Author : C. A. Bartol
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1331698642
Webster as Man and Statesman (Classic Reprint) by C. A. Bartol Pdf
Excerpt from Webster as Man and Statesman "If a matter arise too hard for thee betwixt plea and plea, thou shalt come unto the judge." - Deuteronomy xvii., 8, 9. Most of us are tried on the spot and at the moment in our own day and generation, we having, in our bubble-like being on earth, a domestic and possibly biographic, but no historic significance, only melting into the immense sea of humanity or general mass of mankind. But there are mountainous men, rare as the peaks of the Alps or the Andes, - Moses, - Socrates, Caesar, Bonaparte, - ever standing at the bar of the human mind; and, among ringing celebrations and contradictions, the image formed of any one and all of these giants of genius and power concerns the virtue of every individual, so that I need no apology for my attempt at an estimate in the pulpit of the claim to honor and imitation of an extraordinary man of the West, one of the chief Americans, since Benjamin Franklin in the civil sphere, New England's most distinguished son, of a permanent fame whose quality it may take some ages still of reflection to decide, yet our opinion of whom has an interest for our character now, and to whom the Scripture figure of a tribunal of judgment to appeal to is appropriate on account of the diverse and opposite pleas, one against him, another in his behalf, there never having been a case in a public career in these United States of a person in which plaintiif and defendant alike more required a judge. It is thought by some that judgment is not to be had or is an impertinence and offence on the part of us little and connnon people for transcendent men. 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."
