A Plea for Study: An Oration Before the Literary Societies of Yale College, August 19, 1845 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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These doubts have a melancholy answer from the past; for by far the greatest part of those, whose advantages should have made them lights to man kind, shining brighter and brighter, are lost in dis graceful Obscurity, become slaves of the mine, mere delvers after gain, or drag their way through life mortally tainted with sloth, the leprosy of soul.
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