EULOGY ON GENERAL WASHINGTON. 15 



country and its grateful inhabitants, will teftify that 

 they have -been accomplifhed. 



With views and occupations, fo comprehenfivc 

 and elevated, he did not lofe fight of Learning and of the 

 j4rts. " There is nothing," faid he, (in his addrcfs to 

 the firft congrefs) " that can better deferve your attentive 

 *' patronage, than the promotion of Science and Literature. 

 " Knowledge is in every country, the furefl bafis of public 

 " happinefs. In one, in which the meafures of government 

 *' receive their impreffion fo immediately from the fcnfe of 

 " the community, it is proportionably effential.'* To the 

 Truftees and Faculty of the Univerfity of Pennfyl 



in reply to their refpedful addrefs, he acknowledges 



himfelf gratified z'n being considered, hy the patrons 

 literature, as one of their numher ; being fully apprized 



the irfuence which sound learning has on religion and 

 manners, on government, liberty and laws ; and exprefllng ^ 



his confidence that the same unremitting exertions, -which 

 under all the blasting storms of war, caused the arts and 

 sciences to flourish in America, would . bring them nearer to 

 maturity, when i?wrgorated by the milder rays of peace. ^ To 

 the Univerfity of Harvard, he communicates his sincere ^ 

 satisfaction in learning the flourishing state of their literary^ 

 republic. Unacquainted, he adds, with the expr ^ 



sentiments which I do not feel, you will do me justice in 

 hlieving, confidently, in my disposition to promote the inte^ 

 rests of science and true religion. 



His clofing addrefs to Congrefs is enriched with 

 like paternal fentiments J and at a more folemn moment, 



when completing the laft arrangement of his terreftrial 



