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eloquence, and manly arguments, or the incomparable liveliness and power of reasoning, to enable a congregation to see things that are not. I could never induce a man to believe, by the magic influence of a long whining exhortation or prayer, that twice five would not make ten in America, as well as in France! In a word, I never thought I was a great man-I never desire to be what the world calls a great man. No verily:

"My name from out the temple where the dead
Are honored by the nations-let it be-
And light the laurels on a loftier head!
And be the Spartan's epitaph on me-
Sparta hath many a worthier son than he."

In testimony whereof, I sign the same with my own hand, this seventeenth day of October, in the town of Knoxville, and state of Tennessee, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and in the fifty-ninth year of American Independence.

WILLIAM G. BROWNLOW.

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Parentage 242-death of his father-idem-born and

raised in Wythe county, Va.

Obtained religion at Sulphur Springs, 20 miles east of

Abingdon.

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Was appointed to French Broad circuit, and then to

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Receives deacon's orders, and appointed to travel in

Washington circuit.

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