 While foreign nations, less blessed with that freedom which is power than ourselves, are advancing with gigantic strides in the career of public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied...  The Works of William H. Seward - Side 94av William Henry Seward - 1853Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1825 - 482 sider
...or fold up our arms, and proclaim to the world that we were palsied by the will of our constituent, would it not be to cast away the bounties of Providence,...a new university unfolding its portals to the sons qf science, and holding up the torch of human improvement to eyes that seek the light. We have seen,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 884 sider
...improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms, and proclaim to the world that we were palsied by the will of our constituents, would it...and at the expense of one state of this Union, a new uni. versa ty unfolding its portals to the sons of science, and holding up the torch of human improvement... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1827 - 200 sider
...public improvement; were we to slumber in indolence, fold up our arms, and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would...Providence and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority ?" Here, then, sir, we see the will of our constituents officially proclaimed, as the great obstacle... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - 1827 - 650 sider
...public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would it not be to cast away the bounties of ProviHence, and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority ? In the course of the year now drawing to... | |
 | Edward Currier - 1841 - 474 sider
...public improvement ; were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would...its close, we have beheld, under the auspices and expense of one state in our Union, a new university unfolding its portals to the sons of science, and... | |
 | 1841 - 460 sider
...public improvement; were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would...its close, we have beheld, under the auspices and expense of one state in our Union, a new university unfolding its portals to the sons of science, and... | |
 | M. Sears - 1842 - 586 sider
...public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, —...its close, we have beheld, under the auspices and expense of one siate in our Union, a new university unfolding its portals to the sons of science, and... | |
 | United States. President - 1842 - 794 sider
...public improvement ; were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, would...to cast away the bounties of Providence, and doom ourselres to perpetual inferiority ? In the course of the year now drawing to its close. we have beheld,... | |
 | M. Sears - 1844 - 582 sider
...public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, —...its close, we have beheld, under the auspices and expense of one state in our Union, a new university unfolding its portals to the sons of science, and... | |
 | M. Sears - 1844 - 596 sider
...public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents, —...Providence, and doom ourselves to perpetual inferiority 1 In the course of the year now drawing to its close, we have beheld, under the auspices and expense... | |
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