Excerpt from A Sermon Preached June 12, 1799, Before His Honor Moses Gill, Esquire, Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief: The Honorable the Council, Senate and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts H E frailty of human life the vanity of human greatnefs; and the uncertain nature of all human events, are now prefented to us in a light the moll firiking.. The fableum-before us contains all that was mortal of one of the molt amiable and ex cellent of men, a man who was happy in his family, warmly beloved by his friends, and eleva ed by the free fufi'rages of his fellow citizens to the highefl {la tion whieh it was in their power to bellow! In the midil of his days; while the honors of the world crowded thickly upon him, and while we hoped that he might be ufeful and happy for many years to come; Death, with inexorable hand, has feized him his fun has gone down at noon, and we are now af fembled to pay our lalt refpe ts to his remains; fto confign them, with decent folemnity, to the tomb' 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.