Excerpt from An Address Delivered at Concord, Before the New-Hampshire Historical Society: At Their Annual Meeting, June 8, 1831 I appear at your request to discharge a duty, which no member of the Society should feel him self at liberty to _decline - the duty of not Withhold ing our efforts, however individually humble they may be, towards illustrating the natural, civil, lit erary or ecclesiastical history of our State, and by that means to manifest our approval, at least, of the important and praiseworthy purposes of its Historical Society. You cannot however be in sensible that ne'w-hampshire is peculiarly fortu nate in her Historian. All the topics, that come Within the scope of general history, have been treated With a diligence of research, a minuteness and accuracy of detail, a perspicuity, elegance and impartiality, that ought ever to endear to the People of this State the name of belknap. And 1t is a subject of sincere congratulation, that by a new edition of his work now coming from the press, under the auspices of a most deserving member of our Society, it may, as it should, find a place on the shelf of every family library in the State. Rash and fruitless would be the attempt, to enter and glean in any part of the field Which Belknap has reapt.
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