 | United States - 1825 - 398 pages
...Was it the winter's storm, beating upon the houseless heads of women and children ; was it hard labor and spare meals ; — was it disease, — was it the...important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious ? Such, in a very inadequate statement, are some of the circumstances under which the set55 dement... | |
 | Theology - 1825 - 688 pages
...conventions and treaties had not smiled, languish on the distant coast < Student of history, compare for me the baffled projects, the deserted settlements, the...important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious r pp. 54, 55. Yet he is not faultless. He sometimes acts the philosopher and endeavours to raise refined... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 286 pages
...of history, compare for me the baffled projects, the deserted settlements, the abandoned adventurers of other times, and find the parallel of this. Was...important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious ? LESSON CXV. Miseries of Book-Lending. — ANONYMOUS. THE miseries of book-making, and of book-selling,... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...possible that neither of these causes, that not all combined, were able to blast this bud of hope 1— 90 Is it possible, that from a beginning so feeble, so...important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious 1 Everett. 56. The Progress of Poesy. Woods, that wave o'er Delphi's steep ; Isles, that crown the... | |
 | George Merriam - Readers - 1828 - 282 pages
...of these causes, that not all combined, were able to blast this bud of hope ? Is it possible, tliat, from a beginning so feeble, so frail, so worthy, not...reality so important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorieus ? LESSON CXV. Miseries of Book-Lending. — ANONYMOUS. THE miseries of book-making, and of... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...admiration as of pity, there has gone forth a progress so steady, a growth so wonderful, an expan sion so ample, a reality so important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious! * * * * I do not fear that we shall be accused of extravagance in the enthusiasm we feel at a train... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - English language - 1829 - 62 pages
...a ruined enterprise, and a broken heart, aching, in its last moments, at the recollection of those loved, and left beyond the sea ; — was it some,...important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious ! I do not fear that we shall be accused of extravagance in the enthusiasm we feel at a train of events... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...admiration as of pity, there has gone forth a progress so steady, a growth so wonderful, an expan sion so ample, a reality so important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious ! * * * * I do not fear that we shall be accused of extravagance in the enthusiasm we feel at a train... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 416 pages
...possible that neither of these causes, that not all combined, were able to blast this bud of hope ? — 90 Is it possible, that from a beginning so feeble, so...reality so important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so gloriods ? Everttt. 56. The Progress of Poesy. Woods, that wave o'er Delphi's steep ; Isles, that crown... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...from a beginning so feeble, so frail, so worthy, not BO much of admiration as of pity, there has gqnc forth a progress so steady, a growth so wonderful,...important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious ? XLVI. THE LAMJIXO OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS. Mr . llcmans. Written, 1825. Tun breaking waves dashed... | |
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And is it possible, that neither of these causes, that not all combined, were able to blast this bud of hope? Is it possible, that from a beginning so feeble, so frail, so worthy not so much of admiration as of pity, there has gone forth a progress so... 
