the good ol' days
was just kinda browsing around the library and found myself struck by this enormous volume in the early american history section
Grand and impressive, beyond all that is yet writen in the Volume of Human History, will be that transcendent Chapter, which shall unfold, in philosophic narrative, the birth and onward march, in greatness and power, of the Republic of the United States,--the completion of its FIRST CENTURY of mighty national development in Political Liberty and Free Civilization, and the momentous relations of that development to the interest, progress, and destiny of mankind.
opening paragraph of the "Dedication" to Our First Century: Or, the One Hundred Great and Memorable Events of Perpetual Interest in the History of Our Country During the One Hundred Years of its Existence, 1776-1876 by R.M. Evens
Grand and impressive, beyond all that is yet writen in the Volume of Human History, will be that transcendent Chapter, which shall unfold, in philosophic narrative, the birth and onward march, in greatness and power, of the Republic of the United States,--the completion of its FIRST CENTURY of mighty national development in Political Liberty and Free Civilization, and the momentous relations of that development to the interest, progress, and destiny of mankind.
opening paragraph of the "Dedication" to Our First Century: Or, the One Hundred Great and Memorable Events of Perpetual Interest in the History of Our Country During the One Hundred Years of its Existence, 1776-1876 by R.M. Evens