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Excerpt from Education and Literature in Virginia: An Address Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, 18 June, 1850
But, gentlemen, let us submit to the decree of the Most High, who orders all things well, however bitter the pang it may cost us. Let us take to heart, while we weep above the bier of the departed, the lesson we are so impressively taught in his early death; let us feel that Time, as he carries us along, is mindful of his scythe as well as of his glass, and let us recognize, with melancholy conviction, how fleeting and unsubstantial are the phantoms we have followed with our love. 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.
