Excerpt from Memoir of Daniel Appleton White He mentions also the funeral of a young married friend not long after wards, - a great favorite of his on account of her beauty, and kindness to him, which affected him deeply. With characteristic candor, he says, The excite ment and sympathy felt on these solemn occasions afi'orded me, I suppose, some thing of the sort of pleasure derived from witnessing the pathetic scenes of a tragedy; and this may in part account for my desire to attend them. But he truly adds, It was doubtless owing in part to their being in accordance with my religious feelings. 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.