Excerpt from A Sermon on the Death of General Harrison: Delivered in Middlebury, Vermont, on the Day of the National Fast Death is no respecter of persons. Helpless infancy and ripe old age, the President in his chair of state and the slave in his lowly dwelling, are alike exposed to the unerring shafts of the destroyer. And what power in Death to calm the angry surges of political strife, and to teach us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue. How solemnly and for cibly does he impress upon our hearts, the instability of all earthly greatness, the uncertainty of human calculations and the folly of earth-born ambition. With one fatal stroke, he quiets the tempests of human passion and puts to slumber the animosities of the heart. 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.