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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.

Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial

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Thomas B. Macaulay
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Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

On Warren Hastings. 1841.

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