Excerpt from A Memorial of Edward Everett: A Discourse Preached in the First Church, Dorchester, Sunday, Jan, 22, 1865 As we think of the boy, - whom there are those among us that remember, with his fair face, and curly hair, and marked intelligence as we go further back, and think of the babe, borne hither, from maternal arms, in blank unconsciousness; and then think of the man, scholar, orator, statesman, these among the world's foremost; as we think of that little brow, bared for that baptismal dew, and then wearing the wreath of a world-accorded fame; of those lips, knowing no language but the inarticulate plaint of physical unrest, and then holding crowds in breath less silence by the magic Of their speech; as we think of the infant, in his cradle, and the man, in Liberty's Cradle, lifting, with beaming intellect and glowing heart, his last public plea; and then consider the insignificant space that separates these two condi tions; that for all this unfolding those few short years were a sufficing term; that, moreover, all this is but basis and preparation for accelerated growth; the showing of the first few morning hours of a day, whose sun, for ever ascending, finds never its zenith, - What impressiveness does the conception gain of the capabilities, the greatness, of the human soul, the possibilities of its future, - the wonders of its destiny! 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.