Download or read book Selections from Addresses and Writings (Classic Reprint) written by Richard Chappell Parsons and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-23 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Selections From Addresses and Writings In this age of luxury. Extravagance and wealth. With the iron-horse rushing by our dwellings. Making neigh bors of those separated by a continent; with the tele graph putting a girdle 'round the earth in forty seconds, enabling men to converse with each other though widely sundered as the poles. The very word pioneer awakens a sensation in our bosoms like gazing upon the ruins Of a bygone age. 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.