An Address Delivered Before the Readfield Temperance Society
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Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Readfield Temperance Society: At Their First Anniversary, July 4, 1832 I do not appear before you, this day, at my own solicitation or request. Had I seized my pen to beguile the hours that were hanging heavily on my bands, another subject would have claimed my attention - one on which the mind could have lingered with emotions of pleasure, and which would have presented the fancy with some images beside those of woe. Had the love of display been the predominant feeling of my mind, I would also, in that case, have sought out for the occasion another subject than that which we now propose to discuss. In the drama of life, whatever may he the sentiment of the misanthrope, there is now and then acted a scene of pleasantness. The mind recurs back with feelings of the highest satisfaction, and in the contemplation of them, there springs up in the bosom a feeling of playful delight, whether the imagination rests on the plot of the scene, or the actors by whom it has been presented. Many of the scenes connected with the day we now celebrate are of this description. To others, however, we leave the pleasant task of numbering them over, and of joining their voices in mutual gratulation. We have assumed to ourselves a graver task; and the scenes which we associate with the object of our present assembling together, have no affinity to these. The feeling of romantic gayety, or self-complacent pride, caw here find no place on which to rest. Intemperance is an unwelcome theme. 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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