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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,... "
The Republican - Page 647
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Appletons' Journal, Volume 14

1875 - 854 pages
...upon them. Eighteen years later, when the same great orator and statesman, who had addressed them as " venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation," delivered an oration on the completion of the monument, only thirteen veterans of Concord, Lexington,...
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The Sixth Progressive Reader, Or Oratorical Class-book: With a Treatise on ...

Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...CORNER-STONE OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. VeneraMt men ! you have come down to us from a former geneiation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives,...ago, this very hour, with your brothers, and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens...
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The American Statesman: Or, Illustrations of the Life and Character of ...

Joseph Banvard - 1875 - 362 pages
...water, he exclaimed, as if addressing his captive, and regarding it as the representative of others, " Venerable men ! you have come down to us from a former...your lives, that you might behold this joyous day " And these very words were afterwards employed in his oration at the laying of the corner stone of...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 12

1875 - 462 pages
...about a third of a century, and seem to hear Daniel Webster saying to the veterans of Bunker Hill, " venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation." The Professor's sentiment on this score will be a quite appropriate contribution to the curiosity department...
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The Franklin Sixth Reader and Speaker: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and ...

George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 454 pages
...higher, the volume a little larger, the movement faster, and the slides oftener rising. Thus : — Venerable men ! You have come down to us from a former...your lives that you might behold this joyous day. — WEBSTER. HORROR chills and paralyzes. It is usually of soft force, very low pitch, very slow movement,...
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Substance and Show: And Other Lectures

Thomas Starr King - 1877 - 470 pages
...veterans of the battle for his first Bunker Hill address. He would pull out a lusty specimen, shouting, " Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former...your lives that you might behold this joyous day." He would unhook them into his basket, declaiming, " You are gathered to your fathers, and live only...
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Substance and Show: And Other Lectures

Thomas Starr King - 1877 - 472 pages
...veterans of the battle for his first Bunker Hill address. He would pull out a lusty specimen, shouting, " Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former...your lives that you might behold this joyous day." He would unhook them into his basket, declaiming, " You are gathered to your fathers, and live only...
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First Fifty Years of Cazenovia Seminary, 1825-1875: Its History, Proceedings ...

Cazenovia Junior College for Women - 1877 - 962 pages
...the great congregation gathered here, that I feel as Webster said in his address at Bunker Hill, " Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation." I have had the pleasure of being acquainted with the former principals of the Cazenovia Seminary, and...
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Appletons' School Readers

William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...body which 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...years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife of your country. • 2. Behold how altered ! The same...
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American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses, Volume 2

Frank Moore - 1878 - 658 pages
...had almost said so overwhelming, 4this renowned theatre of their courage and patriotism. VENERABIE xtensive enough to be fairly said to be for the common...ask what interest has South Carolina in a canal in O neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens...
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