 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...  Advanced Lessons in Everyday English - Page 108by Emma Miller Bolenius - 1921 - 414 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 pages
...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 alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1923 - 700 pages
...appropriate to be quoted with reference to its author. "On that name an eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it... | |
 | Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 pages
...civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it... | |
 | Michigan State Horticultural Society - 1887 - 616 pages
...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 alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it... | |
 | John Carroll Power - 1889 - 486 pages
...civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless' splendor, leave... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 544 pages
...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 alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 pages
...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 alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it... | |
 | 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 of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it... | |
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