The Life of Gen. Francis Marion: A Celebrated Partisan Officer in the Revolutionary War, Against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia |
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Page 156 - I look forward to the long, long ages of posterity. I glory in the thought that I am fighting their battles. The children of distant generations may never hear my name; but still it gladdens my heart to think that I am now contending for their freedom, with all its countless blessings.
Page 155 - Heavens !" rejoined the officer, " but probably what you lose in meal you make up in malt — though stinted in provisions, you draw noble pay." " Not a cent, sir," said Marion,
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Page 107 - After looking on it awhile, with a countenance marked with thought, he breathed a deep sigh and exclaimed, " so there lies the brave De Kalb; the generous stranger who came from a distant land to fight our battles, and to water with his blood the tree of liberty. Would to God he had lived with us to share its fruits.
Page 155 - ... sowing my fields, and reaping the golden grain : and seeing millions of brothers all around me, equally free and happy as myself. This, sir, is what I long for.
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