He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse... The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 161edited by - 1887Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Booksellers and bookselling - 1865 - 878 pages
...temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood an heroic figure in the center of an heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. William C. Bryant, our venerable poet, composed the following immortal hymn for the obsequies in New... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - Electronic book - 1865 - 296 pages
...temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood an heroic figure in the centre of an heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which, in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies, is... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - 1865 - 300 pages
...temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood an heroic figure in the centre of ail heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Adam Smith remarks that the axe', which, in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies, is... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Booksellers and bookselling - 1865 - 980 pages
...He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them ; blow with their slowness ; quickening his march by theirs...the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue William C. Bryant, our venerable poet, composed the following immortal hymn for the obsequies in New... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Great Britain - 1881 - 274 pages
...temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood, an heroic figure in the centre of an heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." Throughout England there were but two feelings upon the subject — abhorrence of the crime and sympathy... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 416 pages
...them, — slow with their slowness, quickening his march with theirs ; the true representative of his continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. " Adam Smith remarks that the ax, which, in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies, is... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 406 pages
...them, — slow with their slowness, quickening his march with theirs ; the true representative oi his continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his...throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds artidulated by his tongue. " Adam Smith remarks that the ax, which, in Houbraken's portraits of British... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...figure in the centre of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his_tuufi Step by step he walked before them ; slow with their...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 440 pages
...walked before them; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true represent tative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved... | |
 | Edward A. Thomas - Biography - 1883 - 654 pages
...the true history of the American people in his time — the true representative of this continent, father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." Lincoln, Benjamin, an American general ; born in Massachusetts in 1733; was commissioned a major-general... | |
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