Excerpt from Don Quixots at College, or a History of the Gallant Adventures: Lately Achieved by the Combined Students of Harvard University; Interspersed With Some Facetious Reasonings
TO unfold the origin, and describe the progress and termination of those mighty revolutions which have taken place upon the earth, has been an employment fully equal to the greatest men. The description of those elevated characters, who, in times of commotion, rise up and take upon themselves the guidance of their feeble fellow mortals; the investigation of their mo tives, the explaining of their dexterous sagacity; and almost unfathomable depths of design, isa task worthy the highest native genius, matured by the most per fect education. For our own part, conscious of our deficiency in both these respects, and recollecting the peculiar dignity’and native grandeur, which the event we are about to describe, derive both fi’om the enor mous abilities and high station of the actors, and from the all important object which these heroes have with such splendid exertions, and unshaken firmness endeavoured to attain, we feel overwhelmed with an awe and diflidenoe on entering upon the present la: hours, which nothing but our veneration for those en gaged in the late exemplary and dignified tumults at Harvard University, and our ardent desire to exhibit, for imitation, their deathless and noble’deeds, could have overcome so far as to enable us to hold our pet) with a steady hand.
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