Download or read book An Oration Delivered in Salem, July 4, 1826, at the Request of the Town, on the Completion of a Half Century Since the Declaration of American Independence (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Colman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Oration Delivered in Salem, July 4, 1826, at the Request of the Town, on the Completion of a Half Century Since the Declaration of American Independence There is a wonderful sublimity in nature; but there is a moral sublimity in human history still more affect ing. The lofty mountain, pillaring the arch of heaven; the majestic river, bursting from the unsearched forest, and traversing a continent in its resistless march the boundless ocean, swelling and frowning in its anger; the volcano, shooting up its flames upon the darkness of midnight, and pouring down its sides its torrents of liquid fire; the immeasurable expanse of heaven, peopled with worlds, that no imagination can number, are objects which overwhelm the mind. 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.