 | Edward Everett - 1870 - 690 pages
...maintain this declaration, to support and defend these states. Yet, through all the gloom, I can see a ray of light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more than all the means.77 Nor was it the rash adventure of uneasy spirits, who had every thing to gain, and nothing... | |
 | 1910 - 1076 pages
...light and glory : I can see that the end :» more than worth all the means, and that posterity wili triumph although you and I may rue, which I hope we shall not'' And ttv.n enthusiasm ought to be in the heart* of th* mighty mass of men who keep holiday in the name... | |
 | United States - 1875 - 1750 pages
...this Declaration and support and defend the States ; yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory. I can see that the end is worth...posterity will triumph, although you and I may rue it!" Glorious old man I Could he stand to-day on the battle-fields of the Republic— the hallowed... | |
 | Committee on National Centennial Commemoration - 1876 - 110 pages
...July, one hundred years ago, he exclaimed: "yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is worth more...than all the means, and that posterity will triumph in this day's transactions, even although we should rue it, which I trust in God we shall not." How... | |
 | Hezekiah Niles - United States - 1876 - 536 pages
...through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory ; I can see that the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity will triumph, although you and I may rue, which I hope we shall not. JOHN ADAMS. Several of the volumes of the Weekly Register, are enriched by the correspondence of Mr.... | |
 | Orators - 1880 - 698 pages
...through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory; I can see that the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity will triumph, although you and I may rue, which I hope we shall not. JOHN ADAMS. PATRIOTISM A VIRTUE. JONATHAN MASON. Boston, March 5, 178o. " Devotion to the public. Glorious... | |
 | Mecosta County (Mich.) - 1883 - 678 pages
...this declaration, and support and defend these States; yet, through all the gloom, I can seethe rays of light and glory. I can see that the end is worth...appointed a delegate to France, and to co-operate with Bemjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, who were then in Paris, in the endeavor to obtain assistance in arms... | |
 | Governors - 1884 - 846 pages
...this declaration, and support and defend these States; yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory. I can see that the end is worth...appointed a delegate to France and to co-operate with Bemjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, who were then in Paris, in the endeavor to obtain assistance in arms... | |
 | Huron County (Mich.) - 1884 - 510 pages
...this declaration, and support and defend these States; yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory. I can see that the end is worth...appointed a delegate to France, and to co-operate with Bemjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, who were then in Paris, in the endeavor to obtain assistance in arms... | |
 | Governors - 1884 - 436 pages
...this declaration, and support and defend these States; yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light and glory. I can see that the end is worth...appointed a delegate to France^ and to co-operate with Bemjamin Franklin and Arthur Lee, who were then in Paris, in the endeavor to obtain assistance in arms... | |
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You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil, and blood and treasure, that it will cost to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these States; yet, through all the gloom, I can see the rays of light... 
