Virginia: Address Delivered in Response to the Toast "Virginia," at the Banquet Given by the Citizens of Petersburg, Va., To the President of the ... on May 19, 1909 (Classic Reprint)

Name: Virginia: Address Delivered in Response to the Toast "Virginia," at the Banquet Given by the Citizens of Petersburg, Va., To the President of the ... on May 19, 1909 (Classic Reprint)
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By Alderman, Edwin Anderson

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Excerpt from Virginia<br/><br/>Out of their ranks came our supreme national hero and a group of resourceful men without whose in?uence it is difficult to see how the nation could ever have been born. They were able to achieve, besides, a manly personal charm, a grand manner, a cath olic lovableness, the simplicity that belongs to a shepherd with the pride that belongs to a king, that established them forever in the affections of men. How cheapened of distinction and impover ished of dignity would be our national life if it were bereft of the glorified common sense of George Washington, the human sym pathy and cosmopolitanism of Thomas Jefferson, the instinct for duty and the calm forbearance and lofty wisdom of Robert E. Lee, who long generations afterwards ?owered into the rose of his stately and tolerant manhood, very like the old stock, only gentler and more able, through virtue and suffering, to evoke the love of millions. Two such men as Washington and Lee in one century give to Tidewater Virginia the same sort of distinction which Pericles and Leonidas give to the Grecian Archipelago, for, after all, it is the output of great men that makes fame and friends for nations. Mr. Choate once told the English that the chiefest industry of America was education.

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Binding:: Paperback
Languages:: Published: English , Original: English
Number of Pages:: 17
Publisher:: Forgotten Books
Publication Date:: 2018-08-24

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