The light and dark of the Rebellion [by C.E. Lester]. |
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... human race had been going through , in approaching Liberty as the road to God , --- the shrine where all nations are yet to worship . The records of human defeats , sufferings , and triumphs , show little more than the heroism of the ...
... human race had been going through , in approaching Liberty as the road to God , --- the shrine where all nations are yet to worship . The records of human defeats , sufferings , and triumphs , show little more than the heroism of the ...
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... human hope and security , to which the treasures of successive ages are committed . In the literature and arts of the ancients , we have most of the finest thoughts of the finest minds , -the chief records of the noblest deeds of the ...
... human hope and security , to which the treasures of successive ages are committed . In the literature and arts of the ancients , we have most of the finest thoughts of the finest minds , -the chief records of the noblest deeds of the ...
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... Human Servitude in its place . We had prostituted to the basest purpose the great gift bestowed on us so lavishly ; and in the merciless greed for gain , when we already had a thousand times more than we could use , we ran riot into ...
... Human Servitude in its place . We had prostituted to the basest purpose the great gift bestowed on us so lavishly ; and in the merciless greed for gain , when we already had a thousand times more than we could use , we ran riot into ...
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... human devotion ; and to them the men of after - times go , as to sacred shrines , to pay their tributes of admiration and gratitude . But , while these proud names make their undis- puted way down through the centuries , the great ...
... human devotion ; and to them the men of after - times go , as to sacred shrines , to pay their tributes of admiration and gratitude . But , while these proud names make their undis- puted way down through the centuries , the great ...
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... humanity of science ; and especially in the Crimea did the results place the whole world under obligation . With all the advantages of their experiments and demonstrations , our country was enabled to advance the sanitary military ...
... humanity of science ; and especially in the Crimea did the results place the whole world under obligation . With all the advantages of their experiments and demonstrations , our country was enabled to advance the sanitary military ...
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