... this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the... ... Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration, 1825 - Page 5by Daniel Webster - 1896 - 34 pagesFull view - About this book
| Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1825 - 44 pages
...weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish, that labor may look up here, and be proud, in the...that, in those days of disaster, which, as they come on all nations, must be expected to come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward,... | |
| Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1825 - 920 pages
...weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish, that labor may look up here, and be proud, in the...that, in those days of disaster, which, as they come on all nations, must be expected t« come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hithervvard.... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 506 pages
...withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish, that labour may look up here, and be proud, in the midst of its...that, in those days of disaster, which, as they come on all nations, must be expected to come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eye hitherward,... | |
| Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument - 1825 - 52 pages
...wish, that, in those days of disaster, which, as they come on all nations, must be expected to come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward,...assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong. We wish, that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish, that labor may look up here, and be proud, in the...that, in those days of disaster, which, as they come on all nations, must be expected to come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward,... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 564 pages
...weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish, that labor may look up here, and be proud, in the midst of its toil. Wre wish, that, in those days of disaster, which, as they come on all nations, must be expected to... | |
| William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish, that labour may look up here, and be proud, in the midst of its...that, in those days of disaster, which, as they come on all nations, must be expected to come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward,... | |
| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...recollections which it suggests. We wish that labour may look up here and be proud in the midst of toil. 4. We wish, that, in those days of disaster, which, as...they come upon all nations, must be expected to come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn his eye to this hill and be assured that the foundations... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish, that labour may look up here, and be proud in the midst of its toil. We wish, that, ia those days of disaster, which, as they come on all nations, must be expected to come on us also,... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections i which it suggests. We wish, that labour may look up here, and be proud in the midst of its...that, in those days of disaster, which, as they come on all nations, must be expected to come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward,... | |
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