 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...everlasting truth ! Oration at Plymouth, 1820. ADDRESS TO THE SURVIVING SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION VEJTKRABUK MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation....might behold this joyous day. You are now where you !-t<*id fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your iieighburs, shoulder to shoulder,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1865 - 798 pages
...everlasting truth ! Oration at Plymouth, 1820. AI'DRZSS TO THE SURVIVING SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION. VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former...Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that yon might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with... | |
 | John Frost - 1868 - 318 pages
...succession a couple of huge trout, and transferred them to his basket, he thus apostrophized them, " Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former...your lives, that you might behold this joyous day." Stern and thoughtful as Mr. Webster appeared in public, he had a high zest for humor; and, that the... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...affecting, — I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former...has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you may behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 pages
...words of this kind. EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS BY DANIEL WEBSTER TO SOME AGED SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION. "Venerable men! You have come down to us from a former...shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, iiow altered ! The same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 pages
...affecting, — I had almost said so overwhelming, — this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former...shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying : the impetuous charge... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 pages
...ADDRESS BY DANIEL WEBSTER TO SOME AGED SOLDIERS OP THE REVOLUTION. " Venerable men ! You have come-down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously...years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neiglrbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1870 - 636 pages
...down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you may behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood...same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same oeean rolls at your feet ; but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see... | |
 | American literature - 1875 - 854 pages
...upon them. Eighteen years later, when the same great orator and statesman, who had addressed them as " venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation," delivered an oration on the completion of the monument, only thirteen veterans of Concord, Lexington,... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1875 - 362 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... | |
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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,... 
