An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.


Oration delivered on the fourth day of July, 1835, before the citizens of Beverly, without distinction of party (ed. 1835)

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An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example,...

An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example,...

An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example,...

An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example,...