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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. "
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1902
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Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection ...

Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 pages
...prelate of England, who bestowed his benefactions, 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,...
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The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse from the Writings of ...

Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 1841 - 374 pages
...ages shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The/our first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. 173Q. THE TRAILING ARBUTUS. BY SAEAH H. WHITMAN. THERE'S a flower that grows by the greenwood tree,...
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The Desire of Reputation: An Address, Before the Phoenix and Union Societies ...

Albert Barnes - 1841 - 40 pages
...young ' , . > . When heavenly flame did animate her 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." THE END. FORNIA...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 67

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 682 pages
...noblest empire of time.' The line of verse is taken from a stanza by Bishop Berkeley : " 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." How lamentably the...
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The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse from the Writings of ...

Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 1841 - 362 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate the 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. 1730. 34 THE TRAILING...
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The Rhode-Island Book: Selections in Prose and Verse from the Writings of ...

Anne C. Lynch (Anne Charlotte Lyn Botta, Anne C. Lynch - 1841 - 376 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate the 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. 1730. THE TRAILING...
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Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe, Founder of the Colony of Georgia ...

Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1841 - 466 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her 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.—PAGE. 10....
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History of the Colonization of the United States, Volume 2

George Bancroft - 1841 - 366 pages
...— The good and great inspiring epic rage — 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...
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Critical Essays on a Few Subjects Connected with the History and Present ...

Francis Bowen - 1842 - 388 pages
...seems to present again the old combination of the poetical and prophetic character. " 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." But of all the...
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Missions: Their Authority, Scope and Encouragement. An Essay

Richard Winter Hamilton - 1842 - 432 pages
...slavery has too recently been put away from us, that we should haughtily bear ourselves. * " 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." BISHOP BERKELEY....
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