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Excerpt from A Discourse on the Death of William Henry Harrison: Late President of the United States of America, Pronounced in the Morning of April 11, 1841 The preacher frankly confesses that he is not one of those who thought the classical references in which our late President so much delighted, ill-timed or out of taste. The better writers of our language have abounded in them, and it is a matter of regret that such allusions are not more frequent. There is a gracefulness about the incidents of Greek and Roman story as they have come down to us, which adorns, while their example instructs. The charge of pedantry is easily made by those who would conceal by a sneer their own ignorance of what every well-read man should know, and their insensibility to that which every student must feel. No man understands the present, who cannot compare it with the past. 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.