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• De conformidad con estos designios sobre la ciudad de Washington, y a pesar de los desastrosos resultados de la invasión de 1862, el gobierno rebelde decidió el verano pasado reanudar la ofensiva en esa dirección.

  Edward Everett

  Summer, Government, Cities

  Edward Everett (1868). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.628

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• In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.

  Edward Everett

  Break Up, Atoms, Elements

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.655, Рипол Классик

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• There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

  Edward Everett

  Real, Speech, Lasts

  Edward Everett (1868). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.653

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• A great character, founded on the living rock of principle is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,--and perhaps, his country, his language.

  Edward Everett

  País, Carácter, Hombres

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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• Dios bendiga a la Unión; es más querida para nosotros por la sangre de hombres valientes que se ha derramado en su defensa.

  Edward Everett

  Men, Blood, Bravery

  Edward Everett (1868). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.658

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• When every brake hath found its note, and sunshine smiles in every flower.

  Edward Everett

  Spring, Flower, Sunshine

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• Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

  Edward Everett

  Lying, Blessed, California

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• General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

  Edward Everett

  Action, Made, Disposition

  Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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• We have now in our possession three instruments of civilization, unknown to antiquity. These are the art of printing; free representative government; and, lastly, a pure and spiritual religion, the deep fountain of generous enthusiasm, the mighty spring of bold and lofty designs, the great sanctuary of moral power.

  Edward Everett

  Spiritual, Art, Spring

  "Diccionario de palabras ardientes de escritores brillantes". Libro de Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• El hombre que se encuentra en su propio suelo, que se siente, por las leyes de la tierra en la que vive, -por las leyes de las naciones civilizadas-, propietario legítimo y exclusivo de la tierra que cultiva, está, por la constitución de nuestra naturaleza, bajo una influencia saludable, no fácilmente imbuida de ninguna otra fuente.

  Edward Everett

  Hombres, Ley, Tierra

  Edward Everett (1839). “Selections from the Works of Edward Everett: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.62

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• Lo que hoy subsiste por la violencia, mañana continúa por la aquiescencia y se perpetúa por la tradición, hasta que al final el viejo abuso nos sacude las canas de la antigüedad y se presenta como la sabiduría de los siglos.

  Edward Everett

  Self, Hair, Giving

  Edward Everett (1831). “The prospect of reform in Europe [by E. Everett]. From the North Amer. review”, p.15

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• Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

  Edward Everett

  Cowardice, Manners, Characteristics

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