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Excerpt from An Eulogium, Pronounced 23d January, 1835, in the Chapel of the College of Charleston: Before the Trustees, Faculty and Students; On the Life and Character of the Late Elias Horry, Esq.
I N no single age of the world, has the stock of living merit been very great. Among the hundreds of millions, of which each generation of our race has consisted, there have been compara tively very few, who have suitably improved their talents, or who have discharged the full measure of duty appropriate to the spheres in which they moved, and exacted by the relations which they sustained in life. The number is still less, who have con tributed their labours and exertions for the benefit of mankind, and who, on leaving the world, have left any fruit of their labours, by which, those coming after them, might be enlarged in understanding, increased in knowledge, strengthened in virtue, or otherwise improved in their capacities for re?ection and action. Of those who have been raised above the ordinary lot of being born, of living a few years, of dying, and of being forgotten, quite as many have been distinguished for the evil which they have done, as for the good which they have achieved, in their day and generation.
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