Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . ^ and the sombre shadow of death fell across a name high on the liouor i-oll of our national heroes. AN EXAMPLE OF TRUE NOBILITY. General Grant was a modest, unassuming man, and these are thecharacteristics of true greatness. Bombast and pretense were foreign tohis nature. Reared in humble life and unknown until our Civil Warbroke out, he never forgot his early circumstances and was a plain man, a rebuke to proud, self-conceited, airy men whohave wonderful opinions of their own superiority and expect you toworship the
Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . ^ and the sombre shadow of death fell across a name high on the liouor i-oll of our national heroes. AN EXAMPLE OF TRUE NOBILITY. General Grant was a modest, unassuming man, and these are thecharacteristics of true greatness. Bombast and pretense were foreign tohis nature. Reared in humble life and unknown until our Civil Warbroke out, he never forgot his early circumstances and was a plain man, a rebuke to proud, self-conceited, airy men whohave wonderful opinions of their own superiority and expect you toworship them accordingly. It is remarkable that a poor, unknown and modest citizen shouldhave risen so rapidly to the highest position in the army and nation. Itshows military genius of the most brilliant order. Persistency and per-severance were his marked qualities, and these are good for young orold, and are the sureties of that success we are all
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