 We wish, that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event, to every class and every age. We wish, that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced...  The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine - Page 217edited by - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor may look up here, and be proud, in the midst of its toil. AVe wish that, in those dap of disaster which, as they come on all nations, must be expected to come... | |
 | Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 pages
...withered age may behold it and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor may look up here, and be proud in the midst of its...that in those days of disaster, which, as they come upon all nations, 45 must be expected to come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn his eye hither,... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1865 - 256 pages
...shall cease from the land. The rain came down in torrents, but I did not feel it. We wish that labor may look up here, and be proud in the midst of its toil. Webster and Calhoun rarely suffered themselves to forget that they were senators as well as speakers.... | |
 | William Willder Wheildon - 1865 - 316 pages
...English, is peculiarly applicable at the present time and marks the profound thought of the statesman : " We wish that, in those days of disaster, which, as they come upon all nations, must be expected to come upon us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pages
...recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor may look up here, and be proud, in the midst of ite toil. We wish that, in those days of disaster, which,...come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong. We wish... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pages
...withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor may look up here, and be proud, in the midst of its toil. AVe wish that, in those days of disaster, which, as they come on all nations, must be expected to come... | |
 | John Swett - 1867 - 252 pages
...withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor may look up here, and be proud, in the midst of its...come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong. We wish... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor may look up here, and be proud, in the midst of its...come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still Btand strong. We wish... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 pages
...the man had extended through seventy winkers." Sometimes the abstract is put for the concrete : — " We wish that Labour may look up here, and be proud in the midst of its toil ; we wish that Infancy may learn the purpose of its creation from maternal lips ; and that weary and withered Age... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 pages
...age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. 1 4. We wish, that labor may look up here, and be proud in the midst of its...come on us also, desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that the foundations of our national power still stand strong. We wish,... | |
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