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Show (3ems of XEbougbt HISTORY History owes its excellency more to the writer's manner than to the material of which it is composed. Goldsmith. Each generation gathers together to-gether the imperishable children of the past, and increases them by new sons of light, alike radiant with immortality. Bancroft. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on .the tablets of eternity. Froude. The cross is the central emblem of human history. Without it there is neither temptation nor glory. .Mary Baker Eddy. The usp of history is to give value to the present hour and its duty. Emerson. Blest is that Nation whose silent course of happiness furnishes furnish-es nothing for history to say. Thomas Jefferson. V |