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A Discourse on the Genius and Character of the REV. Horace Holley, LL. D.; Late President of Transylvania University

A Discourse on the Genius and Character of the REV. Horace Holley, LL. D.; Late President of Transylvania University


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: But brilliant and attractive as is my theme, and far as it is from being exhausted of its opulency, I must no longer resist the pressing admonitions of time and circumstance to close this Discourse. But indulge me first in adding, that as long as the Tortugas, in the midst of which the blue waters opened to receive his remains, shall continue to swell above the surrounding billows, they will serve as a monument to draw forth from voyagers of refined sensibility, and from the generous and high-minded sons of the ocean, a sigh of remembrance and a tear of sorrow, in homage to our friend who reposes at their base. ENl) OF THE DISCOURSE. APPENDIX, CONTAINING A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PRESIDENT HOLLEY, EXTRACTS FROM HIS LETTERS, ILLUSTRATIVE NOTESs chapter{Section 4APPENDIX. Note A. ?belong to the biographer rather than the eulogist, p. 4. In contemplating an exquisite work of art, it may not be necessary to refer the imagination or the judgment to the process by which such perfection was attained. It is sufficient that it excites our whole admiration. But who does not inquire, whence sprung this model by which the world has been delighted; by what agency has it acquired such mastery over our hearts ? Who, when the genius which inspired it is no more, will not love to dwell, not only upon its maturity, but on each step of its progress?its earliest indications ? Who will not demand, whence its origin ? Thus, in describing the matured character, it may not be necessary to go back to the infancy of its powers. To trace its virtues to their beginnings does not increase or diminish their value or beauty; yet such a process is not without its uses, certainly not without interest. The philosopher and the moralist are as fond of first principles as of results. ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217664967
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 86
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217664962
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 168 gr

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