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...Australian cricketers won a test match on British soil for the first time. Next day, the following epitaph appeared in the London Sporting Times: "In affectionate remembrance of English Cricket which died at the Oval on 29th of August, 1882. Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances. R. I. P. (N. B. The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia...
...speaking of the attitude of most people toward Washington, Professor Morison quotes the epitaph on the tomb of Plato, "Here lies a man whom it is neither permissable nor proper for the irreverent or ignorant to praise;" and the portrait he draws is of a man to whom this would apply. He tells of Washington's self-discipline, of how he formulated his own philosophy, which was a sort of combination of stoicism and aristocracy, and accounts for his almost perfect balance and serenity. Professor Morison also describes how Washington learned to handle men, and treats his dignified, manly love...
...flashed on clear steel, half a thousand boots clicked to attention as the Emperor walked slowly up the great steps of the Pantheon. He was going to visit the grave of the man that had made him possible. the Guard stood by eagerly waiting for the great epitaph which the Emperor would pronounce as he stood before the tomb of Rousseau. Marshalls leaned forward on their scabbards, courtiers strained unintelligent ears to catch a phrase they might repeat. All waited a trifle obviously. Napoleon in his favourite green stared down at the stone and murmured half to himself, "The world...
...after years a Temple was erected from the proceeds of the confiscated Gracchan property called the Temple of Concord. On one dark night a man stole in and etched the brother's common epitaph for all the world-"Out of discord comes Concord." They were honest and brave men who died for the principles they so staunchly supported. But they did not die in vain for they sowed the seeds of democracy which was eventually to bring down the foundations of the republic amid the far off thunder of the Triumvirate. Today at 9 in Sever 18 Mr. Hammond will...
...themselves by the abuses consequent on their forcing the sale of beer. Of the saloon's denizens only the barkeep emerges unscathed from Author Ade's hands. "He was at least as human and humane as his contemporaries and much more temperate in his habits. Let his epitaph be kindly...