Address Delivered Before the Philanthropic and Dialectic Societies of the University of North Carolina, June 3, 1857 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Address Delivered Before the Philanthropic and Dialectic Societies of the University of North Carolina, June 3, 1857 Gentlemen of the Philanthropic and Dialectic Societies: In the beautiful story of Rasselas, Imlac, who rehearses the history of his pilgrimage and adventures, for the amusement and instruction of the Prince of Abasynia, is represented as longing, after an absence of twenty years, to return to his native country, that he might repose, after his travels and fatigues, amongst those "with whom lie had sported away the gay hours of dawning life." But how sad were his emotions on thus returning! What changes had been wrought in every thing that met his eye! Most of the companions of his youth had departed, and the few who were left retained but a faint remembrance of him, or met him with cold indifference! Yet, even with that sadness were associated joys that brought gladness to his heart. So, he who has been absent for a score of years, from the scenes of his youth - from this "benign mother" that nursed his dawning intellect, and watched over the wayward emotions of his youthful heart, cannot expect to revisit them, without having a cloud of momentary sadness pass across his feelings, lie listens, in vain, for those voices by which he was once welcomed, and looks around, in disappointment, for those familiar faces, by whoso smiles he was greeted! Those, by whose side he sat for years, and with whom he vied, in honorable rivalry, in the race of intellectual improvement, have gone. Where death has withheld his fatal dart, the rude hand of adversity, or the alluring smiles of fortune, have carried them far away on the ocean of life! 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.