 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...of industry and enterprise. Ere long, the sons of the Pilgrims will be on the shores of tho Pacific. The imagination hardly keeps up with the progress of population, improvement, and civilisation. It is now five and forty years, since the growth and rising glory of America were portrayed... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - Legislators - 1854 - 554 pages
...of industry and enterprise. Ere long, the sons of the Pilgrims will be on the shores of the Pacific. The imagination hardly keeps up with the progress of population, improvement, and civilization. It is now five-and-forty years since the growth and rising glory of America were portrayed in the English... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...industry and enterprise. Ere long, the sons of the Pilgrims will be on the shores of the Pacific.6 The imagination hardly keeps up with the progress of population, improvement, and civilization. It is now five-and-forty years since the growth and rising glory of America were portrayed in the English... | |
 | John D. Seelye - History - 1998 - 724 pages
...liberty and religion. . . . Ere long, the sons of the Pilgrims will be on the shores of the Pacific. The imagination hardly keeps up with the progress of population, improvement, and civilization" (206-7). What Sylvanus Conant and his generation credited to Providence, Webster, following John Quincy... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 590 pages
...of industry and enterprise. Ere long, the sons of the Pilgrims will be on the shores of the Pacific. The imagination hardly keeps up with the progress of population, improvement, and civilization. It is now five-and-forty years since the growth and rising glory of America were portrayed in the English... | |
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... people, descendants of New England ancestry, living, free and happy, in regions which hardly sixty years ago were tracts of unpenetrated forest. Nor do rivers, or mountains, or seas resist the progress of industry and enterprise. Ere long, the sons... 