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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 18 edition. Excerpt: ...rolling over to the side of the ship, they tottered an instant over the waters--then with a loud plunge sunk together. There is neither age, nor condition, nor situation, which does not leave a man the liberty and the necessary means of practising any virtue. Cicero has said that there is not a moment without some duty. CHARLES CAMERON.-------See where he comes I His manly lineaments, his beaming eye The same, but now a holier innocence Sits on his cheek, and loftier thoughts illume The enlightened glance."--Soutbby. The newspapers of the day announced a brilliant victory, and Britons were called on to glory in their name, and to share in the proud trinmph of their invincible countrymen. Loud aud long was the answering burst of public gratulation: --but many a sickening heart refused to join in the note of joy, and many a tearful eye looked around on the diminished circle it once had fondly gazed on, but looked in vain for the father, brother, husband, child, that would return no more! Among the names of those who fell, that of Charles Cameron had its passing meed of admiration for gallant deeds, and of sincere, though short-lived, regret, that youth and valour should have been thus untimely snatched away. But deep was the wound which his loss had made in the bosom of an idolizing family, who wept over the removal of the son and the brother whose place could never again be filled. When long years had softened down the first hitterness of their regrets, still was he fondly and sadly remembered. The mother's heart, as her eye glanced on the childish sports of her boys, would still revert to her first-born, and ponder over many a scene of davs gone by, forgotten or unmarked save by a mother's love. The father thought on the goodly youth...