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Excerpt from Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis, Vol. 1 These volumes comprise a selection of Mr. Curtis's chief orations and other discourses, from 1856, when he was thirty-two years old, to 1892, the year of his death. He had often been urged to prepare such a selection for the press. But his modest estimate of the worth of his work, as well as his constant laborious occupations, prevented him from doing so. In 1887 he wrote to a friend who desired him to publish them: My ad-a dresses are really ephemeral. In such matters I have, what is not very unusual, a disposition to trust my own instinct. But I shall hold the project in View, and please myself with thinking of the millennial day of leisure when I can consider and arrange them. 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.