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he order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat the whole system. you have, indeed, "wingled ministers" of vengence, who carry your bolts in their pouches to the remotes verge of the sea. but there a power steps in that limits the arrogance of raging passion and furious elements, and says: "so far shalt though go, and no farther."
　　殖民地这种不屈服的精神作为最后一个原因，其影响并不亚于其他的原因，因为这不仅仅是个道德问题，而且它深深植根于自然界事物的构造之中。你们和他们之间相距着万里大洋。来自那遥远统治的影响目前尚无法防止。通过海路传递命令到执行命令往往要几个月时间；只要有一个需迅速解决的问题即可彻底毁掉整个体系。你们确实面对着"长有翅膀的复仇大臣"，他们的袋里装着你们的霹雳直至天涯海角。但有一种力量会限制这种盛怒之威，并且说："至此为止，回头是岸。"
  there is saying that about the sun which makes us forget his spots, and when we think of general grant our pulses quicken and his grammar vanishes; we only remember that this is the simple soldier, who, all in taught of the silken phrase makers, linked words together with an art surpassing the art of the schools and put into them a something which will still bring to american ears, as long as america shall last, the roll of his vanished drums and the tread of his marching hosts. what do we care for grammar when we think of those thunderous phrases; "unconditional and immediate surrender", "i propose to move immediately upon your words", "i propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer". mr arnold would doubtless claim that that last phrase is not strictly grammatical, and yet it did certainly make up this nation as a hundred million tons of a no.1, fourth proof, hard-boilded, hidebound grammar from another mouth could not have done. and finally we have that gentler phrase, that one which shows you another true side of the man, shows you that in his soldier heart there was room for other than glory war mottoes and his tongue the gift to fitfully phrase them─"let us have peace".
　　人们说太阳的存在使我们忘掉了它的黑点，我们一想起格兰特将军，就会心潮澎湃，而全然不管他的语法。我们只记得这是一位纯朴的军人，他根本没有受过那些咬文嚼字的文人的影响，他使用了一种胜过各派的艺术，把词语连接起来并加入了某种气质，只要美国存在，这种气质就仍然会把那消失的鼓点声和前进的脚步声带回到美国人的耳际。我们想起以下如雷灌耳的词句，还

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