 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...her work prevail. ic. TENXYSON — In J/c-morium. Pt. CXIII. Knowledge, in truth, is the great snn in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. x. DANTEL, WEKKTER — Address Delivered at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of Bunker НШ Monument.... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - Calendars - 1884 - 396 pages
...with a want of energy, — in plain language, a mixture of cowardice and laziness. William Everett. KNOWLEDGE, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. D. Webster. THE morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if new-born ; There... | |
 | Children's literature, American - 1884 - 530 pages
...them knowledge, which Daniel Webster said, at the laying of the corner stone of Bunker Hill Monument, "is the great sun in the firmament; life and power are scattered with all its beams." His old heart went out, too, toward the sick, and toward orphan children, because these could not earn... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1885 - 68 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. 36. We may hope that the growing influence of enlightened sentiment will promote the permanent peace... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 - 1885 - 74 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...more extended, this conviction becomes more and more l*oneral. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1886 - 246 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...scattered with all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian champion, when enveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness, is the appropriate political supplication... | |
 | Boston (Mass.) - Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 - 1889 - 324 pages
...scattered with all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian combatant, when enveloped in unnatural cloud and darkness, is the appropriate political supplication...every country not yet blessed with free institutions ; •i Dispel this rltnul, the light of heaven restore, Give me TO SEE — and Ajax asks no more."... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 - 1889 - 86 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...more extended, this conviction becomes more and more 660 general. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - United States - 1889 - 816 pages
...the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. The prayer of the Grecian champion, when enveloped in unnatural clouds and darkness, is the appropriate political supplication for the Itople of every country not yet blessed with free institutions : — "liispel this cloud, the light... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 - 1892 - 72 pages
...truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more...extended, this conviction becomes more and more general. Knowl15 edge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its... | |
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... supported by the excess and the abuse of it, are yielding, in our age, to other opinions; and the civilized world seems at last to be proceeding to the conviction of that fundamental and manifest truth, that the powers of government are but a trust,... 
