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If such people could retain their physical superiority and their courage, and combine them with our acquirements, they would surpass us in every way, Extat ut in mediis turris aprica casis. They would be, in comparison with us, as a giant to a dwarf, a mountain to a hill: Quantus Eryx, et quantus Athos, gaudetque nivali Vertice se attollens pater Apenninus ad auras.
But when all these are swept away by the rude hand of time, or the rough blasts of adversity, the true Christian stands, like the glory of the forest, erect and vigorous; stripped indeed of his summer foliage, but more than ever discovering to the observing eye the solid strength of his substantial texture: Pondere fixa suo est, nudosque per aera ramos Attollens, trunco non frondibus efficit umbram.
... Lucent genialibus altis Aurea fulcra toris, epulaeque ante ora paratae Regifico luxu: Furiarum maxima juxta Accubat, et manibus prohibet contingere mensas; Exurgitque facem attollens, atque intonat ore.
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