Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 74
a small portion of mankind. Patriotic Selfishness 49 The pride, vanity, ambition, brutality even, which werebuke in individuals, are accounted virtues when dis-played in the name of country. Among us, the senti-ment is active, while it derives new force from thepoint with which it has been… … Though at the Farthest Pole. exclamation; a sentiment dethroning God and enthron-ing the devil, whose flagitious character should berebuked by every honest heart. Unlike this officer was the virtuous Andrew Fletcherof Saltoun, in the days of the English Revolution, ofwhom it was said that he would…
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