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I hope the foundation, not the fall, of an empire will be dated from it.
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The speaker hopes that the event being discussed will mark the beginning of an empire, not its collapse. “Foundation” points to a new period of building and rule, while “fall” means defeat or ruin. The sentence therefore expresses a wish that this moment be remembered as the empire’s start rather than the point where it ended.
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- Project Gutenberg, A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay
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