 We can win no laurels in a war for independence. Earlier and worthier hands have gathered them all. Nor are there places for us by the side of Solon, and Alfred, and other founders of states. Our fathers have filled them. But there remains to us a great...  Official Report ... Annual Convention - Page 191by National Association of Builders of the United States of America - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Harry Pratt Judson, Ida C. Bender - Readers - 1901 - 266 pages
...for us by the side of Solon and Alfred and other founders of 5 states. Our fathers have filled them. But there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 - 1901 - 88 pages
...courage and the endurance of their fathers. We can win no laurels in a war for independence, . . . but there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation." The last sentence of the peroration returns again, by a subtle oratorical device, to the subject of... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 354 pages
...for us by the side of Solon, and Alfred, and other founders of states. Our fathers have filled them. But there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper... | |
 | Joseph Benson Gilder - United States - 1902 - 346 pages
...for us by the side of Solon, and Alfred, and other founders of states. Our fathers have filled them. But there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper... | |
 | 1902 - 494 pages
...for us by the side of Solon, and Alfred, and other founders of States. Our fathers, have filled them. But there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper... | |
 | Elizabeth Armstrong Reed - Biography & Autobiography - 1903 - 190 pages
...for us by the side of Solon and Alfred, and other founders of States. Our fathers have filled them. But there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation ; and there is opened to us also a noble pursuit to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1906 - 604 pages
...win no laurels in a war for independence. Eariier and worthier hands have gathered them all. . . . But there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper... | |
 | Charles Swain Thomas, Will David Howe - English language - 1908 - 536 pages
...for us by the side of Solon, and Alfred, and other founders of states. Our fathers have filled them. But there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - Culture - 1911 - 408 pages
...for us by the side of Solon, and Alfred, and other founders of states. Our fathers have filled them. But there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper... | |
 | Horace Leslie Brittain - Readers - 1911 - 284 pages
...for us by the side of Solon and Alfred, and other founders of states. Our fathers have filled them. But there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper... | |
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