. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . but,rallying, he fell to the work again. When we were in New York I showedyou the Sixty-sixth street house where that fearful fight was fought. Thebattle shifted to a mountain-top near Saratoga. There, on Mount McGregor,he rallied, there he sank, there again he held death at bay, until at last heconquered. The memoirs were completed; the task he had set for himselfwas done. Then he laid down his pen — the pen that, indeed, had beenmightier than the sword; he said, I am. ready, and died — a gre
. The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes . but,rallying, he fell to the work again. When we were in New York I showedyou the Sixty-sixth street house where that fearful fight was fought. Thebattle shifted to a mountain-top near Saratoga. There, on Mount McGregor,he rallied, there he sank, there again he held death at bay, until at last heconquered. The memoirs were completed; the task he had set for himselfwas done. Then he laid down his pen — the pen that, indeed, had beenmightier than the sword; he said, I am. ready, and died — a greater herothan ever he had been in war, a nobler figure than when in the presence ofkings, or as the head of his own republic. Victor for us and spotless of all blame, Doer of hopeless tasks which praters shirk — One of those still, plain men that do the worlds rough work, said Christine, returning to Lowells ode once more, while even the boyswere silent. The story of that victory of the vanquished stilled even theirexultant enthusiasm in the nations peerless soldier—mighty even in A JAPANESE PICTURE OF GENERAL GRANTS RECEPTION IN JAPAN.
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