Washington´s Farewell Address
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Excerpt from Washington´s Farewell Address: Webster´s First Bunker Hill Monument Oration; And Other Patriotic Selections Through the quieter years that followed Washington is still the boy´s hero, - as he presides over the convention of 1787 and helps draw up the constitution; as he enters upon the presidency; and as, about to assume again reluctant command of the army should war with France break out, he dies suddenly at his home at Mount Vernon in 1799. But this military and civil career, thrilling as it is to the American boy, shows by no means the whole of the greatness of Washington. It is the man who thought and wrote who is of particular interest when the more mature student approaches one of his addresses as a piece of literature. Like most heroes of action, Washington was a man of few words; nor did he write much in his life outside the methodical keeping of diaries and accounts, the penning of ceremonious letters, and the composition of such speeches as his part in public affairs demanded of him. The style of these is uniformly concise, dignified, formal; and to read them is to enjoy a prose whose beauty lies in clearness, precision, and earnestness, rather than in rhetorical ornament or imagery. The first literary production of the boy Washington comes down to us in a letter to his playmate, Richard Henry Lee: "G. W.´s compliments to R. H. L. And likes his book full well. Henceforth will count him his friend, And hopes many happy days he may spend." There may be little there to herald a coming writer, but the four lines are eloquent of painstaking effort. No doubt the verse, according to the boy´s habits, was carefully corrected and copied before it was sent. The exercise books of his early school days, full of business forms of all kinds copied in a bold, firm hand bear witness to great exactness and orderliness: One of these contains his famous list of a hundred and ten Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. 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.
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