A more interesting spectacle, it is believed, was never witnessed, because none could be founded on purer principles, none proceed from higher or more disinterested motives. That the feelings of those who had fought and bled with him in a common cause... The American Monitor - Page 3391824Full view - About this book
| Transportation - 1825 - 252 pages
...and military, who had shared with him in the toils and dangers of the war, many of them in a decrepid state. A more interesting spectacle, it is believed,...touched the breasts of every age, even the youngest among us. There was not an individual present, who had not some relative who had partaken in those... | |
| 1825 - 436 pages
...and military, who had shared with him in the toils and dangers of the war, many of them in a decrepid state. A more interesting spectacle, it is believed,...touched the breasts of every age, even the youngest among us. There was not an individual present, who had not some rejative who had not partaken in those... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...is believed, was never witnessed, because none could be founded on purer principles, — noneproceed from higher or more disinterested motives. That the...touched the breasts of every age, even the youngest among us. There was not an individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those... | |
| United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 766 pages
...toils and dangers of the war, many of them in a decrepit state. A more interesting spectacle, it w believed, was never witnessed, because none could...touched the breasts of every age, even the youngest among us. There was not an individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those... | |
| United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...department. believed, was never witnessed, because none could be founded on purer principles—none proceed from higher or more disinterested motives....touched the breasts of every age, even the youngest among us. There was not an individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those... | |
| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 776 pages
...accommodation in his power. At every designated point of rendezvous, the whole population of the neighboring country has been assembled to greet him, among whom...touched the breasts of every age, even the youngest among us. There was not an individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those... | |
| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 772 pages
...toils and dangers of the war, many of them in a decrepit state. A more interesting spectacle,' it U believed, was never witnessed, because none could...touched the breasts of every age, even the youngest among us. There was not an individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those... | |
| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 774 pages
...dangers of the war, many of them in a decrepit state. A more interesting spectacle, it is beh'eved, was never witnessed, because none could be founded...touched the breasts of every age, even the youngest among us. There was not an individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Portraits, American - 1862 - 688 pages
...message. " A more interesting spectacle," he said, with some reference perhaps to his own recollections, " it is believed was never witnessed, because none could...common cause should have been much excited was natural. But the circumstance which was most sensibly felt, and which his presence brought to the mind of all,... | |
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