A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich productions of their industry, engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right, advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye... A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City - Page 347by Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861Full view - About this book
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1857 - 408 pages
...presentiments, which the greatness of the charge, and the weakness of my powers, so justly inspire. A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land, traversing all the seas with the rich produce of their industry; engaged in commerce with nations, who feel power and forget right; advancing... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 728 pages
...awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire. A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land,...contemplate these transcendent objects, and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the auspices... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 794 pages
...awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire. A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land,...when I contemplate these transcendent objects, and sec the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1858 - 732 pages
...awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire. A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land,...advancing rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye—when I contemplate these transcendent objects, and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes... | |
| 1859 - 370 pages
...awful presentiments, which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire. A rising nation spread over a wide and fruitful land — traversing all the seas with the lich productions of their industry — engaged in commerce with nations who feel power and forget right... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 686 pages
...no one had О О ' a better mastery, of the country, whose laws he was appointed to administer — " a rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land,...rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye" — he proceeded to assuage the agitations of party. " Every difference of opinion," he said, "is not... | |
| Henry Stephens Randall - 1871 - 730 pages
...awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire. A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land,...advancing? rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye—when I contemplate these transcendent objects, and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes... | |
| James Schouler - 1882 - 504 pages
...of eloquent thought, unadorned by graces of delivery — for Jefferson was no orator — he depicted "a rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful...rapidly to destinies beyond the reach of mortal eye." Of the strength and adequacy of this, a republican government, for its own preservation, he boldly... | |
| John Robert Irelan - 1887 - 560 pages
...awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers so justly inspire. A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land,...contemplate these transcendent objects, and see the honor, the happiness, and the hopes of this beloved country committed to the issue and the auspices... | |
| Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - 1896 - 442 pages
...presentiments, which the greatness of the charge, and the weakness of my powers, so justly inspire. A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful land,...the rich productions of their industry, engaged in com* For notes on Jefferson see Appendix, p. 366. 155 merce with nations who feel power and forget... | |
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