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[Gen. William S.] "Rosecrans [at Chicamauga] has been badly beaten!"... How these blows strike my heart!... I suffer from these bl ...
Turn your eyes to the immoderate past,
Turn to the inscrutable infantry rising
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Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? T ...
Gladstone in Great Britain and Parnell in Ireland, under the watchword, "Home Rule for Ireland," are fighting the battle of self-g ...
Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "England ...
I have just read your dispatch about sore tongued and fatiegued [sic] horses. Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of you ...
The militancy of men, through all the centuries, has drenched the world with blood, and for these deeds of horror and destruction ...
Consider what stuff history is made of,--that for the most part it is merely a story agreed on by posterity. Who will tell us even ...
America is said to be the arena on which the battle of freedom is to be fought; but surely it cannot be freedom in a merely politi ...
They have thus dammed all the larger lakes, raising their broad surfaces many feet ... thus turning the forces of nature against h ...
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