He has had the rare good fortune among men of letters, to have proposed to himself a great task, requiring a lifetime for its accomplishment, the successful achievement of which is enough to make any life illustrious, and to have lived to complete it with powers of body and mind undiminished.
Hoar admires the rare achievement of a writer who dedicates their life to a monumental task and completes it successfully.
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This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
It was undoubtedly the chief object of this last provision to prevent the perpetuation of power in the same hands, or under the same influences, by removing the choice of President wholly from the control of persons wielding National…
Never rode to the wrong's redressing A worthier paladin.
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