Excerpt from Attractions of Language, or a Popular View of Natural Language, in All Its Varied Displays, in the Animate and the Inanimate World: And as Corresponding With Instinct, Intelligence and Reason
In this connection, I may be allowed to mention the name of rufus tiffany, of Michigan; the grateful recollection Of whose faithful friendship and efficient aid in the gloomy hour Of illness and disappointment, no distance can absolve, no time obliterate, till Memory's tablets shall be broken, and Gratitude's fountain dried up.
Somebody has said, thata preface is to the reader, what the: desert was to the Israelites. I cannot help thinking how nu happy the pilgrim's lot, when, after a dreary sojourn in the prefatory wilderness, no promised land appears to bless his eyes, and while I think, I lay down my pen and stop.
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