Memoir, Extracts of Speeches, Diary of Journey to America, &C

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Excerpt from Memoir, Extracts of Speeches, Diary of Journey to America, &C, : In Memoriam IT was the remark of one Of the keenest observers Of human life, and it has been repeated a thousand times since, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men and if, like many other aphorisms, this be open to the Objection of pushing a truth to the extreme, it may at least be safely asserted that the lives of the best men - Of those who have been the brightest examples Of their generation - may be written in few lines. Of the greater number of them the most that can be related, beyond the mere accidents and circumstances Of their life, is that, like the great saint of Old, they walked with God, and at the last were not or that, like the pious kings Of Israel, they did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and in due time slept with their fathers. And the life Of the venerated subject of this memoir is no exception to this rule, for though his labours were long and numerous, and though he held a conspicuous place in the church and in the world, so unobtrusively were his duties performed, that little more can be said Of him than that he did them, and did them well. Those, however, for whom this work is chie¿y intended will, it is confidently believed, accept with a. 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.