An Address Delivered At New Haven Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society September
An Address Delivered At New Haven Before the Phi Beta Kappa Society September
James Kent
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It will be honored by three hundred millions of people, for that is the number which, it is computed, * will in some future age occupy the wide space of territory, stretch- ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, and from the Torrid to the Arctic Regions. The American Dic- tionary of the English Language, is a work of pro- found investigation, and does infinite honor to the phi- * See Preface to Webster's Dictionary* 35 lological learning and general literature of this country* Happy the ma...n who can thus honorably identify his name with the existence of our vernacular tongue. There is no other way in which mortal man could more effectually secure immortality beneath the skies. Obe- lisks, arches and triumphal monuments, seem to be as transient as the bubble of military reputation. No work of art can withstand the incessant strokes of time- The unrivalled Parthenon, glowing in polished marble* and which, for more than two thousand years continu- ed from the summit of the citadel of Athens, to cast its broad splendors across the plains below, and along the coasts and headlands of Attica, is now crumbling to ru- ins, after being despoiled of its most exquisite materials by savage war and heartless man.
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