The Orations on Bunker Hill Monument: The Character of Washington and the Landing at PlymouthAmerican Book Company, 1894 - 101 pages |
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Page 75 - this theater of the Western world ; if it be true that "The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last,
Page 25 - its towers and roofs, — which you then saw filled with wives and children and countrymen in distress and terror, and looking with unutterable emotions for the issue of the combat,—have presented you to-day with the sight of its whole happy population come out to welcome and greet you with a universal jubilee. Yonder proud ships, by a
Page 30 - Blandishments," said that distinguished son of genius and patriotism, " will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a halter intimidate ; for, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men." The 17th of June saw the four
Page 26 - and seeming fondly to cling around it, are not means of annoyance to you, but your country's own means of distinction and defense. All is peace; and God has granted you this sight of your country's happiness ere you slumber in the grave. He has allowed you to behold and to partake the reward of your patriotic toils; and he
Page 41 - and other founders of states. Our fathers have filled them. But there remains to us a great duty of defense and preservation ; and there is opened to us, also, a noble pursuit to which the spirit of the times strongly invites us. Our proper business
Page 87 - sea, so surely may they see, as we now see, the flag of the Union floating on the top of the Capitol; and then, as now, may the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country ! Gentlemen, I propose '.THE MEMORY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Page 24 - We have a commerce that leaves no sea unexplored, navies which take no law from superior force, revenues adequate to all the exigencies of government, almost without taxation, and peace with all nations, founded on equal rights and mutual respect. Europe, within the same period, has been agitated by a mighty revolution
Page 26 - in this great cause; him, the premature victim of his own self-devoting heart; him, the head of our civil councils and the destined leader of our military bands, whom nothing brought hither but the unquenchable fire of his own spirit; him, cut off by Providence
Page 30 - standing here side by side to triumph or to fall together; and there was with them, from that moment to the end of the war, what I hope will remain with them forever, one cause, one country, one heart. The battle of Bunker Hill was attended with the most
Page 24 - from the place where we stand to the south pole, is annihilated forever. In the mean time, both in Europe and America, such has been the general progress of knowledge, such the improvement in legislation, in commerce, in the arts, in letters, and, above all, in liberal ideas and the general spirit of the age, that the whole world seems changed. 1