Excerpt from An Eulogy on the Illustrious Character of the Late General George Washington: Commander in Chief of All the Armies of the United States of America; Who Died on Saturday, the 14th of December, 1799; Delivered at Ipswich, on the 7th Day of January, 1800 The authors, of whose assistance the composer of the following Eulogy has availed himself, are Doctors Morse, Ramsey, Young and Messire Flechier. He has marked the ideas, cited from these authors in their own words, with inverted commas; but if the reader should meet with other thoughts, as probably he may, selected from the fame authors, but clothed in the composer's own language, and accomodated to his subject, he will give due credit for them to their original owners. The passages cited from the immortal Washington's writings needed nothing to distinguish them but their own superior merit. 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.