Excerpt from Addresses on Various Occasions Neither the handwriting nor the English of these manu scripts is such as can be duplicated often in this busy age, When the tendency is to ignore the sources of modern lan guage in the usual educational courses. Written on topics of the day, and often for addresses on particular occasions, both topics and occasions now almost passed out of mind, only those who remember the circum stances, or who are particularly interested in local history, will thoroughly appreciate many allusions in these papers. Nevertheless, some may care for them on their literary merit, and as relics of a period of more studious and careful writing than is usual, or perhaps possible, now, when rapid thought, rapid execution, the shorthand report and the typewritten manuscript are the roads to success in literature, as well as in every other calling. 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.