Death in the Palace a Sermon in Memory of Edward Everett
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Never has the republic been more nobly represented. On his return to this country in 1845, he was elected President of Harvard College, the institution of which he had been, as a pupil and as a professor, the pride. It is no disparagement to him to allow that this, of all the positions which he filled, was the one in which he was least successful. The reason for it was honorable to him. His mind, high-toned by nature, refined by culture, long accus- tomed to the courtliness of the finest societ...y in the world, and the dignity of diplomatic circles, could not adapt itself to the management of young men in that half-fledged state, — when they have ceased to be boys, and have not yet learned to be gentlemen. In 1852, he was appointed Secretary of State by Presi- dent Fillmore, in place of the lamented Webster. No ordinary man, following in the tracks of such a predecessor, and especially in the short time that remained to the Fill- more administration, could have won for himself any envi- able distinction ; but Mr.
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