Excerpt from An Address: Delivered at the Anniversary of the Freehold Young Ladies' Seminary; Freehold, N. J., July 20, 1853Young Ladies of the Freehold Seminary:It is very natural that we should desire to shun, on such an occasion as this, every thing trite and hackneyed. The great subject of Education, - its principles, developments, and results, as well as its importance to the female sex, - is an exhausted field, and offers no fresh laurels. It is proposed, therefore, to choose a theme at once suitable to your years and studies, agreeable to a promiscuous audience, and instructive to all. Such a theme presents itself in The Study of History.History has ever, and deservedly, held a high place in the estimation of mankind. Of the daughters of Memory, Clio, the eldest born, has not been least honored. To her have appertained the birth-right, and the double portion. In the anaglyphs of Egypt, the arrow-heads of Nineveh, and the picture writings of the Aztecs, we discern the labors of the never-absent annalist. Of the Sacred Scriptures, revered by us as traced under the superintendence of a hand from heaven, a third part are historical.The uncertainty of History has sometimes indeed been objected against this branch of knowledge. We are told that while Sir Walter Raleigh was preparing his History of the World, he saw a fray from his window; and mixing afterwards with some of the spectators, he was amazed at the discrepancy of their accounts, accounts varying from each other not only, but totally irreconcileable with the facts as they had appeared to himself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.