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Excerpt from A Discourse on the Life and Services of the Late Gulian Crommelin Verplanck, LL. D: Delivered Before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, on the Evening of May 5, 1870 <p>In November. 1833. He delivered an Introductory Lecture to a course of Scientific Lec tures. Before the Mechanics' Institute of the City of New York. While in the preceeding August he had discoursed on The Right Moral Inuence. And Use of Liberal Studies. At the commencement of Geneva College. The next year on a similar occasion at Amherst College. He spoke on The Inuence of Moral Causes upon Opinions. Science and Litera ture. In the course of which after alluding to his descent from the stock of Grotius and De Witt. He remarks: I cannot but remember also that I have New England blood in my veins. That many of my happiest youthful days were passed in her villages. And that my best education was bestowed by the more than parental eare of one of the wisest and most excellent of her sons; here referring of course to his maternal grandfather. William Samuel Johnson. His last college address was made in 1836. When he delivered his masterly and celebrated dis course at Union College on The Advantages and Dangers of the American Scholar. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.