Preacher Or Nothing.

Few Men Can Be Said To Have Inimitable Excellencies: Let Us Watch Them In Their Progress From Infancy To Manhood, And We Shall Soon Be Convinced That What They Attained Was The Necessary Consequence Of The Line They Pursued, And The Means They Used.

Multitudes Of Words Are Neither An Argument Of Clear Ideas In The Writer, Nor A Proper Means Of Conveying Clear Notions To The Reader.

Whether The Family Of The Clarkes Were Of Norman Extraction Cannot Be Easily Ascertained.