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EULOGY ON GENERAL WASHINGTON. 



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Thus fang the Grecian Bard, to footh the fliade of a 

 Hero : with like afFedionate reverence, with pious fenfi- 

 bihties, do w^e cherifh thy memory, departed Wasuington^ 

 and pay repeated viiits to thy Tomb. 



In contemplating a life, whofe maturer portion was 



fo fingularly fplendent, we are naturally prompted to look 

 back to its commencement. Correfponding to that con- 

 iiftency of chara'fler, by which he was diflinguifhed, 

 marks of fuperiority are imprinted on the very tlirefhold 

 of his days. 



I 



the 



early dawn of manhood', delic 

 portant public duties were committed to his ch 



appeared fome of thofe heroic virtues, that 



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Then 



prefaged 



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greatnefs. UnHiaken fortitude, firm perfeveran 



on. Behold the intrepid meifenger p 



and found difcretion. 



fuing his weary way through a pathlefs wildernefs 



The 



affaults of the favage do not intimidate him 



the fev 



ties of winter do not arreft his progrefs. He returns 



in fafety and in honor 



his way with thorns : thgugh the 



had well nigh extin 



Gall 



fice ftrewed 



of 



Allegany 



fhed his valued life, when 



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petuous current rolled over his youthful head 



Man 



then, as in all thy 



the 



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Illuftric 

 fatisfadi 



refulting from a faithful difcharge of duty, was thy fuffi 

 cient, thy beft' reward : but how might it have cheered 



thy exalted 



to have known, that far beyond the 



of thy long and arduous journey fhould extend 



* See his JouRNALi publifliedin the Maffdchufetts Magazine, 1789 



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