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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.

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

Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

Edward Everett

Freedom, War, Long

Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.609

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

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

Country, Character, Men

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

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

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

Edward Everett

Men, Blood, Bravery

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

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

Edward Everett

Spring, Flower, Sunshine

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”

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

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels, by the laws of the land in which he lives,-by the laws of civilized nations,-he is the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is, by the constitution of our nature, under a wholesome influence, not easily imbibed from any other source.

Edward Everett

Men, Law, Land

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

What subsists to-day by violence continues to-morrow by acquiescence and is perpetuated by tradition; till at last the hoary abuse shakes the gray hairs of antiquity at us, and gives it-self out as the wisdom of ages.

Edward Everett

Self, Hair, Giving

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