The light and dark of the Rebellion [by C.E. Lester]. |
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... - bition of our people . Religion , with all its sublime traditions , and all its holy beck- onings to the better life we could lead , had lost much of its magic power over the great masses , —over the young OF THE REBELLION . 9.
... - bition of our people . Religion , with all its sublime traditions , and all its holy beck- onings to the better life we could lead , had lost much of its magic power over the great masses , —over the young OF THE REBELLION . 9.
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... lost . We had attempted an impossibility . We had tried to make Liberty and Slavery live together in the same soil . While the free North was prospering , we had allowed the enslaved to be immolated . While we could flourish under the ...
... lost . We had attempted an impossibility . We had tried to make Liberty and Slavery live together in the same soil . While the free North was prospering , we had allowed the enslaved to be immolated . While we could flourish under the ...
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... lost . For we must not forget - least of all should the men who hold the pen- that , while we are straining our vision with these strange sights , we become the sacred depositaries of materials from which the artists of a later age will ...
... lost . For we must not forget - least of all should the men who hold the pen- that , while we are straining our vision with these strange sights , we become the sacred depositaries of materials from which the artists of a later age will ...
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... lost . It was a long stretch of Time's river in its sluggish passages . But it bore on its bosom the slowly accu- mulating records of the centuries , and they poured their treasures into Gibbon's hands . He saved them forever . **** IV ...
... lost . It was a long stretch of Time's river in its sluggish passages . But it bore on its bosom the slowly accu- mulating records of the centuries , and they poured their treasures into Gibbon's hands . He saved them forever . **** IV ...
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... lost is oftener found ; any thing stolen is oftener returned . Such a chaplain can call every man by name . the history of every man , and every man honors and loves him . He makes him , in the best acceptation of the term , his ...
... lost is oftener found ; any thing stolen is oftener returned . Such a chaplain can call every man by name . the history of every man , and every man honors and loves him . He makes him , in the best acceptation of the term , his ...
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