 | Daniel Webster - 1843 - 48 pages
...affecting, I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patri otism. VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us^ from a former...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... | |
 | 1845 - 564 pages
...affecting, I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. Venerable men ! you have come down to us, from a former...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... | |
 | 1845 - 552 pages
...affecting, I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. Venerable men ! you have come down to us, from a former...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 - 1845 - 458 pages
...THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL, DELIVERED AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former...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 - 1845 - 348 pages
...Speech, delivered at the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, June \"ith, 1825. 1. VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us, from a former...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 - 1845 - 252 pages
...Address, delivered at the laying of the corner stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, June, 17th, 1825.] 1. VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us, from a former...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... | |
 | William Harvey Wells - 1847 - 228 pages
..."The cars have arrived." — "He who overcomes his passions, conquers his greatest enemies." — " Venerable men! you have come, down to us from a former generation." — " Alexander and Napoleon were destroyers of their race." — "Gibbon the historian, was an infidel."... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 524 pages
...affecting, I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patri otism. VENERABLE MEN ! 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, where you stood, fifty years ago, this very... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 612 pages
...where he perished, he portrays what immortal worth is. But the whole passage should be quoted : — " Venerable men ! You have come down to us from a former...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... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 pages
...at laying the Corner-stone of Bunker Hill Monument.] TO THE SURVIVORS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. VENERABLE MEN! You have come down to us from a former...generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out 26 • your lires, that yon might behold this joyous day. You are now where yon stood fifty years ago,... | |
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Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors,... 
