THE

Village Blacksmith;

OR,

PIETY AND USEFULNESS EXEMPLIFIED.

IN A

MEMOIR

OF THE LIFE OF

SAMUEL HICK,

LATE OF MICKLEFIELD,

Yorkshire.

BY JAMES EVERETT.

"That not only the maxims, but the grounds of a pure morality, the mere fragments of wtura
the 'lofty grave tragedians taught in chorus or iambic," and that the ru
unity and attributes, which a Plato found most hard to learn and deered a still more diffatur *s
reveal; that these should have become the almost hereditary property of
of the hovel and the workshop; that even to the unlettered they wound u
phenomenon which must withhold all but minds of the most rigar car from anderwing the
services even of the pulpit and the reading-desk."

COLERIDGE'S Biogruphus Lamora, ve. I j 22

THE FOURTH EDITION.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND CO.. AND
J. MASON, 66, PATER-NOSTER-ROW.

1832.

ΤΟ

MR. WILLIAM DAWSON,

OF BARNBOW, NEAR LEEDS,

A LOVER OF GOOD MEN,

AN EXAMPLE OF GOOD WORKS,

AND A SUCCESSFUL PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL OF

JESUS CHRIST,

THIS MEMOIR

AS A MEMORIAL OF PRIVATE FRIENDSHIP,

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED,

BY

THE AUTHOR.