An Oration Commemorative of the Late Rev. John Holt Rice, D. D Spoken Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Hampden Sydney College, at Their Anniversary Meeting, on Thursday the 27th of September, A. D. 1832 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Oration Commemorative of the Late Rev. John Holt Rice, D. D: Spoken Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Hampden Sydney College, at Their Anniversary Meeting, on Thursday the 27th of September, A. D. 1832 At Malvern Hills, our young teacher continued to re side for about a year, giving great satisfaction to his host by his attention to his duty, and endearing himself to all the family by his amiable deportment. At the end Of this time, however, he (set out to visit his father and friends in Bed ford; and, ascendn the river in an Open boat, and exposing himself to the sun by the way, be contracted a dangerous sickness, and reached home only to be seized with a violent fever which confined him to his bed for several months. On recovering at length from this attack, he happened to see, by an advertisement in a newspaper, that the trustees of our college here were in want of a tutor, and resolving to Offer himself for the place, came down at once, on foot, to this spot. 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.