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...tell, and sad to trace, Each step from splendour to disgrace." — Giaour, 1. 10(5. " A thousand years scarce serve to form a state — An hour may lay it in the dust : and when Can man its shatter'd splendour renovate, Becall its virtues back, and vanquish time and...

...single error may cause a flaw that shall send the whole work back to the furnace. " A thousand years scarce serve to form a State, An hour may lay it in the dust." To guide the resistless forces, and to shun dangers on either hand—as well the Scylla of a too timid...

...which can bear cultivation is made subservient to the uses of mankind. CHAPTER X. " A thousand years scarce serve to form a State, An hour may lay it in the dust." THAT person who has read history without perceiving that a large extent of empire is necessarily attended...

...country. It is well said, by the most poetical genius, perhaps, of our own times — "A thousand years scarce serve to form a state, An hour may lay it in the dust" — This is the feeling which has regulated — which will continue to regulate — my conduct It was...

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...denationalized, and received a new vigour, not inherently derived, but extrinsically acquired. " A thousand years scarce serve to form a state — An hour may lay it in the dust ; But when shall man its ancient virtues renovate — Recall its glories back, and vanquish time and...

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