BIOGRAPHICAL

SKETCHES

OF EMINENT

LAWYERS, STATESMEN,

AND

MEN OF LETTERS.

"Oh! who shall lightly say that FAME

Is nothing but an empty name!

When mem'ry of the mighty dead,
To earth-worn pilgrim's wistful eye
The brightest rays of cheering shed,
That point to immortality."

BY SAMUEL L. KNAPP.

BOSTON:

PUBLISHED BY RICHARDSON AND LORD.

JOHN H. A. FROST, PRINTER,

Congress Street.

1821.

DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit:

District Clerk's Office.

RE it remembered, That on the twenty-eight day of August, A. D. 1821, and in the forty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Samuel L. Knapp, of the said District, has deposited in this office the Title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit:

Biographical Sketches of eminent Lawyers, Statesmen, and Men of Letters.
"Oh! who shall lightly say that FAME

Is nothing but an empty name!

When mem'ry of the mighty dead,

To earth-worn pilgrim's wistful eye
The brightest rays of cheering shed,
That point to immortality."

BY SAMUEL L. KNAPP.

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an Act entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching Historical, and other prints."

JOHN W. DAVIS,

Clerk of the District of Massachusetts