 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, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise till it meet the sun...  Webster's First Bunker-Hill Oration - Page 20by Daniel Webster - 1889 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1825 - 574 pages
...the Bunker Hill Monument Association. It is all sensible, some of it powerful ; it concludes thas : " We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight...the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." Next follows a rapid enumeration... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument - 1825 - 52 pages
...to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight...the 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... | |
 | 1824 - 494 pages
...Monument Association. It is all sensible, some of it powerful; it concludes thus : " We wish, fmally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves...the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." Next follows a rapid enumeration... | |
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1825 - 920 pages
...to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight...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
...to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight...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
...to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight...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
...is all sensihle, some of it 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 the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit !" Fellow-citizens, what contemplations... | |
 | Robert Walsh - American literature - 1831 - 722 pages
...to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight...the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit." Pp. 58-9. The last formal address... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. Wo wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of...meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit. We live in a most extraordinary... | |
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