...blood which you so freely and nobly spilled in the same holy cause. The vain wish has sometimes been indulged, that Providence would allow the Patriot,...contemplate the intermediate changes which had taken place—to view the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains leveled, the canals cut, the highways...

...oratory: " The vain wish has sometimes been indulged that Providence would allow the patriot after his death to return to his country and to contemplate the intermediate changes that have taken place : to view the forests felled ; the cities built ; the mountains levelled ; the...

...seized upon the poetic side of Lafayette's visit. " The vain wish has been sometimes indulged," said he, "that Providence would allow the patriot, after death,...the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains leveled, the canals cut, the highways constructed, the progress of the arts, the advancement of learning,...

...of the House of Representatives, he welcomed Lafayette. He said: "The vain wish has sometimes been indulged that Providence would allow the patriot after...the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains leveled, the canals cut, the highways constructed, the progress of the arts, the advancemant of learning...

...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,...

...seized upon the poetic side of Lafayette's visit. "The vain wish has been sometimes indulged," said he, "that Providence would allow the patriot, after death,...the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains leveled, the canals cut, the highways constructed, the progress of the arts, the advancement of learning,...

...show of oratory or any striving for effect, were the words of the Speaker; and thus he concluded: " The vain wish has been sometimes indulged, that Providence...death, to return to his country and to contemplate the immediate changes which had taken place : to view the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains...

...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...

...December 10, 1824, on the occasion of Lafayette's last visit to America, he used the following language: "The vain wish has been sometimes indulged that Providence...allow the patriot after death to return to his country to contemplate the intermediate changes which had taken place; to view the forests felled, the cities...

...been sometimes indulged that Providence would allow the patriot after death to return to his country to contemplate the intermediate changes which had...the forests felled, the cities built, the mountains leveled, the canals cut. the highways constructed, the progress of the arts, the advancement of learning,...