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The virtuous ... stand forward from a background deeply and darkly shaded....
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Beveridge uses this metaphor to describe the contrast between virtuous individuals and a morally compromised society.
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There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States.
These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
In the excitement produced by ardent controversy, gentlemen view the same object through such different media that minds, not infrequently receive therefrom precisely opposite impressions.
What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
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