 | Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1877 - 894 pages
...King of Prussia, by putting a crown Upon his own head. Napoleon Bonaparte invested hia brows with the crown of Lombardy, and declared himself King of Italy....encircled their brows, and there it remains. There, long as this globe shall be inhabited by human beings, may it remain a crown of imperishable glory.... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - Fourth of July celebrations - 1882 - 1040 pages
...King of Prussia, by putting a crown upon his own head. Napoleon Bonaparte invested his brows with ths crown of Lombardy, and declared himself King of Italy....encircled their brows, and there it remains. There, long as this globe shall be inhabited by human beings, may it remain a crown of imperishable glory.... | |
 | Paul Downes - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 255 pages
...Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in t83t. "The Declaration of Independence," proclaimed Adams, "was the crown with which the people of United America,...man, encircled their brows, and there it remains; so long as this globe shall be inhabited by human beings [!], may it remain, a crown of imperishable... | |
 | Gary V. Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 268 pages
...the Declaration. "Napoleon Bonaparte invested his brows with the iron crown of Lombardy," he stated, "and declared himself King of Italy. The Declaration...human beings, may it remain, a crown of imperishable glory!"184 Napoleon truly was the hero of his age. His successes helped bring about profound changes... | |
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... people from that day forth as an independent nation. The people of all the Colonies, speaking by their representatives, constituted themselves one moral person before the face of their fellow men. Frederic I., of Brandenburg, constituted himself king... 