 ... arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monuments of its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin.  The Western Monthly Review - Page 652edited by - 1830Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 1166 pages
...will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked: it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still...it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proud- ' est monuments of its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin. _' ' There yet remains... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...will stand in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked ; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still...its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin. 69. ADAMS AND JEFFERSON. Witt. In the structure of their characters ; in the course of their action... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...that cradle in which its infancy was rocked ; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigour it may still retain, over the friends who gather round...its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin. THE HORRORS OF WAR. REAL war, my friends, is a very different thing from that painted image of it,... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...vigour it may still retain, over the friends who gather around it; and it will fall at last, if falfit must, amidst the proudest monuments of its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin. I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honour of the... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - Orators - 1839 - 108 pages
...made sure ; in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked, it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still...last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monuments of^te own glory, and on the very spot of its origin. CHABACTER OF FRIENDS. Whenr, sir, were the Society... | |
 | Oratory - 1840 - 452 pages
...stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigour it may still retain, over the friends who gather around it; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst...its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin. I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept •teadily in view the prosperity and honour of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1841 - 682 pages
...cradle (Boston) in which its infancy was rocked : it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigour it may still retain, over the friends who gather round...its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin.' The extract relating to Greece contains a quotation from Milton, and the last a paraphrase of Dryden.... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - American literature - 1842 - 426 pages
...it will stretch forth its arm, with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who may gather round it; and it will fall at last, if fall...its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin. But, although there are fears, there are hopes also. The people have preserved this, their own chosen... | |
 | Samuel Osgood - American literature - 1842 - 408 pages
...will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked ; it will stretch forth its arm, with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who may gather round it; and it will fall at last, if fall it must, amidst the proudest monuments of its... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...will stand in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked ; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still...its own glory, and on the very spot of its origin. 69. ADAMS AND JEFFERSON. Wirt. In the structure of their characters ; in the course of their action... | |
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