Word: facings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Pale grew his face, his dark eye burned...
...show them the face of the terrible...
...society of pictures. A book may fail to fix our wandering thoughts, because in reading an appreciable effort of attention is always necessary; but no effort is required to get into the spirit of a beautiful landscape, or to lose one's self in the contemplation of a beautiful face...
Sentiment is one of the strongest incentives to patriotism. A nation that has no past is to be much pitied, but a nation that has great men and glorious deeds to look back to, and yet wilfully turns its face the other way, - that nation, indeed, is in want of speedy assistance. Athens and Rome neglected the examples and memory of their ancestors, and fell. Let us hope that the American republic, upon which so much depends, and to which so many look with anxious hope, will not follow in their footsteps; for, if she does, the result is certain...
...elms by the Granary Burying-Ground have continued to increase in beauty and strength, until they have come to be to many of us a much-loved memorial of our forefathers and their times; and in their gnarled trunks, as in the furrows of an aged warrior's face, we seem to read of deeds of which they are the silent witness...