Historical Sketch of John Phillips

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Historical Sketch of John Phillips is written by Geo E. Street and published by Forgotten Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0267509901 (ISBN 10) and 9780267509904 (ISBN 13).

Excerpt from Historical Sketch of John Phillips: A Baccalaureate Discourse One has to think, too, of the public spirit that man displayed who digged this well; of the good far beyond what he sought has flowed from it to successive generations, so as to make this his most fitting monument. For, after all, every man builds his own monument, rather than posterity for him. Some, in deed, like children playing upon the shore, write their names on the sand to be obliterated by the returning tide; the next generation forgets them. Others, with a clearer, deeper wisdom, write theirs upon the souls they have blessed, the institutions of charity they have founded, - monuments more imperishable than brass. 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.