Opis: Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Lyceum (Classic Reprint) - McCaleb Theodore Howard

Excerpt from Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Lyceum

Ladies and Gentlemen,

There are considerations operating upon my mind, which render me reluctant to appear before you, in the discharge of the duty assigned me by the too flattering resolution of the Council of the Second Municipality of New Orleans. Could I have felt myself at liberty to yield to these considerations, you would this evening have enjoyed the satisfaction of listening to some one far more competent to the duty of spreading before you an intellectual repast. While I feel all the humility of one conscious of inability to array a literary topic in a garb to render it attractive, candor compels me to declare my apprehensions of another obstacle, which, he who attempts to engage the attention of an audience in the city of New Orleans on the subject of literature, is but too apt to encounter. With no desire to assume the office of Censor, and certainly with no disposition-to play the flatterer, "I speak with the freedom of history, and I hope without offence," when I declare, that the citizens of this our boasted Southern Emporium, have rarely, very rarely indeed, subjected themselves to the imputation of being too enthusiastic in the cause of letters. It is indeed the commonly received opinion, that there is no large commercial city in the Union so coldly indifferent to the means and measures usually resorted to, for the promotion of literary and scientific objects.

The consciousness of this almost universal indifference in the public mind to the cause of letters, weighs like an incubus on the hearts, and paralizes the efforts of those, who, warm in their devotion to the intellectually great and beautiful, would lend their aid in imparting to the city of their home, those tastes and sympathies, which have rendered other cities renowned in story and in song.

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Szczegóły: Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Lyceum (Classic Reprint) - McCaleb Theodore Howard

Nazwa: Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Lyceum (Classic Reprint)
Autor: McCaleb Theodore Howard
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330177389
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 40
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Lyceum (Classic Reprint) - McCaleb Theodore Howard