Excerpt from The Life and Time of George Lawson, D.D., Selkirk, Professor of Theology to the Associate Synod: With Glimpses of Scottish Character From 1720 to 1820 To this joint application, Mr Lawson, after considerable hesitation, yielded. He commenced to write his honoured father's memoir, but had only proceeded in it a few pages, when he was called suddenly to his own account. Other attempts were made to prevail upon Dr John Brown or Dr Henderson to undertake the duty, but without success. All hope of a memoir of the great and good Professor was then abandoned. 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.