 | Epes Sargent - 1867 - 544 pages
...its value, having engaged in the perilous conflict to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment...sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly attracted, whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom. 2 My... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Presidents - 1867 - 510 pages
...they might." In 1796, President Washington addressed the French ministerin the following words : " My best wishes are irresistibly excited, •whensoever,...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 Cabell Rives - United States - 1868 - 678 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...excited, whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed people unfurl the banner of freedom. But, above all, the events of the French revolution have produced... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - Elocution - 1869 - 456 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...recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes, are iresistibly excited, whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed Nation unfurl the banners of freedom.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1870 - 538 pages
...its value, having engaged in the perilous conflict to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment...sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly attracted, whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom. 2. .».... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - United States - 1871 - 730 pages
...having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best yeurs of mv life to secure its permanent establishment in my own...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,... | |
 | Benjamin Nicholas Martin - American literature - 1871 - 236 pages
...require. I will say, in the language of the venerated father of my country, " born in a land of liberty, my anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings,...an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom." JOSEPH STORY. 1779-1845. (Manual, pp. 487, 531.) From his "Miscellaneous Writings." 7O, CHIEF JUSTICE... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - United States - 1875 - 522 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...sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes, are irresistibly attracted whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the bauners of freedom. But,... | |
 | Thomas Paine - Political science - 1878 - 606 pages
...conflict to defend it ; having, " in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its perma" nent establishment in my own country ; my anxious recollections,...sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes, are irresistibly ex" cited, whenever, in any country, I see an oppressed people un" furl the banner of freedom." Mr.... | |
 | New England - 1885 - 504 pages
...; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my country, my anxious recollections, my sympathetic...an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom." Will some one of your readers inform me who was the author of these words, and what was the occasion... | |
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Born, sir, in a land of liberty ; having early learned its value ; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it ; having, in a word, devoted the beat years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country ; my anxious recollections,... 
