A Selection of Eulogies; Pronounced in the Several States, in Honor of Those Illustrious Patriots and Statesmen, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ... retirement at Monticello. But unlike the politicians of other days, who had fled from the cares and anxieties of public life, that retirement was not inglorious. He still lived for his country and the world. Let that beautiful building devoted to the sciences, the last of his labors, reared under his auspices and cherished by his care, testify to this. How choice and how delightful this the, last fruit of his bearing!--How lasting a monument will it be to his memory! It will be, we may fondly hope, the perpetual nursery of those great principles which it was the businesss of his life to inculcate. The youth of Virginia and the youth of our sister states, to use his own beautiful language, "will bring hither their genius to be kindled at our fire." "The good old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all, will then raise her head with pride among the nations." When history shall at some future day, come to draw his character, to what department shall she assign him? Shall she encircle his brow with the wreath of civic worth; or shall Philosophy weave a garland of her own? He is equal ly dear to all the sciences. In mournful procession they have repaired to the tomb where his mortal remains are inurned and hallowed the spot. Yes, hallowed be the spot where he rests from his labors. Wave after wave may roll by, sweeping in its resistless course countless generations from the face of the earth, yet shall the resting place of Jefferson be hallowed. Like Mount Vernon, Monticello shall catch the eye of the way-farer and arrest his course.---There shall he draw the inspirations of liberty, and learn those great truths which nature destined him to know. Is not then this man's life most beautifully consistent? Trace him from the period of his earliest...