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Excerpt from Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-Third President of the United States: A Complete Collection of His Public Addresses From February, 1888, to February, 1892
T is not the purpose of this book to present a few selec tions of oratory, laboriously prepared and polished, or occasional flashes of brilliant thought. From such efiorts, prepared, perhaps, after days of study and repeated revi sion, one can form but an imperfect idea of their author. Such a compilation might show the highest conceptions of the man, and evidence a wide range of thought and a sur passing grandeur of expression; but it would be but a poor mirror of the man himself in his daily life.
It is due to the people that the largest opportunity be given them to observe the character of their public ser vants, to come into closest touch with their daily thoughts, and to know them as they are - not when prepared for Special occasions, but day after day and all the time. It is with this view that this collection of the Speeches of President Harrison is offered to the public. It is a series of instantaneous photographs that have caught him un awares. The studied pose is wanting, but the pictures are true to life.
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