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the instability of human glory summary​

Answer 1

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Sir, I have employed myself of late pretty much in

the study of history, aud have heeu reading the

stories of the great men of past ages, Alexander the

Great, Julius Caesar, the great Augustus, and many

more down, down, down, to the still greater Louis

XIV., and even to the still greatest John, Duke of

Marlborough. In my way I met with Tamerlane, the

Scythian, Tomornbejus, the Egyptian, Solyman, the

Magnificent, and others of the Mahometan or Otto-

man race ; aud after all the great things they have

done I find it said of them all, one after another,

AND THEN HE DIED, all dead, dead, dead ! hie

jacet is the finishing part of their history. Some lie

in the bed of honour, and some in honour's truckle

bed ; some were bravely slain in battle on the field of

honour, some in the storm of a counterscarp and died

in the ditch of honour ; some here, some there ; — the

bones of the bold and the brave, the cowardly and the

base, the hero and the scoundrel, are heaped up

together : — there they lie in oblivion, and under the

ruins of the earth, undistinguished from oiie another,

nay, even from the common earth.

Huddled in dirt the blust'ring engine lies.

That was so great, and thought himself so wise.