Address of John Randolph Tucker, Esq.: Delivered Before the Phoenix and Philomathean Societies, of William and Mary College, on the 3d of July, 1854; ... of the Two Societies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Tucker, John Randolph

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ISBN 10: 1331045096 ISBN 13: 9781331045090

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2019

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Excerpt from Address of John Randolph Tucker, Esq.: Delivered Before the Phoenix and Philomathean Societies, of William and Mary College, on the 3d of July, 1854; Published at the Request of the Two Societies

Now each one of these views contains principles of vital and deserves the high estimation in which it is held.

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Excerpt from Address of John Randolph Tucker, Esq.: Delivered Before the Phoenix and Philomathean Societies, of William and Mary College, on the 3d of July, 1854; Published at the Request of the Two Societies

Gentlemen of the Phoenix and Philomathean Societies:

The circumstances which have concurred to call me to address you, I will be ever regarded as among the most pleasant of my life. Among them I shall highly cherish the unexpected partiality which suggested your invitation, and the courtesy which has marked my reception among you.

Few places in the world have for me a deeper personal interest than this. Amid the greetings of kindly welcome, I have missed the warm cordiality of one whose devotion to its prospective advancement was only equalled by his intense veneration for its former) renown; and while it is with natural sadness I recur to associations) which are past forever, it affords me high gratification to visit Williamsburg as the home, and this literary institution as the school of a generation of my own family, whose names are embalmed in the) memory of its descendants.)

But my feelings as a citizen of Virginia, in looking upon the scenes which, with the lapse of time, cluster in classic beauty about I the venerable edifices and ruins of this old borough, make it to me a spot sacred to the sentiment of patriotism. We stand in the ancient Capital of the Colony of the Old Dominion. There, were those mouldering heaps, where standing walls once heard the indignant cry of Henry's patriot voice, awakening a continent to revolution, and its colonies to independence. There stands in its rude and misshapen - but to us interesting plainness, the "Old Raleigh," where power heard its noblest lesson of submission to the demands of liberal principles.

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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.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1331045096
• ISBN 13: 9781331045090
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32