 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 páginas
...EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS BY DANIEL WEBSTER TO SOME AGED SOLDIERS OF THE REVOLUTION. "Venerable men! You have come down to us from a former generation....shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, iiow altered ! The same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but... | |
 | 1896 - 728 páginas
...almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation....day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, •chis very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors} shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your... | |
 | 1906 - 594 páginas
...used to ride. He lef it to me in his will ! " THE SCRAP BOOK. LITTLE GEMS FROM WEBSTER. VENERABLE men! You have come down to us from a former generation....that you might behold this joyous day. You are now v.here you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to... | |
 | Harry Anton Auer - 1906 - 268 páginas
...time; Daniel "Webster confesses that the beautiful thought of his Bunker Hill oration "Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation,...lengthened out your lives that you might behold this happy day," came to him while wading a crystal trout stream. But, though no such thoughts come to us... | |
 | 1913 - 620 páginas
...and the passage addressed to them was perhaps the most effective part of his oration. (ENERABLE men! you have come down to us from a former generation....Behold, how altered ! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of... | |
 | Tuley Francis Huntington - 1908 - 410 páginas
...the dedication of the National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863. Venerable Men I you have come down to us from a former generation....in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered I The same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but all else how... | |
 | Sylvester Barbour - 1908 - 212 páginas
...American Revolution, just fifty years after the battle fought on that historic spot: "Venerable men! You have come down to us from a former generation...your lives that you might behold this joyous day!" Substituting "woman" for "men" and "life" for "lives," the words may be used fittingly on this interesting... | |
 | George Washington - 1908 - 98 páginas
...almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened s0 out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago,... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - 1908 - 622 páginas
...O'HAGAJC. TO THE SURVIVORS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. T7EN ERABLE men : You have come down to us from V a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you .might iSehold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1909 - 368 páginas
...Daniel as, standing middle deep in the stream, he uttered these sonorous words : " Venerable men ! You have come down to us from a former generation....your lives that you might behold this joyous day." I think Daniel Webster for the most part reasoned out his choice of words; he left the dictionary work... | |
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VENERABLE MEN! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors,... 
