Ocupation: Former Secretary at War
Life: October 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859
Birthday: October 25
Death: December 28
The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.
topic: Moving, Hair, History, Concise, Thermopylae