 | 1845 - 620 pages
...ice of the Delaware to the capture of Trenton — not s hen we behold him victorious over Cornwall!.* at Yorktown; but when we regard him, in noble deference...upholding the peaceful neutrality of the country, while he received unmoved the clamor of the people wickedly crying for war. But let us not confine ourselves... | |
 | 1845 - 648 pages
...Delaware to the capture of Trenton—not « hrn we behold him victorious over Cornwallis at Yorktowu ; but when we regard him, in noble deference to justice,...upholding the peaceful neutrality of the country, while he received unmoved the clamor of the people wickedly crying for war. But let us not confine ourselves... | |
 | Robert Smith - 1846 - 434 pages
...their lustre. Our own Washington rises to a truly heavenly stature, — not when we follow him over the ice of the Delaware to the capture of Trenton,...upholding the peaceful neutrality of the country, while he received unmoved the clamour of the people wickedly crying for war. What glory of battle in England's... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 436 pages
...their lustre. Our own Washington rises to a truly heavenly stature, — not when we follow him over the ice of the Delaware to the capture of Trenton,...upholding the peaceful neutrality of the country, while he received unmoved the clamor of the people wickedly crying for War. What Glory of battle in England's... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 428 pages
...their lustre. Our own Washington rises to a truly heavenly stature, — not when "we follow him over the ice of the Delaware to the capture of Trenton,...behold him victorious over Cornwallis at Yorktown, — hut when we regard him, in noble deference to justice, refusing the kingly crown which a faithless... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...Delaware to t '-. capture of Trenton — not when we behold him victorious OTW Cornwallis at Yorktown; bnt when we regard him, in noble deference to justice, refusing the kingly crown which a faithlf-- soldiery proffered, and at a later day, upholding the peaof ~. nentrality of the country,... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - 1860 - 530 pages
...their luster. Our own Washington rises to a truly heavenly stature, — not when we follow him over the ice of the Delaware to the capture of Trenton,...Cornwallis at Yorktown, — but when we regard him in a noble deference to justice, refusing the kingly crown which a faithless soldiery proffered, and,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1875 - 542 pages
...we follow Man, faint, weary, staggering with wounds, through the Black Forest of the Past, which Jhe has reddened with his gore. Oh, let it not be in the...unmoved the clamor of the people wickedly crying for Waiv What glory of battle in England's annals will not fade by the side of that great act of justice,... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - 1877 - 430 pages
...lose their lustre. Our own Washington rises to a truly heavenly stature, not when we follow him over the ice of the Delaware to the capture of Trenton,...proffered, and at a later day upholding the peaceful neutraJity of the country, while he received unmoved the clamor of the people wickedly crying for war.... | |
 | 1878 - 656 pages
...to his admirers, ram, in attack, wild-boar in defense, and wolf inflight" ..." Washington rises to a heavenly stature, not when we follow him through the...not when we behold him victorious over Cornwallis at Torktown, but when we regard him, in noble deference to justice, refusing the kingly crown which a... | |
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And peace has its own peculiar victories, in comparison with which Marathon and Bannockburn and Bunker Hill, fields held sacred in the history of human freedom, shall lose their lustre. Our own Washington rises to a truly heavenly stature — not when... 
