. The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations. actionsand sufferings as if she had been giving an account of someancient heroes. Some, therefore, imagined that age and the22 338 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS. greatness of her misfortunes had deprived her of those who were of that opinion seem rather to havewanted understanding themselves, since they knew not howmuch a noble mind may, by a liberal education, be enabledto support itself against distress, and that though in the pur-suit of rectitude. Fortune may often defeat the purposes ofVirtue; y
. The Library of historic characters and famous events of all nations. actionsand sufferings as if she had been giving an account of someancient heroes. Some, therefore, imagined that age and the22 338 HISTORIC CHARACTERS AND FAMOUS EVENTS. greatness of her misfortunes had deprived her of those who were of that opinion seem rather to havewanted understanding themselves, since they knew not howmuch a noble mind may, by a liberal education, be enabledto support itself against distress, and that though in the pur-suit of rectitude. Fortune may often defeat the purposes ofVirtue; yet Virtue, in bearing affliction, can never lose herprerogative. She lived long enough to receive striking evidence of thereaction of public opinion against the Roman Senate, thedestroyer of her sons. The Roman people erected in theForum, during her lifetime, a statue in her honor with thisinscription: Cornelia Mater Gracchorum. Of lateyears the statue, still on the site of the Forum, has been dis-covered during archaeological excavations at Rome.—
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