 We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object...  Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 59by Daniel Webster - 1830 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1824 - 494 pages
...powerful; it concludes thus : " We wish, fmally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." Next follows a rapid enumeration of the great events which have taken place since the battle of Bunker... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument - 1825 - 52 pages
...dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits...sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the 2 morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. We live in a most extraordinary age.... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1825 - 920 pages
...dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits...country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his comin?; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1825 - 44 pages
...dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits...his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in bis coming ; let the earliest light of the 9 morning gild it, and patting dtty Itage* and play on its... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 506 pages
...dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits...him of the liberty and the glory of his country." — pp. 8, 9. Among the greatest curses of a monarchical government, are the wars undertaken to gratify... | |
 | Literature - 1825 - 492 pages
...powerful; it concludes thus : " We wish, finally, that the last ohject on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may he something which shall remind him of the liherty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till... | |
 | 1863 - 538 pages
...to carry higher and still higher this monument. May I say, as on another occasion, " Let it rise ; let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit !" Fellow-citizens, what contemplations are awakened in our minds as we assemble here to re-enact a... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1831 - 722 pages
...dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." Pp. 58-9. The last formal address delivered by Mr. Webster on any great public occasion, was unexpectedly... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. Extract from BEMAN'S Address before the Graduates of Middlebury. Far be it from me to cherish, in any... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits...it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. LESSON CXXXI. Address to the Survivors' of the Bunker Hill Battle, and of the Revolutionary Army.—From... | |
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