 There is a local feeling connected with this occasion, too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene of our history was laid ; where the hearths and altars...  The North American Review - Page 11edited by - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Webster - 1860 - 542 pages
...occasion, too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...with a wilderness, and peopled by roving barbarians. We are here, at the season of the year at which the event took place. The imagination irresistibly... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1860 - 648 pages
...England were first placed; where Christianity, and civilization, and letters made their first lodgement, in a vast extent of country, covered with a wilderness, and peopled by roving hnrbarians. We are here, at the season of the year at which the event took place. The imagination irresistibly... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - English language - 1867 - 346 pages
...are, where, whither, whence, wherever, whithersoever, as far as, as long as, farther than. Ex. — We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene of our history was laid. — Webster. (2.) Connectives which denote time: these are, when, while, whilst, as, before, after,... | |
 | Otis Frederick Reed Waite - New England - 1871 - 254 pages
...occasion, too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...Christianity, and civilization, and letters made their first lodgement, in a vast extent of country, covered with a wilderness and peopled by roving barbarians.... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...occasion, too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...with a wilderness, and peopled by roving barbarians. We are here at the season of the year at which the event took place. The imagination irresistibly and... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1879 - 780 pages
...occasion, too strong to be resisted; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...Christianity, and civilization, and letters made their first lodgement, in a vast extent of country, covered with a wilderness, and peopled by roving barbarians.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1881 - 650 pages
...occasion, too strong to be resisted; a sort of genius uf the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...New England were first placed; where Christianity, ami civilization, and letters made their first lodgement. ; na vast extent of country, covered with... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1886 - 246 pages
...occasion, too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...with a wilderness, and peopled by roving barbarians. We are here, at the season of the year at which the event took place. The imagination irresistibly... | |
 | Plymouth (Mass.). Historic Festival Committee - Plymouth (Mass.) - 1897 - 90 pages
...children, — look, by power oppressed, Beyond the mountains of the West Their children go to die!" E feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...with a wilderness and peopled by roving barbarians. The imagination irresistibly and rapidly draws around us the principal features and the leading characters... | |
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