Francis Vergnies Balch
Published: 2018-01-12
Total Pages: 50
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Excerpt from An Oration Delivered Before the Class of 1859, June 24, 1859 The pleasures of hope and the pleasures of memory ought to have been written by the same person. To the child, Hope is all in all she is not half, but wholly covered with flowers, and she looks with full expectant face toward the future. As the child becomes a boy, the boy. A man, Hope turns sometimes to watch some object that she has longed for and loved, as it glides past her, by her far into the distance, and then we call her memory. 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.