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It was a soufflé of a speech, light, pleasant, digestible, and nourishing also.
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Poor playthings of the man that's gone,
Surely we would not have them thrown,
Like wreckage on a barren strand,
The prey of every greedy hand.
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One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
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Frederick York Powell
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Born:
January 4, 1850
Died:
May 8, 1904
(aged 54)
Bio:
Frederick York Powell was an English historian and scholar.
Known for:
Old Stories From British History
Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror (1881)
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