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In speaking of simple duty I cannot help thinking of military life, and the examples it offers to combatants in this great struggle. He would little understand his soldier's duty who, the army once beaten, should cease to brush his garments, polish his rifle, and observe discipline. "But what would be the use?" perhaps you ask. Are there not various fashions of being vanquished?
Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her, that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now. A hundred and twenty years ago, the greatest of all our Presidents delivered his second State of the Union message in this Chamber. "We cannot escape history," Abraham Lincoln warned.
He turned round, half laughing. 'That foolish girl of mine thinks I have vexed you' putting his large, powerful hand on my shoulder. "Nay," says I, "kindly meant is kidney taken" is it not so? 'It was not quite, sir, replied I, vanquished by his manner; 'but it shall be in future. 'Come, that's right. You and I shall be friends. Indeed, it's not many a one I would bring in here.
At last he had met and vanquished the man who had taken his father's life, and now, exultant in his victory, came this little child's voice. The cave darkened. A mist, half blood, half blindness, came before his eyes, but clear to his ears there sounded the ringing words: "Vengeance is mine; I will repay!"
When they considered the majority in the House of Commons in their favour, they viewed the resolutions of the committee, which have been detailed, as the last spiteful effort of a vanquished and dying animal, and they supposed that they had consigned the question to eternal sleep.
This, perchance, is a hard task, since it calls on the slave to sing the praises of the master upon the vanquished, while pressed by all the evils of conquest, to sing the praises of the conqueror. Yet I will name a Norman the first in arms and in place the best and the noblest of his race.
I prepared this for your father. I spent a whole moon extracting it from the wild apium, and one drop of it will kill like a lightning flash. If some day you fall vanquished, drink and die before your people behold their chieftain with a hand stricken off and serving the enemy as a slave." Alorcus slipped the chain over his head, concealing the heirloom in his breast.
"I will make their nobles beg their bread upon the highways!" was the dreadful sentence he uttered at Weimar. And the words were never forgotten. The conduct and bearing of the Emperor was the more insulting from its contrast with that of his marshals and generals, many of whom could not help acknowledging in their acts the devotion and patriotism of their vanquished foes.
Charlemagnes sister, the widow of Eggerich, he gave to Sir Elbegast in marriage, and with her the broad lands which had belonged to the vanquished traitor. Thenceforward the erstwhile robber and his sovereign were fast friends. The place where these strange happenings befell was called Ingelheim, in memory of the celestial visitor, and Ingelheim it remains to this day.
A man does not openly triumph in victory, as do women. One sees an easy victor at lawn tennis, for instance go to his vanquished foe, wiping vigorously a brow that is scarcely damp, and explaining more or less lamely how it came about. But the same rarely happens in the "ladies' singles."
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