Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1800 edition. Excerpt: ... on the life of general george washington. Written at the Request of the Citizens ot new bury port, and delivered at the first Presbyterian Meeting-House in that Town, January 2, 1800. st thomas paine, A. As. O for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention! An empire for a stage, heroes to act, And angels to behold the swelling scene! Then should the Mighty Shade again assume His local habitation, and his name, Mantling our sphere with his supernal glory! Virtue and Fame should pioneer his way Through planets wonder-struck; while at his heels Valour and Victory (leasht in like hounds) Crouch for employment!" americans, The saviour of your country has obtained his last victory. Having reached the summit of human perfection, he has quitted the region of human glory. Conqueror Of Time, he has triumphed over mortality; Legate Of Heaven, he has returned with the tidings of his million; Father Of His People, he has ascended to advocate their cause in the bosom of his God. Solemn, " as it were a pause in nature," was his transit to eternity; thronged by the shades of heroes, his approach to the confines of bliss; paeaned by the song of angels, his journey beyond the stars! The voice of a grateful and afflicted people has pronounced the eulogium of their departed hero--"first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of bis countrymen" That this exalted tribute is justly due to his memory, the scar-honoured veteran, who has fought under the banners of his glory, the enraptured statesman, who has bowed to the dominion of his eloquence, the hardy cultivator, whose soil has been defended b"
