Address, in Commemoration of the Sixth of September, 1781

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Excerpt from Address, in Commemoration of the Sixth of September, 1781: Spoken on Groton Heights, Sept, 6, 1825 There is a tendency in our nature, to venerate what is ancient, and to wonder at what is distant. This leads us to pry into the concerns of antiquity, searching after statesmen and heroes, who, through the mist of the distance, loom up into geniuses and giants. It leads us to explore climates and countries, which we paint the more fancifully, the further they are off. The Fortunate Islands are places in the west, but where abouts in point of longitude, has never been discovered. With respect to any event in history, wherein individuals are said to have signalized themselves, by personal prowess, the older the event, and the more remote the place, we believe with more credulity, and admire with more astonishment. Those who fought at Thebes and Illium were "joined with auxlliar Gods, " and as the story goes, were, sometimes, more than a match for them. 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.