Excerpt from An Address, Delivered Before the Mercantile Library Company of Philadelphia, May 11, 1841 Resolved, That the thanks of the Board of Directors on behalf of the Mercantile Library Company of Philadelphia, be presented to Dr. William E. Channing for his very appropriate, instructive, and eloquent Address, delivered before the Company last evening; and that a copy thereof be requested for publication. Resolved, That Isaac Barton, John Fausset, and Henry C. Corbit be a committee to communicate to Dr. Charming the foregoing resolution. 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.