| Great Britain - 1845 - 564 pages
...overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. Venerable men ! you have come down to us, from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened...country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens are mdeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but all eke, how changed ! You hear now... | |
| Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1845 - 552 pages
...overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. Venerable men ! you have come down to us, from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened...very hour, with your brothers, and your neighbors, siioulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens are mdeed... | |
| John Frost - Elocution - 1845 - 458 pages
...THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened...ago, this very hour, with your brothers, and your neighbours, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens... | |
| Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, June \"ith, 1825. 1. VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us, from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened...you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your Orothers, and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. * J wcnh Warren,... | |
| Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1845 - 252 pages
...stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, June, 17th, 1825.] 1. VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us, from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened...your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. 2. You are now upon the heights of Bunker, where you stood, fifty years ago, this very hour, with your... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1848 - 524 pages
...you have come down to us, from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your livesy that you might behold this joyous day. You are now,...ago, this very hour, with your brothers, and your neighbours, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - Orators - 1849 - 612 pages
...immortal worth is. But the whole passage should be quoted : — " Venerable men ! You have come down to us from a former generation. HeaVen has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you may behold this joyous day. You are now, where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your... | |
| Charles Wainwright March - Lawyers - 1850 - 320 pages
...most impressive language. With him Mr. Webster enjoyed the best operable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened...your lives, that you might behold this joyous day." As these identical sentences appeared afterwards in the Bunker-Hill Address, it would seem as if there... | |
| Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...storm that howls along the sky. Smollet. SEC. LIII. THE SURVIVORS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. 2 mer generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out...lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are 1 Venerable men! you have come down to us from a for3 now, where you stood, fifty years ago, this very... | |
| Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...lires, that yon might behold this joyous day. You are now where yon stood fifty years ago, this rery hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife of your country. Behold how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls... | |
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