But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assured, that this declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness... The Works of Daniel Webster - Page 127by Daniel Webster - 1853Full view - About this book
| Boston (Mass.) - 1826 - 426 pages
...may coat treasure, and it may cost blood — • but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see...festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations. On its annual r*turn they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and... | |
| John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but it will stand, and it will richly compen'sate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see...day. When we are in our graves, our children will honour it. They will celebrate it, with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations.... | |
| George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will , richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see...day. When we are in our graves, our children will honour it. They will celebrate it, with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations.... | |
| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...It may cost treasure; and it may cost blood;—but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. —Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in the heavens. We shall make this a glorious day. When we are in our graves, our children will honour... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compen'sate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see...day. When we are in our graves, our children will honour it. They will celebrate it, with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations.... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, is the sun in heaven. We shall make this a glorious, an immortal 1!ay. When we are in our graves, our... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see...day. When we are in our graves, our children will honour it. They will celebrate it, with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires, and illuminations.... | |
| American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood ; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see...day. When we are in our graves, our children will honour it. They will celebrate it with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires and illuminations.... | |
| John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...stand. It may cost treasure, andit may cost blood; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see...glorious, an immortal day. When we are in our graves, our-children will honour it. They will celebrate it, with thanksgiving, with festivity, with bonfires... | |
| Moses Severance - American literature - 1833 - 304 pages
...cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but It will stand, and it will richly compensate11 for t>oth. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the...the sun in heaven. We shall make this a glorious, ;m immortal dny. When we are in our graves pur children wilkhonctr it. They will celebrate it with... | |
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