A Discourse Delivered At Schenectady July 22d a D 1823 Before the New York
A Discourse Delivered At Schenectady July 22d a D 1823 Before the New York
Dewitt Clinton
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The monuments of the arts the fabrics of genius and skill, and the sublime erections of piety and science, have been prostra- ted in the dust ; and the places where Demosthe- nes and Cicero spoke, where Homer and Virgil sang, and where Plato and Aristotle taught, are now exhibited as mementos of the perishable na- ture of human glory. The forum of Rome is con- verted into a market for cattle :* The sacred fountain of Castalia is surrounded, not by the muses and the graces, but by the semi-barba...rous girls of Albania :f The laurel groves, and the de- ified heights of Parnassus, are the asylum of ban- ditti : Babylon can only be traced by its bricks : The sands of the desert have overwhelmed the splendid city of Palmyra, and are daily encroach- ing on the fertile territories of the Nile ; and the Malaria has driven man from the fairest portions of Italy, and pursued him to the very gates of the Eternal City. Considerations like these announce to us in the most impressive manner, the importance of our po- sition in the civilized world, and the necessity of maintaining it.
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