Excerpt from A Discourse on Occasion of the Death of the Late Dr. Channing: Delivered in the Great Meeting-House, Coventry, on Sunday, November 20, 1842, and Re-Delivered at Northampton and Warwick I. The first mental characteristic which I shall notice as attaching to him is, the disposition he had to concern himself mainly, if not exclusively, with the principles of a subject. His mind grasped the essential points on the questions with which he had to do, and he invariably endeavoured to resolve those questions by an appeal to the cardinal truths with which they might be identified. He troubled himself but little with argu ments which merely suited the case in hand, but addressed himself to those arguments which would equally apply to all other similar cases. He was not careful to meet each separate detail Of his sub ject, but contented himself with enforcing the great ideas to whose law all such details were subservient. He put aside the considerations which immediately related to party interests, and dwelt only upon those interests which were Of universal bearing. 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.