| Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 páginas
...childhood and for man. with Prescott and Putnam and Warren through the experiences of the first fire. " Americans," said an orator of France, " begin with...Washington." Hang on his neck on that birthday and on that day of death at Mount Vernon, the medal of Congress, by its dark ribbon; tell him the story... | |
| Rufus Choate - 1891 - 594 páginas
...the Union, to raise it high, to make it broad and deep, to instruct it, to educate it, is in sotne things harder, some things easier ; but it may be...and that day of his death at Mount Vernon, the Medal oi Congress, by its dark ribbon ; tell him the story of the flag, as it passes glittering along the... | |
| 1891 - 828 páginas
...must be done. Our country has her great names, she has her food for patriotism, for childhood, and for man. "Americans," said an orator of France, "begin...Washington. Hang on his neck on that birthday and on that day of death at Mount Vernon, the medal of Congress, by it8 dark ribbon; tell him the story... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 454 páginas
...her great names; she, too, has her food for patriotism, for childhood, for man. " Americans," §aid an orator of France, " begin with the infant in the...neck on that birthday and that day of his death at Hount Vernon the medal of Congress, by its dark ribbon; tell him the story of the flag, as it passes... | |
| National Americana Society - 1923 - 804 páginas
...Franklin, and the adventures of "Old Put." On the title page appears the motto, quoted from Mirabeau: "Begin with the infant in the cradle; let the first word he lisps be WASHINGTON." In his preface the writer says that the school readers employed are deficient in interest to the youth... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1932 - 220 páginas
...War. Albany, 1813. The laudatory character is evident from the admonitory quotation of the title-page: "Begin with the infant in the cradle: let the first word he lisps be Washington." 109. CONDIE, THOMAS — Memoirs of George Washington, Esq., late President of the United States. Philadelphia,... | |
| Walter Berns - 2002 - 164 páginas
...put on its title page, a quote from the pen of the French republican revolutionist Count Mirabeau: "Begin with the infant in the cradle; let the first word he lisps be Washington." Webster's reader is essentially a collection of edifying stories and speeches (with instructions for... | |
| Rufus Choate - 2002 - 460 páginas
...draw on, and love and the sense of home and security and of property under law, come to life;—and as the story goes round, and as the book or the newspaper...glittering along the road; bid him listen to that plain, old fashioned, stirring music of the Union; lead him when school is out at evening to the grave of... | |
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