 | 1837 - 396 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! how shall I struggle with the emotions, that stifle...level with the sea ; but thy memory shall not fail ! Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found, that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty,... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 pages
...generous blood like water before he knew whether it would ferti. ]ize a land of freedom or of bondage ! How shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle...monument may moulder away ; the solid ground it rests on may sink down to a level with the sea ; but thy memory shall not fail ! Wheresoever among men a... | |
 | 1840 - 554 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! how shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle...level with the sea ; but thy memory shall not fail ! Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found, that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 326 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! how shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle...level with the sea; but thy memory shall not fail! " It will be observed in reading this passage, that the Orator, after speaking of the " first great... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1843 - 48 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! how shall I struggle with the emotions, that stifle the utterance of thy name!—Our poor work may perish; but thine shall endure! This monument may moulder away; the solid... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! how shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle...level with the sea ; but thy memory shall not fail ! Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty,... | |
 | 1845 - 564 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! how shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle...level with the sea ; but thy memory shall not fail ! Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found, that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1848 - 646 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! how shall I struggle with the emotions that stifle...level with the sea ; but thy memory shall not fail ! Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found, that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 524 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! how shall I struggle with the emotions, that stifle...monument may moulder away ; the solid ground it rests upx>n may sink down to a level with the sea; but thy memory shall not fail! Wheresoever among men a... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 612 pages
...generous blood, like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage ! how shall I struggle with the emotions, that stifle...level with the sea ; but thy memory shall not fail ! Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found, that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty,... | |
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Him! cut off by Providence in the hour of overwhelming anxiety and thick gloom ; falling ere he saw the star of his country rise; pouring out his generous blood like water, before he knew whether it would fertilize a land of freedom or of bondage! —... 
