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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D., by Brantz Mayer This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D. Author: Brantz Mayer Release Date: April 22, 2010 [eBook #32089] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MEMOIR OF JARED SPARKS, LL.D.*** E-text prepared by Julia Miller, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 32089-h.htm or 32089-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32089/32089-h/32089-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32089/32089-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/memoirofjaredspa00mayeiala MEMOIR OF JARED SPARKS, LL.D. by BRANTZ MAYER. President of the Maryland Historical Society: [Illustration: Jared Sparks _Anno Aetatis XL._] [Illustration] Prepared at the Request of the Society, and Read Before Its Annual Meeting, on Thursday Evening, February 7, 1867. Printed for the Maryland Historical Society, by John Murphy. Baltimore, 1867. MEMOIR. IT has been a sad but not entirely unpleasant duty to prepare, at the request of the Maryland Historical Society, a brief memoir of one of our earliest and most distinguished Honorary Members, the late JARED SPARKS, LL.D. The duty, though sad, is not without a pleasant recompense, for the eulogium which a long-continued friendship and intercourse demand can be bestowed with cordial truth. Mr. Sparks was what we call, in America, a self-made man. Although his life is a fair illustration of what an industrious person of talent and common sense may compass by decision of character and a high aim, my object in these observations is not to draw from his biography what has been aptly called "ostentatious precepts and imp
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