EULOGY ON GENERAL WASHINGTON. 



If 



purfuits of Science, undifmayed by the thunder and 



liorm, by which you were afTailed 



Th 



Iterary eftab 



fhment was a child of the revohition. Europe beheld 

 : with admiration. The friends of America contemplated 

 : with delight. They confidered it as affording renewed 



dence 



that 



you 



were 



folved on the attainment of 



Freedom, and were worthy of its enjoyment. 



The illuftrious Man, whofelofs we now depl 

 among the firfl: of your eleded afTociates 

 of multiplied calamities. 



was 



It was a time 



The military operations of the 



enemy 

 union. 



be oppofed in fi 



different fl 



of the 



A mind occuoied with fuch immenfe 



Id not be expeded to apply itfelf 



th 



mmed 



/ 



obje^^s of your inflitution. 

 looking forward, doubtlefs 



Yet he accepts your 



to- th 



happ 



day 



wh 



the arts of peace Ihould fucceed the horrors of war 

 the firfl among the public charaflers 



of the 

 he was 



g^ 



As 



s the 



d to 



pride and defence of your country, 

 the earliefl and moft refpedful expreffions of your atten- 

 tion : but he was your afTociate by flill more appropriate 

 eharaders, by difpofitions and accomplifhments, altogether 



genial to the 



and end of your infl 



It 



examine 



3 among the declared objeds of your mquiry, to 

 the various foils of the country, to afcertain 



their natural growths and the different methods of cul- 

 ture : to promote and encourage ag 

 ufadures and commerce : to cultiva 

 the natural hiftory of the country 



the knowledge 

 and to determ 



mai!^ 

 of 



the ufes, to which 

 piied. 



various production 



may 



be 



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