Excerpt from Memoir of William Ellery Channing, Vol. 1 of 3: With Extracts From His Correspondence and Manuscripts Such as it is, this Memoir is now Offered to the world. It will be found rich in documents illustrative of Dr. Channing's inner and outward life; and this constitutes the essential value of a biography. I claim only to have been a conscientious editor. The sense of responsibility to many friends has made it wholly im possible to speak with the hearty unreserve with which it would have been pleasing to communicate one's indi vidual impressions of such a man; and in contrast with the ideal of what this work should be, the fragmentary notices here given seem meagre and dull indeed. I trust, -however, that through all obscurations the bright original still shines forth. 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.