 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...parling day linger and play on its summit. TO THE SURVTVORS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. VEXEISABLE men! you have come down to us from a former generation....years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbours, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife of your country. Bchold how altered! The same heavens... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 234 pages
...I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. VENERAHLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation....you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothel's and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold how altered... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 560 pages
...affecting, I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theater of their courage and patriotism. Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former...lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You arc now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Readers - 1854 - 352 pages
...have come down to us, from a former veneration. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out lour liv°e S , that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago tins very hour ^ wuh your brothers, and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, m the strife for your... | |
 | Freemasonry - 1854 - 406 pages
...powers— not only as companions and co-workers — but as examples and guides. "Venerable men! — Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this day." And your companions have judged it not only " fit and proper." but important — as well as agreeable... | |
 | John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 pages
...THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, DKLIVERED AT THE LAYING Of THE CORNER-STONE OF THE BDNKER HILL MOM'MENT. VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former...ago, this very hour, with your brothers, and your neighbours, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...and play upon its summit. TO THE SURVIVORS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. FROM THE SAME. VESEHÍBLE men ! you have come down to us from a former generation....years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbours, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife of your country. Behold how altered ! The same heavens... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1856 - 386 pages
...water, he exclaimed, as if addressing his captive, and regarding it as the representative of others, " Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former...your lives, that you might behold this joyous day." And these very words were afterwards employed in his oration at the laying of the corner stone of the... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 656 pages
...almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. VENERABLE MSN ! you have come down to us, from a former generation....in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered ! Tho same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your leet ; but all else, how... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 690 pages
...almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. VEXEBABLE MEN I yon have come down to us, from a former generation. Heaven...in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered 1 Tho same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but all else, how... | |
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Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors,... 
