 | Alexander Kelly McClure - Orators - 1902 - 404 pages
...them. But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation; and there is opened to us also a noble pursuit to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace let us advance the arts of peace and the works... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1903 - 386 pages
...But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation, and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the... | |
 | Elizabeth Armstrong Reed - Biography & Autobiography - 1903 - 190 pages
...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 business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace let us advance the arts of peace. Let us develop... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 464 pages
...them. But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation ; and there is opened to us also a noble pursuit to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace let us advance the arts of peace and the works... | |
 | American literature - 1904 - 496 pages
...But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - Orators - 1904 - 566 pages
...But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the. arts of peace and the... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Fred Newton Scott - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1905 - 172 pages
...But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the... | |
 | George Washington - Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 - 1906 - 136 pages
...there remains to us a great duty of defence and preserva- 10 tion ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace arid the... | |
 | Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1906 - 604 pages
...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 business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the... | |
 | 1896 - 728 pages
...But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit, to which the spirit of the times...strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. Let our age be the age of improvement. In a day of peace, let us advance the arts of peace and the... | |
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But there remains to us a great duty of defence and preservation; and there is opened to us also a noble pursuit to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper business is improvement. 
