Discourse
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Hillard, George S.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Discourse: Delivered Before the New England Society in the City of New-York, December 22, 1851 Man is a being of "large discourse, looking before and after." From this power of living in the past and the future, his essential grandeur and dignity are derived. The life of the individual is but a momentary spark; but the life of humanity is a luminous web, flowing from the bosom of God, into which the hours of every day are woven. Through memory and hope, we are born to a great inheritance of records and promises; and poor indeed is the life which feeds only on the meagre harvest of the present. It is a proud privilege to be able to break away from this "bank and shoal of time," to seek what shall be in what has been, to turn experience into prophecy, and, with retrospective glance, discern in the mirror of the Past the airy shapes of the unborn Future. The origin of our country lies in the open daylight of history. We cannot go lack to that morning twilight of tradition, from which poetry draws so many of its themes and so much of its inspiration. Such forms as Arthur and the Cid, in whom the real and the fanciful meet and blend, like the mountain and the cloud upon the distant horizon, have no place upon our soil. The simple dignity of men like Carver, and Brewster, and Winthrop, can borrow no attractions from the hues of romance. 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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