 There is a local feeling connected with this occasion, too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene of our history was laid ; where the hearths and altars...  The North American Review - Página 11editado por - 1822Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 636 páginas
...this occasion too strong to be resisted — a sort of genius of the place which inspires and awes. \Ve feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...Christianity, and civilization, and letters made their first lodgement in a vast extent of country covered with a wilderness, and peopled by roving barbarians.... | |
 | Elizabeth Armstrong Reed - 1903 - 190 páginas
...delighted the ear of the young nation with his touching and eloquent reminiscence of the era and the sacred spot "where the first scene of our history was laid;...with a wilderness and peopled by roving barbarians." Profiting by the occasion and its memories, and seeking wisely to impress upon his hearers a sense... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1903 - 396 páginas
...occasion, too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...Christianity, and civilization, and letters made their first lodgement, in a vast extent of country, covered with a wilderness, and peopled by roving barbarians.... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 páginas
...occasion, too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...with a wilderness, and peopled by roving barbarians. We are here, at the season of the year at which the event took place. The imagination irresistibly... | |
 | Theodore Clarence Mitchill, George Rice Carpenter - 1906 - 410 páginas
..."blind mouths." We may advisably follow out this idea a little. Nearly all the re APPRECIATION 331 first scene of our history was laid ; where the hearths...with a wilderness, and peopled by roving barbarians. We are here, at the season of the year at which the event took place. The imagination irresistibly... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1914 - 786 páginas
...of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first вовне of our history was laid : where the hearths and altars...Christianity, and civilization, and letters made their first lodgement, in a vast extent of country, covered with л wilderness, and peopled by rovirg barbarians.... | |
 | Nellie Elfa Turner - 1915 - 536 páginas
...occasion too strong to be resisted ; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. 2 We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...with a wilderness, and peopled by roving barbarians. 3 We are here, at the season of the year at which the event took place. 4 The imagination irresistibly... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1925 - 346 páginas
...criticism. Daniel Webster, at Plymouth Rock 100 years ago, praised the spot as that "where Christianity, civilization, and letters made their first lodgment in a vast extent of country" ; and 23 years later, at a dinner of the New England Society at the old Astor House in New York, he... | |
 | John D. Seelye - 1998 - 724 páginas
...occasion, too strong to be resisted; a sort of genius of the place, which inspires and awes us. We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...Christianity, and civilization, and letters made their first lodgement, in a vast extent of country, covered with a wilderness, and peopled by roving barbarians.... | |
 | George McKenna - 2007 - 454 páginas
...existence with theirs." He invested the site of the Pilgrim's landing with an aura of sacredness: "We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene...their first lodgment; in a vast extent of country. ..." Yet Webster was no antiquarian; his history was not tethered to seventeenth-century New England.... | |
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