An Address

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Excerpt from An Address: Before the Zelosophic Society of the University of Pennsylvania, January 25, 1842 Every season of life has its dreams, its waste of time and mind in unrealities, and youth, perhaps, more than any : still it may be doubted whether the earlier stages of our journey are not more practical and laborious than those of after life. Youth has every motive to exertion, and these appeal to minds and frames which move, as the spring moves near its fountain, with a sparkling alacrity, unknown to the broad river of advanced life. They who treat it as a season spanned only by rainbow hopes, and dreamy imaginings, sacrifice to a fiction, their own memory of its care and labours. It is the season of practical exertion, and as such, I will endeavour to consider its duties, with a simple and frank fidelity. However much we may have done in our academic hours, who reverts to them without a pang for that which was left undone? In this, as in all things, the greatest prodigality accompanies the greatest wealth. 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.