Excerpt from Addresses and Orations of Rufus Choate But, I confess, I should love to see it assume a form in which it Should speak directly to the heart and affec tions and imagination Of the Whole people. I should love to see by the side of these formidable records of dates, and catalogues of British Governors, and Provin cial acts of Assembly, - these registers of the settle ment of towns, and the planting of churches, and convocation of synods, and drawing up of platforms, by the side of these austere and simply severe narratives of Indian wars, English usurpations, French intrigues, Colonial risings, and American independence - I should love to see by the side of these great and good books about a thousand neat duodecimos of the size of Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, and Marmion, all full of pictures of our natural beauty and grandeur, the still richer pictures of our society and manners, the lights and shadows of our life, - full of touching incidents, generous sentiments, just thoughts, beaming images, such as are scattered over every thing which Scott has written, as thick as stars on the brow of night, and give to every thing he has written that imperishable, strange charm, which will be on it and embalm it for ever. 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.