 | Cornelius Van Santvoord - American essays - 1856 - 474 pages
...sincere devotion, to liberty and the country ; or if I sec an uncommon endowment of heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue, in any son of the...and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth." The spirit of these words is so manly and catholic, there is such a serious and convincing... | |
 | History - 1857 - 650 pages
...sincere devotion to liberty, and the country ; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven — if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the...pleasing recollections — let me indulge in refreshing remembrances of the past — let me remind you that in early times, no States cherished greater harmony,... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 690 pages
...sincere devotion to liberty, and the country ; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven — if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the...and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth l Sir, let me recur to pleasing recollections — let me indulge in refreshing remembrances... | |
 | Salem Town - 1857 - 524 pages
...sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the...get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his juft character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ! 4. Sir, let me recur to... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...and the country'; or if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven'; if I see extraordinary capacity or virtue in any son of the South'; and if, moved by...gangrened by state jealousy^, I get up here to abate a tithe of a hair"" from his just character and just 'fame', may my tongue cleave to the roof of my... | |
 | History - 1857 - 642 pages
...nary capacity and virtue in any son of the Soatt — and if, moved by local prejudice, or gW' grened for an infant, a distant, and an alien people ; and all feel and own the very great a" just fame, may my tongue cleave to the KM of my mouth 1 Sir, let me recur to pleasing recollections--... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 656 pages
...endowment of Heaven — if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of tho South —rand if, moved by local prejudice, or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abato the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the root'... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1858 - 460 pages
...sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven — if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the...and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth I " Sir, let me recur to pleasing recollections — let me indulge in refreshing remembrance... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...see extraordinary capacity and virtne in any son of the Sonth — and if, moved by local prejndice, or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate...hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongne cleave to the roof of my nionthl in refreshing remembrance of the past — let me remind yon... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 pages
...sincere devotion to liberty and the country ; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven, if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue, in any son of the...by local prejudice or gangrened by state jealousy, 1 get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may ray tongue cleave... | |
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State or neighborhood; when I refuse for any such cause, or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven — if I see extraordinary... 
