 | United States - 1839 - 622 pages
...clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way— The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." ODE, WBITTIN TOR THZ FIFTIETH ANM vv.RSARV OF THE IHAT/GUHATION Of WASHINGTON, APRIL 3l>, 1SS9. By... | |
 | United States - 1839 - 630 pages
...clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way— The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." ODE, WRITTEN FOR THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE IH AtTGUBATIOir OF WASHINGTON, APRIL 3D, 1839. By... | |
 | Ohio - 1839 - 358 pages
...United States: « Westward the Star of Empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is her last." Meantime at the head of the NEW THIRTEEN, our own Ohio proudly stands; and the experience... | |
 | Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio - Ohio - 1839 - 356 pages
...the United States: " Westward the Star of Empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is her last." Meantime at the head of the NEW THIRTEEN, our own Ohio proudly stands; and the experience... | |
 | 1840 - 288 pages
...famous prediction of Bishop Berkeley : " Westward the coarse of empire takes it way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last." THE WORSHIPFUL MASTER in the chair : At the conclusion of a paper we are always glad to hear any remarks... | |
 | Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 440 pages
...as well as blessings, on our Country ; "Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last." In that high romance, if romance it be, in which the great minds of antiquity sketched the fortunes... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1840 - 554 pages
...on our country, " Westward the star of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, The fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last " * Milton's Defensio Secunda, In that high romance, if romance it be, in which the great minds of... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - Georgia - 1841 - 456 pages
...clay , By future ages shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way, — The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with...the day, — Time's noblest offspring is the last. IV. — PASE 10. REFERENCE TO DEBATES IN THE BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS IN WHICH OGLETHORPE TOOK A FART.... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1841 - 366 pages
...The wisest heads and noblest hearts. » Westward the course of empire takes its way. The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest offspring is the last." To free schools and colleges the periodical press had been added, and newspapers began their office... | |
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Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. 
