 | Charles Phillips - 1817 - 248 pages
...have mouldered, and the night of barbarism obscured its very ruins, that that mighty continent may not emerge from the horizon, to rule for its time sovereign...unsubstantial mockery of human pride. But I should, perhaps, apologize for this digression. The tombs are at best a sad although an instructive subject.... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1817 - 234 pages
...have mouldered, and the night of barbarism obscured its very ruins, that that mighty continent may not emerge from the horizon, to rule for its time sovereign...unsubstantial mockery of human pride. But I should, perhaps, apologize for this digression. The tombs are at best a sad although an instructive subject.... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Speeches, addresses, etc., Irish - 1820 - 296 pages
...have mouldered, and the night of barbarism obscured its very ruins, that that mighty continent may not emerge from the horizon, to rule for its time sovereign of the ascendant! that it cleared ; how bright in the brow of the firmament was the planet which it revealed to us !... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Readers - 1820 - 226 pages
...shall have mouldered, and the night of barbarism obscured its very ruins, thai mighty continent may not emerge from the horizon to rule for its time sovereign of the ascendant! THE AMERICAN PRECEPTOR. CONCLUSION OF THE FOREGOING SPEECH. SUCH, Sir, is the natural progress of human... | |
 | Charles Phillips - Forensic orations - 1821 - 278 pages
...have mouldered, and the night of barbarism obscured its very ruins, that that mighty continent may not emerge from the horizon, to rule for its time sovereign...unsubstantial mockery of human pride. But I should, perhaps, apologize for this digression. The tombs are at best a sad although an instructive subject.... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...and the young America yet fcour to what Aihcns was ? Happily, when the European column sha,Ui Jiave mouldered, and the night of barbarism obscured its...unsubstantial mockery of human pride. But I should apologise lor this digression — the tombs are at best a sad, although an instruct live subject. At... | |
 | African Americans - 1826 - 238 pages
...•• from the horizon, to rule for its time sovereign o!' ndant! CONCLUSION OF THE FOREGOING SPEECH. , sir, is the natural progress of human operations,...unsubstantial mockery of human pride. But I should, perhaps, apologize for this digression. The tombs are at besta sad, although an instructive subject.... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1828 - 314 pages
...have mouldered, and the night of barbarism obscured its very ruins, that that mighty continent may not emerge from the horizon, to rule for its time sovereign of the ascendant ! Such is the natural progress of human operations, and such the mockery of human pride. LESSON XXVIII. The... | |
 | John Pierpont - Children's literature - 1828 - 320 pages
...shall have mouldered, and the night of barbarism obscured its very ruins, that mighty continent may not emerge from the horizon, to rule, for its time, sovereign of the ascendant ! * * * * Sir, it matters very little what immediate spot may have been the birth-placef of such a... | |
 | John Pierpont - Readers - 1829 - 290 pages
...have mouldered, and the night op barbarism obscured its very ruins, that mighty continent rray not emerge from the horizon, to rule, for its time, sovereign of the ascendant ! * * * * Sir, it 'matters very little what immediate spot may have been the birth-placef of such a... | |
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... contemplating the past, that England, proud and potent as she appears, may not one day be what Athens is, and the young America yet soar to be what Athens was! Who shall say, when the European column shall have mouldered, and the night of barbarism... 
