He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them ; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse... The Blue Book of Biography - Page 355by Charles Morris - 1911 - 599 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...quickening his march by theirs; the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which, in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies, is... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 972 pages
...quickening his march by theirs ; the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; father of his country ; the pulse of twenty millions...the thought of their minds articulated by his tongue William C. Bryant, our venerable poet, composed the following immortal hymn for the obsequies in New... | |
| John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 pages
...quickening his march by theirs; the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which, in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies, is... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...quickening his march by theirs ; the true representative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country ; the pulse of twenty millions...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. William C. Bryant, our venerable poet, composed the following immortal hymn for the obsequies in New... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1887 - 984 pages
...quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." Again, in the essay on " Eloquence " (" Essays and Social Aims "), Emerson praises the Gettysburg speech,... | |
| George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 416 pages
...quickening his march with theirs ; the true representative of his continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, — the pulse of twenty millions...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. " Adam Smith remarks that the ax, which, in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies, is... | |
| Alexander Charles Ewald - Great Britain - 1881 - 274 pages
...quickening his march by theirs ; the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." Throughout England there were but two feelings upon the subject — abhorrence of the crime and sympathy... | |
| George Willis Cooke - Authors, American - 1881 - 406 pages
...quickening his march with theirs ; the true representative oi his continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, — the pulse of twenty millions...throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds artidulated by his tongue. " Adam Smith remarks that the ax, which, in Houbraken's portraits of British... | |
| Edward A. Thomas - Biography - 1883 - 654 pages
...Merle d'Aubigne1, "one of the greatest that history has to inscribe on its annals." "His occupving the chair of State," says Ralph Waldo Emerson, " was...1733; was commissioned a major-general of militia in 1770; joined Washington's army in February of the next year, and was soon after appointed a major-general... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 pages
...quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions...thought of their minds articulated by his tongue. Adam Smith remarks that the axe, which in Houbraken's portraits of British kings and worthies is engraved... | |
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