The light and dark of the Rebellion [by C.E. Lester]. |
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... thoughts never die . They go among the eternal archives of 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 ...
... thoughts never die . They go among the eternal archives of 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 ...
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... thoughts and desires of all the brave and humane men who constructed our system of civic life . And thus we went on till 1860 , pressing our free course to wealth without limit , to prosperity beyond our own com- prehension , and to ...
... thoughts and desires of all the brave and humane men who constructed our system of civic life . And thus we went on till 1860 , pressing our free course to wealth without limit , to prosperity beyond our own com- prehension , and to ...
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... thought I would sit by his side till the surgeon came.— I took a long , free breath , for I supposed it was all hope- lessly over . Then I thought of his strange history : -I knew it well . He was born not far from Trenton Falls , -the ...
... thought I would sit by his side till the surgeon came.— I took a long , free breath , for I supposed it was all hope- lessly over . Then I thought of his strange history : -I knew it well . He was born not far from Trenton Falls , -the ...
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... thought , either he looked like an Apollino with his unstrung bow , or a nautilus , cast on the turbulent ocean , to be wafted to some unknown clime , or sink forever , on the floor of the deep sea , to find a coral sepulchre . His dark ...
... thought , either he looked like an Apollino with his unstrung bow , or a nautilus , cast on the turbulent ocean , to be wafted to some unknown clime , or sink forever , on the floor of the deep sea , to find a coral sepulchre . His dark ...
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... thought that we were approaching the spot where the greatest and purest of mankind rested from his heroism , that we felt mirth had no place in our feelings , and into that day levity could not enter . But it was a cheerful ride , and ...
... thought that we were approaching the spot where the greatest and purest of mankind rested from his heroism , that we felt mirth had no place in our feelings , and into that day levity could not enter . But it was a cheerful ride , and ...
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