id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195668 England, John, 1786-1842. Oration delivered before the Washington Light Infantry : at their request, in the R.C. Cathedral Church of St. Finnbar, in the city of Charleston, on the 22nd of February, 1838 : being the thirty-first anniversary of the company 1838 .txt text/plain 17144 512 56 Why have we not amongst us more men bearing this true stamp of the no- bility of virtue? It is the vain braggart who shuns the field where the contest for his country’s rights is to try man’s prowess, who too frequently make a vaporing semblance of a virtue which he has not; it is often the coward who wantonly provokes brave men to those lists, of which he continues to be only a spectator. cache/_005195668.txt txt/_005195668.txt