The light and dark of the Rebellion [by C.E. Lester]. |
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... thousand years of deadly strife 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 ...
... thousand years of deadly strife 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 ...
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... thousand times more than we could use , we ran riot into every form of luxury and licentiousness which could tempt the appetite , exalt the pride , or inflame the am- bition of our people . Religion , with all its sublime traditions ...
... thousand times more than we could use , we ran riot into every form of luxury and licentiousness which could tempt the appetite , exalt the pride , or inflame the am- bition of our people . Religion , with all its sublime traditions ...
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... thousand of our wounded , sick , and dis- abled soldiers , —at one time hardly less than five thousand being here from my own State ( New York ) . Very few days have gone by in which I have not seen some of their sick or wounded ...
... thousand of our wounded , sick , and dis- abled soldiers , —at one time hardly less than five thousand being here from my own State ( New York ) . Very few days have gone by in which I have not seen some of their sick or wounded ...
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... THOUSAND books will be written about this Rebellion . Let them all come : the world will need them . Let every scene worth remembering be recorded by each looker - on . Let each man tell how the battle which he saw raged , —how his ...
... THOUSAND books will be written about this Rebellion . Let them all come : the world will need them . Let every scene worth remembering be recorded by each looker - on . Let each man tell how the battle which he saw raged , —how his ...
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... thousand his- torians wrote about the Decline and Fall of the Roman Em- pire , during fourteen centuries , till Gibbon constructed from the bewildering mass his imperishable work . Away into oblivion that host of authors floated ...
... thousand his- torians wrote about the Decline and Fall of the Roman Em- pire , during fourteen centuries , till Gibbon constructed from the bewildering mass his imperishable work . Away into oblivion that host of authors floated ...
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