 | 1900 - 448 pages
...I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation....you might behold this joyous day. You are now where yo*i stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1901 - 88 pages
...almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. 5 VENERABLE MEN ! l you have come down to us from a former generation....brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, 10 in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads;... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1901 - 272 pages
...Mass., where he died in the following October. You have come down to us from a former generation. 20 Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that...your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder in the strife of your country. Behold how altered ! The 25 same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1901 - 272 pages
...Mass., where he died in the following October. You have come down to us from a former generation. 20 Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that...your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder in the strife of your country. Behold how altered ! The 25 same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean... | |
 | Ida Catherine Bender, Harry Pratt Judson - 1901 - 268 pages
...Webster This eloquent extract is from the first Bunker Hill oration, delivered in June, 1825. Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former generation....are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very 5 hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country.... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...I had almost said so overwhelming, this renowned theater of their courage and patriotism. VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously length- 220 ened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902 - 564 pages
...was burned by the Romans after death). XI.— THE SURVIVORS OF THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL 1. Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former generation....your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife of your country. 2. Behold how altered ! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads ; the same ocean... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...end of every year, forever and ever. — JOHN ADAMS : Letter to Webster, Dec. 23, 1821. ' Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former generation....your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. Address on laging the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Vol. ip 64. Mind is the great... | |
 | Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - 1902 - 306 pages
...victory ; And waving arms and banners bright Are glancing in the mellow light. — HEBER. 2. Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened your lives, so that you might behold this joyous day. 3. I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans... | |
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Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors,... 
