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Excerpt from An Eulogium, Intended to Perpetuate the Memory of David Rittenhouse, Late President of the American Philosophical Society: Delivered Before the Society in the First Presbyterian Church, in High-Street, Philadelphia, on the 17th Dec. 1796
The amiable philofopher whofe talents and virtues are to be the fubjeé't of the following eulogium, is entitled to an uncommon portion of our gratitude and praife. He acquired his knowledge at the expence of uncommon exer tions, he performed fervices of uncommon dif ficulty, and finally be impaired his health, and probably fhortened his life, by the ardor of his fiudies and labors for the benefit of mankind.
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