Roman Dates

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“He wrote in prison, not a History of the World, like Raleigh, but an American book which I think will live longer than that. I do not know of such words, uttered under such circumstances, and so copiously withal, in Roman or English or any history.”
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“Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
What thou dost foist upon us that is old,”
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