An Address Delivered Before the Licivyronean Society of William and Mary College, 15th May 1847
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Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Licivyronean Society of William and Mary College, 15th May 1847: The Anniversary of the Political Independence of Virginia Gentlemen of the Licivyronean Society: In accepting the call which your courtesy and kindness have made upon me, I would be doing injustice to my own deep sense of the obligations which it imposes, did I not make at least the poor return of my gratitude and thanks for a compliment both undeserved and unexpected. When I look to the roll of our venerable College, and behold it studded with names "innumerable and bright" of living alumni distinguished for learning, eloquence and worth - when, too, I remember that many of them proudly claim, as I do, membership in your Society, it is, 1 assure you, with sincere distrust and unaffected embarrassment, that I enter upon the performance of duties, which might with so much propriety have been assigned to some older and abler brother. But gentlemen, it is not alone the chilling consciousness of inability on my part to do full justice to the majestic theme which this day recalls, that now saddens my heart and renders my tongue tremulous with emotion. After years of separation - years of toil and struggle upon the busy stage of active and restless manhood, I find myself once more surrounded by scenes, familiar as the face of some old friend, and dear "as the memory of buried love." Recollections which the tramp of the world may have deadened for a time, but which inseparably associated with the well remembered haunts of earlier years, needed but their magic presence to revive them, now come over the heart in full and gushing tenderness, recalling those happy meetings with beloved companions, who "made the starlight of my boyhood." 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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