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See also:GILFILLAN, See also:GEORGE (1813-1878) , Scottish author, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:January 1813, at Comrie, See also:Perthshire, where his See also:father, the Rev. See also:Samuel Gilfillan, the author of some theological See also:works, was for many years See also:minister of a See also:Secession See also:congregation. After an See also:education at See also:Glasgow. University, in See also:March 1836 he was ordained pastor of a Secession congregation in See also:Dundee. He published a See also:volume of his discourses in 1839, and shortly afterwards another See also:sermon on " Hades," which brought him under the See also:scrutiny of his co-presbyters, and was ultimately withdrawn from circulation. Gilfillan next contributed a See also:series of sketches of celebrated contemporary authors to the See also:Dumfries See also:Herald, then edited by See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Aird; and these, with several new ones, formed his first See also:Gallery of See also:Literary Portraits, which appeared in 1846, and had a wide circulation. It was quickly followed by a Second and a Third Gallery. In 1851 his most successful See also:work, the Bards of the See also:Bible, appeared. His aim was that it should be " a poem on the Bible "; and it was far more rhapsodical than See also:critical. His Martyrs and Heroes of the Scottish See also:Covenant appeared in 1832, and in 1856 he produced a partly autobiographical, partly fabulous, See also:History of a See also:Man. For See also:thirty years he was engaged upon a See also:long poem, on See also:Night, which was published in 1867, but its theme was too vast, vague and unmanageable, and the result was a failure. He also edited an edition of the See also:British Poets. As a lecturer and as a preacher he See also:drew large crowds, but his literary reputation has not proved permanent. He died on the 13th of See also:August 1878. He had just finished a new See also:life of See also:Burns designed to accompany a new edition of the works of that poet.
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