A Fleece of Gold; Five Lessons From the Fable of Jason And the Golden Fleece
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Withsublime patriotism they arose to the occasion in defense of their rights, and historians allude to the inspiring event as the opening scene in theRevolution. And when, by a stroke of diplomacy, Thomas Jefferson purchased fromNapoleon Bonaparte the Louisiana Territory, one million square miles, or over six hundred millions of acres, for two cents and a half anacre, an opportunity was seized whose benefit to the American Nation noone can estimate. But if you would know a grand hero in whose l...ife opportunity shone likeMars, read the life of Ulysses S. Grant--the man out of whose veryfailures evolved a most brilliant success. When, standing with leadenheart in the little store at Galena, the opportunity for a military lifecame knocking at the door, he welcomed it. For when morning broke on the12th of April, 1861, and the first guns of the Civil War roared uponSumter, Grant marched to the front, and soon became a brigadier-general"The spur of disappointed hopes, the fire of his ambition, and the ironwill that lay back of many of his failures--all the qualities latent inthe man of coming greatness, sprang into mighty being.
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