Synopsis
Excerpt from Maclay Memorial: Sketching the Lineage, Life and Obsequies of Hon. William B. Maclay
But this sketch of William B. Maclay is not a biography in that sense; it is rather a memorial of his laudable deeds and virtues, made to honor his memory, to comfort surviving friends. And to impress upon rising generations an example of life worthy of their imitation. If, therefore, this sketch should strike any one, as too laudatory for a biography, it may be taken as a eulogy or panegyric, in which animadversion is not requisite, and the highest encomium is becoming, so long as it does not exceed the merits of the subject. And his readers may rest assured, that, the author, while aiming to extol, in no stinted measure, whatever was praiseworthy, has been careful to avoid all exaggeration, and to keep within the limits of truth and justice.
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