 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated a hemisphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the...of a land he might be almost said to have created ! Happy, proud America! The lightnings of heaven yielded to your philosophy ! The temptations of earth... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation. Who, like WASHINGTON, after having emancipated a hemisphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the...just less than sage ? All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee, Far less than all thou hast forborne to be. Such, sir, is the testimony of one not... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1859 - 606 pages
...; Beneath whose sword Columbia's patriot train Cast off their monarch, that their mob might reign ! How shall we rank thee upon glory's page ? Thou more than soldier and just less than sage ! Too form'd for peace to act a conqueror's part, Too train'd in camps to learn a statesman's art,... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 pages
...life to the adoration of a land he might be almost said to have created I " How shall we rank thce upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier and just less than sage; All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee, Far less, than all thou hast forborne to be !" QUESTIONS. — 1. What does the speaker... | |
 | James Albert Wineberger - Mount Vernon (Va. : Estate) - 1860 - 98 pages
...banishes all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated a hemisphere, resigned its crowns, and preferred the retirement of domestic life to the...of a land he might be almost said to have created ? Happy, proud America ! The lightning of heaven yielded to your philosophy ! The temptations of earth... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1860 - 782 pages
...Columbia's patriot train Cast off their monarch, that their mob might reign. How shall we rank thce upon glory's page ? Thou more than soldier and just less than sage ! Of peace too fond to act the conqueror's part, Too long in camps to learn a statesman's art, Nature... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 446 pages
...nesitation. Who x like Washington x after having emancipated~a hemisphere x resignecPits crown >*i*i and preferred the retirement of domestic life ^\ to the adoration of a land <•• he might almost be said to have created ? 7. How~shall we rank thee *\ upon glory's~page, Thou more than soldier... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1861 - 778 pages
...Columbia's patriot train Cast off their monarch, that their mob might reign. How shall we rank tliee upon glory's page? Thou more than soldier and just less than sage ! Of peace too fond to act the conqueror's part, Too long in camps to learn a statesman's art, Nature... | |
 | Archibald Hamilton Bryce - 1862 - 344 pages
...act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated a hemisphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the...of a land he might be almost said to have created ? IH.-SCIEHCE AND AST. (SIK D. BREWSTER.) Sir D. BrewBter, LL.D., KH, one of the most distinguished... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...hesitation. Who »»i like Washington »i after having emaucipated~a hemisphere *i resigned~its crown wjw) and preferred the retirement of domestic life «•] to the adoration of a land y he might almost be said to have created ? 1. How~shall we rank thec *i upon glory's~pagc, Thou more... | |
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But the last glorious act crowns his career, and banishes all hesitation. Who, like Washington, after having emancipated an hemisphere, resigned its crown, and preferred the retirement of domestic life to the adoration of a land he might be almost said... 
