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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: African tribes, or a Sedgwick and Wadsworth under the battle-field's hail of death, but rather are to be found everywhere, where a human spirit quails before the tempter, or wavers in its allegiance to God ? If a painter with the most consummate art should draw you two scenes?one, that of a Columbus returning triumphant from his voyage of discovery, with the riches and treasures of a New World in the hold of his vessel, and the crowded docks alive with men shouting his welcome home?the other, that of some foundering Arctic, going down with its freight of human life amid the rush of waves, the blaze of lightnings and the thunder of the storm, ?the contrast would but symbolize the different fate of human beings, starting from the same harbor, with equal capabilities, with common hopes, and with the same favoring breeze. One passes away as it were in the triumph of a successful voyage, with words of lofty cheer in his feeblest whispers, while the port of rest greets and cheers his dying eye?the other sinks silent and hopeless beneath the waves and storms of life, leaving no memorial perhaps behind but the bubble of his parting breath. One stands on Pisgah conversing with angels. The feet of the other stumble on the dark mountains. One leaves behind him such memories of goodness as make every place of his earthly sojourn fragrant for generations?the other is thought of only as a Pilate, a Gallic, or a Demas. What makes this difference? Why does the world never weary to hear of Mount Vernon, the tomb of Washington ? Why does the latest generation keep still well- worn the path by which for centuries the noblest of earth have hasted to lay the freshest flowers on the graves of the martyrs; while of one of the very ablest of England'sgifted statesmen (Walpole) the historian has bee...