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Excerpt from Address Before the Enosinian Society of Columbian College: On the Occasion of the Celebration of Their Twenty-Eighth Anniversary
The position which a nation takes among the other nations of the world, depends upon nothing so especially as the character of the great men it produces. Its history is but the record of their deeds, the story of their achievements. The manners of a people require but a few words of men tion; while whole volumes are insufficient for a detail of the expeditions of Cyrus, or Hannibal, or Napoleon. In relating these latter, the historian has faithfully performed the best part of his duty. History would become too voluminous did it busy itself with recording any but the most promi nent events that mark the progress of a nation. The ingenuity of the reader must be exercised, or historical writings would fail to entertain as well as instruct, and become nothing more than dull tables of chronology. Fashioned by the people, the great men of an age or nation become its representatives. Nothing marks more surely the changes which have agitated a nation, than the differences of character that are apparent among, its great men. Rome has given birth to a Tarquin and a Brutus, to a Cincinnatus and a Sylla, a Pompey and a Casar, a Rienzi and. 3. Stephen Colonna.
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