A Discourse on the First Centennial Celebration of the Birth-Day of Washington: Delivered by Request to the Citizens of Lexington on the 22d of February, 1832

Excerpt from A Discourse on the First Centennial Celebration of the Birth-Day of Delivered by Request, to the Citizens of Lexington, on the 22nd of February, 1832 IT is recorded of an orator Of antiquity, that, being chosen to address the people, on a subject too weighty to be handled 'by him, he appeared on the rostrum, at the appointed hour, but maintained a fixed and dejected silence. When asked, by one in authority, Why he did not commence his discourse? He falteringly replied, that the splendour of his theme had dazzled him into blindness, and its unutterable magnitude Strick en him dumb. 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.