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From: Junod L. <go...@to...> - 2010-04-09 08:17:13
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we remembered that History does not concern herself about material wealth,--that the life-blood of a nation is not that yellow tide which fluctuates in the arteries of Trade,--that its true revenues are religion, justice, sobriety, magnanimity, and the fair amenities of Art,--that it is only by the soul that any people has achieved greatness and made lasting conquests over the future. We believe there is virtue enough left in the North and West to infuse health into our body politic; we believe that America will reassume that moral influence among the nations which she has allowed to fall into abeyance; and that our eagle, whose morning-flight the world watched with hope and expectation, shall no longer troop with unclean buzzards, but rouse himself and seek his eyrie to brood new eaglets that in time shall share with him the lordship of these Western heavens, and shall learn of him to shake the thunder from their invincible wings. * * * * * LITERARY NOTICES. _Library of Old Authors_. London: John Russell Smith, 1856-7. Many of our older readers can remember the anticipation with which they looked for each successive volume of the late Dr. Young's excellent series of old English prose-writers, and the delight with which they carried it home, fresh from the press and the bindery i |