Let it not be supposed that our object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit. It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit of national independence, and we wish that the light of peace may... American Quarterly Review - Page 313edited by - 1831Full view - About this book
| Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1825 - 920 pages
...object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit. It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit...that the light of peace may rest upon it for ever. AVe rear a memorial of our conviction of that unmeasured benefit, which has been conferred on our own... | |
| Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument - 1825 - 52 pages
...object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit. It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit...and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever. We rear a memorial of our conviction of that unmeasured benefit, which has been conferred... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit. It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit...and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever. We rear a memorial of our conviction of that unmeasured benefit, which has been conferred... | |
| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a military spirit:—our object is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit...and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever. We rear a memorial of our conviction of that unmeasured benefit, which has been conferred... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit. It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit...and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever. We rear a memorial of our conviction of that unmeasured benefit, which has been conferred... | |
| William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit. It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit...and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever. We rear a memorial of our conviction oi' that unmeasured benefit, which has been conferred... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...object is to perpetuate national hostility, or eyen to cherish a mere military spirit It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit...and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever. We rear a memorial of our conviction of that unmeasured benefit, which has been conferred... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit. It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit...and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever. We rear a memorial of our conviction of that unmeasured benefit, which has been conferred... | |
| George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit...national independence, and we wish that the light * In an able article on the battle of Bunker's Hill, which is found in the North American Review, 1818,... | |
| American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...object is to perpetuate national hostility, or even to cherish a mere military spirit. It is higher, purer, nobler. We consecrate our work to the spirit...and we wish that the light of peace may rest upon it forever. We rear ^memorial of our conviction of that unmeasured benefit, which has been conferred on... | |
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