 | Chandler Eastman Potter - Manchester (N.H.) - 1856 - 942 pages
...passions of assembled savages^ and moulded them to suit the purposes of the speaker. "Hearken,'1 said he^ "to the words of your father. I am an old oak that has withstood the storms of more than an hundred winters. Leaves and branches have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts— my eyes... | |
 | Chandler Eastman Potter - Manchester (N.H.) - 1856 - 948 pages
...jwssions of assembled savages, and moulded them to suit the purposes of the speaker. "Hearken," said he, "to the words of your father. I am an old oak that has withstood the storms of mure than an hundred winters. Leaves and branches have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts—my... | |
 | Austin Jacobs Coolidge, John Brainard Mansfield - Maine - 1859 - 1110 pages
...made from his farewell address, delivered before a vast assemblage of his followers in 1660: — " Hearken to the words of your father. I am an old oak,...storms of more than a hundred winters. Leaves and brandies have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts, — my eyes are dim, — my limbs totter,... | |
 | Austin Jacobs Coolidge, John Brainard Mansfield - Maine - 1860 - 372 pages
...made from his farewell address, delivered before a vast assemblage of his followers in 1660 : — " Hearken to the words of your father. I am an old oak,...and branches have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts, — my eyes are dim, — my limbs totter, — I must soon fall ! But when young and sturdy,... | |
 | J. W. Meader - Merrimack River (N.H. and Mass.) - 1869 - 324 pages
...it may be more properly called his ' ' farewell address" to his people: — " Hearken," said he, " to the words of your father. I am an old oak that has withstood the storms of more than one hundred winters. Leaves and branches have been stripped from me by winds and frosts; my eyes are... | |
 | Jeremiah Peabody Jewett - Barnstead (N.H.) - 1872 - 302 pages
...utterances were tremulous yet musical. Standing erect before that assembled multitude, he said : " Hearken to the words of your Father! I am an old oak...and branches have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts ! My eyes are dim; my limbs totter — I must soon fall! When young no one could bury the... | |
 | Robert Boodey Caverly - Indian captivities - 1875 - 446 pages
...long life, vet musical. Standing erect before that assembled multitude, he delivered this ORATION. " Hearken to the words of your father ! I am an old...than a hundred winters. Leaves and branches have been PASSACONA-WAY'S ORATION. 177 stripped from me by the -winds and frosts. My eyes are dim ; my limbs... | |
 | White mountains, Moses Foster Sweetser - White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) - 1876 - 524 pages
...them to have been a splendid piece of oratory. The following sentences are extracted from it: — " Hearken to the words of your father. I am an old oak,...and branches have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts, — my eyes are dim, — my limbs totter, — I must soon fall! But when young and sturdy,... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - Maine - 1876 - 526 pages
...piece of oratory. The following sentences are extracted from it: — " Hearken to the words of yoor father. I am an old oak, that has withstood the storms...and branches have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts, — my eyes are dim, — my limbs totter, — I must soon fall ! But when young and sturdy,... | |
 | Moses Foster Sweetser - Panoramas - 1882 - 524 pages
...them to have been a splendid piece of oratory. The following sentences are extracted from it: — " Hearken to the words of your father. I am an old oak,...withstood the storms of more than a hundred winters. Leaver and branches have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts, — my eyes are dim, — my... | |
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Hearken to the words of your father. I am an old oak, that has withstood the storms of more than a hundred winters. Leaves and branches have been stripped from me by the winds and frosts, — my eyes are dim, — my limbs totter, — I must soon fall... 
