Download or read book Address Delivered at the University of Pennsylvania, Before the Society of the Alumni, on the Occasion of Their Annual Celebration, November 13th, 1851 (Classic Reprint) written by Henry D. Gilpin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Address Delivered at the University of Pennsylvania, Before the Society of the Alumni, on the Occasion of Their Annual Celebration, November 13th, 1851 Among statesmen and patriots he, to whom, in our own history, we assign with common assent, the praise of untiring and useful attention to public duty; who for half a century constantly devoted to it his intellect and his time; whose character and conduct were in all things singularly practical and industrious; is the sagacious philosopher who, amid various speculation and experiment in the regions of science, disclosed to us the phaenomena of that subtle fluid which has since become the most wonderful Of physical agents. 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.