We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object... Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 59by Daniel Webster - 1848Full view - About this book
| Daniel Webster - Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) - 1825 - 44 pages
...heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude....his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in bis coming ; let the earliest light of the 9 morning gild it, and patting dtty Itage* and play on its... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 506 pages
...heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude....him of the liberty and the glory of his country." — pp. 8, 9. Among the greatest curses of a monarchical government, are the wars undertaken to gratify... | |
| Literature - 1825 - 492 pages
...is all sensihle, some of it powerful; it concludes thus : " We wish, finally, that the last ohject on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may he something which shall remind him of the liherty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till... | |
| Montgomery Robert Bartlett - Education - 1828 - 426 pages
...to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, pious emoions of gratitude and love. We wish, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden him who revisits it,—may be "something that shall remind him of the liberty and glory of his country.... | |
| American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude....something which shall remind him of the liberty and glory of his country- Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of morning... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...heaven, among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finallytthat the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God', may contribute also to produce', in all minds', a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude'....leaves his native shore', and the first to gladden his heart who revisits it', may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 292 pages
...heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude....finally, that the last object on the sight of him wha leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall... | |
| Speeches, Addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 552 pages
...heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude....something which shall remind him of the liberty and the 37* 438 MR. WEBSTER'S ADDRESS glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming... | |
| John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude....leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden him who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and glory of his country.... | |
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