The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, with a Critical Essay on His Genius and Writings (Classic Reprint)Excerpt from The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, With a Critical Essay on His Genius and Writings IT might appear at first sight to be an easy task to select prominent passages from the writings of any author; but in the instance of the following work, a new and Singular dith culty has presented itself to the completion of my task. As a traveller suddenly arriving at the brow of a hill, beholds the whole mighty prospect burst on his vision with dazzling beauty, and requires to collect his overpowered faculties to examine each portion'of the scenery respectively, nor then feels satisfied, because the beauty of the whole is formed by the con trast of the parts; so in the selection of the. 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. |
