An Address Delivered Before the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture
An Address Delivered Before the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture
H a S Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn
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Egypt ! who can hear that word without being excited ? It seems to embrace the entirety of the past. What throngs of ideas, what multitudes of events, rush upon the memory, what mustering conceptions does the aroused imagination embody forth ! The gorgeous courts of the Pharaohs, the con- quests of Sesostris, the disastrous invasion of Cambyses, the triumphal march of Alexander, the splendid reigns of the Ptol- emys, Pompey's tragic death, the victories of Caesar, the fate of Mark Anthony, the ...devastations of the Saracens, the Ottoman subjugation, and the battles of Napoleon, all pass in rapid review, like the magic pageantry of an illuminated scene. It was on the banks of the Nile, that the moral powers of man were first and most successfully developed. There were laid the deep and broad foundations of an empire, which sur- passed all others in the extent of its power, in the range of commercial enterprise, in the number and grandeur of its cities, the magnitude and elegance of its palaces and triumphal mon- uments, in wealth, intelligence and the arts, in all that reflects glory on a people and gives eternal lustre to nations.
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