An Address Delivered Before the New England Agricultural Society
The book An Address Delivered Before the New England Agricultural Society was written by author Andrew, John A. (John Albion), 1818-1867 Here you can read free online of An Address Delivered Before the New England Agricultural Society book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is An Address Delivered Before the New England Agricultural Society a good or bad book?
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Let me repeat to you the language of his eulogy and, as you listen, let every patriot heart ask of itself, whether any fame can be so proud as that which recognizes the debt of nations and of ages to the culture and the intellect of a people, centuries after the end of their career. More than that : when the suggestion of Mara- thon shall bring to mind our own struggle for National existence, inquire of History whether a nation has ever been suffered to fall and die, so long as that principle w...as preserved and cher- ished in its own conscious life, which was the essential principle of its beauty and its power. "I well remember," he says, "in early boyhood being laughingly asked my opinion of the relative importance of Marathon and Waterloo ; and to me, to whom everything later than Greece and Rome was, at that time, a cipher in historical calculation, but one answer was possible. I doubt if I should now remodel my verdict. What was the day of Marathon as an element in the history of man ?
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