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the honors paid him was not a matter of courfe, or in 

 compliance with a duty enjoined, but the teflimony 

 of real forrow and fincere affedion *. 



liV this defcription, the analogy, whicli I have 

 fuggefted is apparent. In other particulars, there is no 

 rcfemblance. Timoleon was a foreigner, in Sicilv. 



/■i^^sHiNGTON had the fupreme fatisfadion of imbibing 

 and difplaying all his virtues and talents, in his own 

 beloved country. As if to exemplify his own fage 

 reflections upon the inexpediency of foreign education 

 *iiid accomnliflimcnts for an American citizen, he like- 



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** The tall mall thafbears our Flag onlilgli, 



'*' Grow In OUR SOIL aud rlpcu*d in OUR SKY."V" 



Timoleon w^as long wretched, if not, guilty in 

 [he death of his brother, and was a prey to forrow and 



remorfe for the fpace of twenty years. No baleful 



domeftic occurrence darkened the days of IVjisiiington. 

 Ti'oubles and anxieties, infeparable from the cup of life, 

 doubtlefs alTailed him j- but thofe he fuftained with dig- 

 nity and equanimity. - 



Timoleon was cenfurable incaufmg the condemna* 

 tion and the death of the wife and daughter of Icetas. 



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The tender fympathies of humanity were always 

 chcrifhed in the hvc2i^ o£ If^^s hi ngtoh ; and in a war 

 pecuHarly tending to kindle and inflame the human 

 pafTions, He is chargeable with no inftance of cruelty or 



revenge. 



* Plutarch's Life op Timolion. 



t J. Allen's Poems. 



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