Excerpt from An Address Delivered at the Opening of the Brooklyn Female Academy: On Monday Evening, May 4, 1846 It is due to candour to say that the invita tion with which I have been honoured to address you this evening, has proved a source of some embarrassment to me; and that for two reasons. The one is, that I have found it difficult to justify it to my own sense of propriety, that an occasion which belongs so peculiarly to this immediate community, should be put into the hands of a stranger; especially when there are so many in the midst of you, who are, in every respect, better qualified to meet its claims: but I have allowed myself to dispose of this on the ground that there is, or should be, a com munity of interest - ea universal fellowship. 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.