Excerpt from The Life and Character of Leonard Woods, D.D., LL. DThe reasons for these prophecies regarding him were the following He was inured to habits of mental diligence, and his capacious memory retained the large information which he had acquired, he started in his public life at no small distance ahead of his co-equals in age, and there appeared no reason to believe that he would lose the vantage-ground attained by his early discipline he was precocious, but yet in a healthy way, and gave no sign that the rapidity of his development would be lessened with age he had a rare purity of spirit, an exceeding sweetness of temper, a winning facility and grace of speech.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.