Excerpt from A Discourse, Delivered at New-Haven, Feb; 22, 1800: On the Character of George Washington, Esq. At the Request of the Citizens To fome perfon, however, the tafk, afligned to me, mufl have fallen 5 and to none could it have fallen without anxiety. I have ventured upon it, with an intention to perform a duty, not with a hope to fulfil expectation. Funeral panegyric I have always fhunned; and would more willingly have avoided it on this occafion, than on any other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.