 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 564 pages
...already gone ; and that no structure, which shall not outlive the duration o! letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial. But our object is,...to foster a constant regard for the principles of th e Revolution. Human beings are composed not of reason only, but of imagination also, and sentiment... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 544 pages
...outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial. But our objeJrt is, by this edifice to show our own deep sense of...to keep alive similar sentiments, and to foster a constant/regard for the principles of the Revolution. Human beings are composed not of reason only,... | |
 | Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial.—But our object is, to show by this edifice our own deep sense of the value and importance of...presenting this work of gratitude to the eye, to keep alive the seniu-it-i-ate in-ju-ri-oua in-oc-u-late in-or-di-nate ia-qui-c-tude in-quis-i-tive in-san-i-ty... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...already gone ; and that no structure, which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial. But our object is, by this edifice, to show our deep sense of the value and importance of the achievements of our ancestors ; and, by presenting this... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...gone'; and that no structure which shall not outlive the duration of letters aaAftif knowledge among men', can prolong the memorial. But our object is', by this edifice', to show our deep sense of the value and importance of the achievements* of our ancestors'; and', by presenting... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 278 pages
...already gone ; and that no structure, which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial. But our object is,...by presenting this work of gratitude to the eye, to kepp alive similar sentiments, and to foster a constant regard for the principles of the revolution.... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...already gone ; and that no structure which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial. But our object is, by this edifice, to show our deep sense of the value and importance of the achievements of our ancestors ; and by presenting this... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1837 - 396 pages
...already gone ; and that no structure, which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial. But our object is, by this edifice to show our deep sense of the value and importance of the achievements of our ancestors ; and, by presenting this... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...already gone ; and that no structure which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial. But our object is, by this edifice, to show our deep sense of the value and importance of the achievements of our ancestors ; and by presenting this... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...already gone ; and that no structure, which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men, can prolong the memorial. But our object is, by this edifice, to show our own deep 20 imagination also,'and sentiment; and that is neitbjr wasted nor misapplied which is appropriated... | |
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We know that no inscription on entablatures less broad than the earth itself can carry information of the events we commemorate where it has not already gone; and that no structure which shall not outlive the duration of letters and knowledge among men,... 
