A Sermon
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Excerpt from A Sermon: Preached in the Chapel of Harvard College to the Graduating Class of 1874 The inscription over the cross was written in these languages, as representing the three cosmopolitan nationalities of the time, - the Jews, most numerous, indeed, in their own metropolis, yet swarming everywhere; the Greeks, their states conquered and dismembered, themselves - whether as slaves or adventurers - carrying their arts, humanities, and vices through the whole extent of Southern Europe and Western Asia; the Romans, in civil and military occupancy of all important posts in the civilized world. These languages were and are typical of the nations that employed them, - emblematic of their several styles of culture: the Hebrew, though harsh, sonorous; though rude, grand; though meagre, lending fit utterance for the loftiest thought and feeling; - the Greek, the counterpart to the ear of the fairest scenes on which human eye has ever rested; the Latin, terse, rigid, and intense, with no loose joints or feeble idioms. Thus we have the Hebrew people pre-eminently religious; even when idolatrous, in sad earnest; and, except in those early episodes of false worship, loyal to the God of their fathers as no other nation has ever been; the Greeks, in art, taste, and elegant culture unequalled in their own time, unsurpassed in all time; the Romans, until foreign grafts outgrew the native stock, law-giving, because law-abiding; conquerors, because self-mastered; kingly, because loyal. 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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