 The vain wish has been sometimes indulged, that Providence would allow the patriot, after death, to return to his country, and to contemplate the intermediate changes which had taken place — to view the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains...  Famous Americans of Recent Times - Сторінка 33автори: James Parton - 1867 - 473 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | 1857 - 540 стор.
...shed the last drop of that blood which here you so freely and nobly spilled, in the same holy cause. The vain wish has been sometimes indulged, that Providence...the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains leveled, the canals cut, the highways constructed, the progress of the arts, the advancement of learning,... | |
 | 1857 - 656 стор.
...shed the last drop of that blood which here you so freely and nobly spilled, in the same holy cause. The vain wish has been sometimes indulged, that Providence would allow the patriot, alter death, to return to his country, and to contemplate the intermediate changes which had taken... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1858 - 822 стор.
...present confrontation with posterity, and adorned and amplincd it with the graces of oratory. He said : " The vain wish has been sometimes indulged, that Providence...contemplate the intermediate changes which had taken p!ace — to view the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains levelled, the canals cut, the... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1859 - 387 стор.
...shed the last drop of that blood, which here you so freely and nobly spilt in the same holy cause. " The 'vain wish has been sometimes indulged, that Providence...and to contemplate the intermediate changes which had.taken place—to view the the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains leveled, the canals... | |
 | Frank Moore - 1859 - 656 стор.
...shed the last drop of that blood which here yon so freely and nobly spilled, in the same holy cause. The vain wish has been sometimes indulged, that Providence would allow the patriot, after death, to retnrn to his country, and to contemplate the intermediate changes which had taken place ; to view... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1863 - 830 стор.
...received by Mr. Clay, in an apposite and beautiful address, of which the following is an extract. ' The vain wish has been sometimes indulged, that providence...to his country, and to contemplate the intermediate change that had taken place, to view the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains levelled,... | |
 | 1866 - 670 стор.
...made a brief speech, thrilling the House by a single passage, in which he spoke of ' poor, unJieard Missouri] she being then without a representative...changes which had taken place ; to view the forests fulled, the cities built, the mountains levelled, the canals cut, the highways constructed, the progress... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 860 стор.
...House of Representatives, to Lafayette, on the occasion of his return to America. It is as follows : The vain wish has been sometimes indulged, that Providence...and to contemplate the intermediate changes which hud taken place ; to view the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains levelled, the canals... | |
 | 1866 - 672 стор.
...the tone of conversation. " The vain wish has been sometimes indulged, that Providence would •Bow the patriot, after death, to return to his country,...intermediate changes which had taken place ; to view the wrests felled, the cities built, the mountains levelled, the canals cut, the highways constructed,... | |
 | Josephus Conn Guild - 1878 - 516 стор.
...present confrontation with posterity, and adorned and amplified it with the graces of oratory. He said, 'The vain wish has been sometimes indulged that Providence...the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains leveled, the canals cut, the highways opened, the progress of the arts, the advancement of learning,... | |
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