 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 pages
...since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty ; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness...name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on." A mass meeting of the Whigs of the district was held at Springfield on the ist of March,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1923 - 700 pages
...the birthday of Washington, and is strikingly appropriate to be quoted with reference to its author. "On that name an eulogy is expected. It cannot be....name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on." OPPORTUNITY BY LOUISE PATTERSON GUYOL Some call her unforgiving, adamant, Never-returning... | |
 | Michigan State Horticultural Society - 1887 - 616 pages
...since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness...name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on." This man, "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," was... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1889 - 486 pages
...since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness...name, and in its naked, deathless' splendor, leave it shining on." In the subject eulogized, the words spoken, and the rev-crential bearing of the orator,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 536 pages
...since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness...name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on." A mass meeting of the Whigs of the district was held at Springfield on the 1st of March,... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 544 pages
...since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty ; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness...name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on." A mass meeting of the Whigs of the district was held at Springfield on the 1st of March,... | |
 | Edwin Allison Schell - 1893 - 228 pages
...Lincoln. No words can make a eulogy for him. As he himself once said of Washington : "Let none attempt to add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Abraham Lincoln. He is beyond all eulogy. In solemn awe pronounce his name, and in its naked, deathless... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 pages
...since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness...name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining on. February 25, 1842. — LETTER TO JOSHUA P. SPEED. SPRINGFIELD, February 25, 1842. Dear... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 pages
...civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name...name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on. UNIVER.S.ITYOF.MICHIC5AN 3 9015 06382 3572 X 457 T47 1894 COY II ... | |
 | David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 250 pages
...civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name...name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN • • ..: - ' ! • . I . ; i . • . ^^^^B . • ' • . m "'-.--... | |
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Washington is the mightiest name of earth — long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is... 
