The Washington centennial1789-1889 . £ 3> ,vl*? Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, byIn the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. Press of FARRANH \ EVEEDELL, 256 Pearl street, New WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. THE diligent student of history, inhis examination of the rise, prog-ress and decline of the nations ofthe earth, will be led to this observation,that every age, from the earliest produced its great men, and thatsome one among them has stood out amonghis fellows prominent for virtue, courage,a leader of armies, or as a ruler over thel
The Washington centennial1789-1889 . £ 3> ,vl*? Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, byIn the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. Press of FARRANH \ EVEEDELL, 256 Pearl street, New WASHINGTON CENTENNIAL. THE diligent student of history, inhis examination of the rise, prog-ress and decline of the nations ofthe earth, will be led to this observation,that every age, from the earliest produced its great men, and thatsome one among them has stood out amonghis fellows prominent for virtue, courage,a leader of armies, or as a ruler over thelives ami destinies of his countrymen;ami also, that their biographies, incom-plete as 111:1113 elthem are. are only frag-ments of the history of the countries inwhich they lived. But while this is true of most of theancient commonwealths, later centuries,with more critical historians, have elabo-rated the lives of their heroes so com-pletely as to bring not only into view thetraits of character that men always honorami applaud, but disclose too frequentlytheir selfishness, rapacity and cruelty,mixed with what would otherwise lie awell rounded life. Iiut still with all theirfaults how we delight to follow themthrough the va
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