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the highest honors in 1811. In 1812 he was appointed Latin tutor at 

 the University. Meanwhile he had devoted himself to the study of 

 Divinity, and in 1813 he was installed as pastor of Brattle Street 

 Church in Boston. In 1815 he was elected Professor of the Greek 

 Language and Literature at Cambridge, and soon afterwards embarked 

 for Europe to prepare himself, by study in Germany, and by travels in 

 Greece and other parts of the Old World, for the duties of this Profes- 

 sorship. He had hardly entered on his twenty-first year when he was 

 thus called to quit the clerical profession ; but he had already won the 

 highest reputation as a pulpit orator, and in 1815 had published an 

 elaborate defence of Christianity, in a volume of five hundred pages, 

 which would have done no discredit to the most mature theologian of 

 the time. 



Returning from Europe in 1819, he proceeded at once to the dis- 

 charge of his duties as Greek Professor in Harvard University, where 

 he acquired fresh distinction both as an orator and a scholar by his bril- 

 liant lectures on Greek literature. He found time also to publish a 

 Greek Grammar translated by himself from the German of Buttmann, 

 and a Greek Reader based upon that of Jacobs. In 1820, while still 

 holding this Professorship, he assumed the editorial charge of the North 

 American Review, to whose pages during the four following years he 

 contributed about fifty articles. Fifty or sixty articles were contrib- 

 uted by him to the same Review in subsequent years after he had 

 ceased to be its editor. 



In 1824, Mr. Everett was chosen a Representative from the Middle- 

 sex District in the Congress of the United States, and continued to 

 serve his fellow-citizens in that capacity for more than ten years. His 

 eloquent speeches on almost all the great political questions of that pe- 

 riod, and his able reports as chairman of the Committee of Foreign 

 Affairs, would have been enough to secure him a permanent national 

 reputation, had this been his only sphere of public service. 



In 1835, Mr. Everett was elected Governor of Massachusetts, and 

 held that office with great dignity and distinction for four years. Fail- 

 ing of a re-election by only one vote, he embarked lor Europe in 1840 

 with a view to his own health and that of his family, and not without 

 plans of literary labor which he hoped to accomplish in Italy. There 

 is the best reason for thinking that " Rome in the Times of Cicero " 

 was the subject of a work which he had proposed as the occupation of 

 the period of his residence abroad. But public employment was again 



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