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Excerpt from A Sermon Delivered in Christ Church, Philadelphia, on Tuesday, April 20, 1841: By Request of the City Councils, at the Funeral Solemnities in Honour of the Late President of the United States
Taking the words literally, the psalr'nist employs here an hyperbole, as a strong expression of an impor tant truth the personage honoured, ' as if halting but a few hours at an 11m, continueth scarcely a night on this prominent stage of his journey he IS not there on the morro'w Man' s whole life IS but a pilgrimage, a journey without a home; and of that pilgrimage, his life in eminent station is but as a single night. And so, verily, it often appears; for time has no absolute measurement. Turn to the warrior Who fought his way to empire, and who, for some twenty years, filled the world with his expanding' fame. He fell from this eminence, and died a captive and twenty years more withdrew from him and his the effective thoughts of the World. It is only a rhetorical exaggeration then, not untruth, to say that he abode but as the night of a weary traveller amid his thickly strewed glories. So brief does time appear, when' past! Contemplate then the much fieeter course of our late President; and it is scarcely exaggeration even, to declare that he tarried but as a night in his honourable sojourn. 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.
