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formed by nature with faculties [excl] extraordinarily retentive,
he could accomplish , unaided more , than others with efficient
supports. For, despite his clerical duties necessarily
various and onerous in a large Congregation, the works
he produced have been numerous multifarious and extensive. Shall
I enumerate them?.... My friends! There is scarcely a religious
book of note in the United States of America, that [th] does
not [bear] bear on its title page the name of Isaac Leeser.
The prayers you offer to God, have, by his industry, been
translated in the vernacular, and elegantly printed The
Bible you read for instruction and spiritual comfort has,
by his toil, been freed from biassed interpretations, and rendered
more comprehensible . []The volumes in which your
children learn the rudiments of Hebrew knowledge, those
which inform them of the character and dogmas of their
religion, and others which unfold before their eyes the wisdom
of the ancients, are the fruits of his unwearied perseverance.
For, education was the motto inscribed on the banner he
first unfolded in the new world and unceasingly upheld[] in the new world.
He had discovered that that was the most efficacious means
to awaken his brethren to a sense of their religious duty,
and he employed it, resorted thereto, proving it[]as evinced by his personal and literary exertions.
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I cannot clearly decipher the struck-through [1 or 2] word[/s] below struck-through "proving it" and above "as evinced" -- part of the insertions above the last line of text on this page.