 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 706 pages
...which nothing can exceed. " The tears," says he, " that flow on this fond recital, will never dry up. My heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I write, and I could pour it out like •*water. I could weep, too, for my country, which, mournful as... | |
 | 700 pages
...which nothing can exceed. " The tears," says he, " that flow on this fond recital, will never dry up. My heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I write, and I could pour it out like water. I could weep, too, for my country, which, mournful as it... | |
 | Columbia County (N.Y.) - 1804 - 450 pages
...not for want of gentlenefs or modefly. The tears that flow on this fond recital will never dry up. My heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the' man, grows liquid as I write, and I could pour it out like water. I could weep too 'or my country, which, mournful as it is,... | |
 | Fisher Ames - United States - 1809 - 576 pages
...not for want of gentleness or modesty. THE tears that flow on this fond recital, will never dry up. My heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I write, and I could pour it out like water. I could weep too for my country, which, mournful as it is,... | |
 | 1814 - 564 pages
...virtues of his deceased friend, he adds, " The tears that flow on Ibis fond recital will never dry up — my heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I write, and / could pour it out like water" How beautiful ! the miud from temporary and personal views... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...not for want of gentleness or modesty. The tears that flow on this fond recital will never dry 60 np. My heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I write, and I could pour it out like water. I could weep too for my country, which, mournful as it is,... | |
 | Stephen West Williams - Medicine - 1845 - 774 pages
...language of Ames on the death of Hamilton : ' The tears which flow on the fond recital will never dry up. My heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I write, and I could pour it out like water.' DR. THOMAS G. LEE. Dr. Smith of the Boston Medical and... | |
 | Fisher Ames - United States - 1854 - 464 pages
...not for want of gentleness or modesty. The tears that flow on this fond recital will never dry up. My heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I write, and I could pour it out like water. I could weep too for my country, which, mournful as it is,... | |
 | Edward Griffin Parker - Biography & Autobiography - 1860 - 546 pages
...pronounced the eulogy on Alexander Hamilton he said, " These tears which we shed will never dry up. My heart grows liquid as I speak, and I could pour it out like water." Mr. Choate often alluded to the mournful beauty of these words. But Fisher Ames did not love Alexander... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - United States - 1867 - 616 pages
...and sit empress of the world. Would to God that he had been spared to complete a life of threescore and ten years, for the sake of his country and posterity....from our sight and gone down into the dark waters. " So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams,... | |
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The tears that flow on this fond recital will never dry up. My heart, penetrated with the remembrance of the man, grows liquid as I write, and I could pour it out like water. 
