| Caleb Bingham - History - 1817 - 314 pages
...perilous , conflict to defend it ; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure it a permanent establishment in my own country ; my anxious...above all, the events of the French revolution have pro-- duced the deepest solicitude, as well as the highest admiration. To call your nation brave, were... | |
| United States - 1817 - 512 pages
...its Value ; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it ; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country ; my anxious recollections, my sympathetick feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited, whensoever, in any country, I see... | |
| Thomas Paine - Political science - 1819 - 758 pages
...word, devoted the best years df my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country; irig anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings', and my best wishes, are irresistibly excited, when" ever, in any country, I see an oppressed p'eople unfurl the " hanner of freedom." — Mr. Washington,... | |
| Caleb Bingham - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1821 - 312 pages
...feelings, and my beft wifhes are irrefiftably excited, whenfoever, in any country, I fee an oppreff.-d nation unfurl the banners of freedom. But above all,...events of the French revolution have produced the deepeft folicitude, as well as the higheft admiration. To call your nation brave, were to pronounce... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - Presidents - 1826 - 234 pages
...its value ; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it ; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country ; my anxious recollections, my sympathetick feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly attracted, whensoever, in any country, I... | |
| Henry Clay - United States - 1827 - 452 pages
...He would say, in the language of the venerated father of his country, " Born in a land of liberty, my anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings,...an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom." For his own part, Mr. Clay said, that whenever he thought of Spanish America, the image irresistibly... | |
| Samuel Hazard - Pennsylvania - 1828 - 476 pages
...first magnanimous allies of our nation, just springing from their first struggle with arbitrary power: ""My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings,...an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom." And what meant the firm and manly tone of him who, on your last jubilee, went to join the immortal... | |
| Pennsylvania - 1832 - 460 pages
...magilanimous allies of our nation, just springing from their first struggle with arbitrary power: "•' My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings,...an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom." And what meant the firm and manly tone of him who, on your last jubilee, went to join the immortal... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1849 - 790 pages
...its value ; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it ; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment...any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banner of freedom. But, above all, the events of the French Revolution have produced the deepest solicitude,... | |
| William Sullivan - United States - 1834 - 398 pages
...to secure its permanent establish' ment in my country ; my anxious recollections, my sympa' thetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited,...oppressed nation " unfurl the banners of freedom." He finished with saying, — " I rejoice that liberty, which " you have so long embraced with enthusiasm,... | |
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