Oration Pronounced by the Honorable Robert C. Winthrop, Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, on the Fourth of July, 1848: On the Occasion of Laying the Corner-stone of the National Monument to the Memory of WashingtonJ. & G.S. Gideon, printers, 1848 - 67 páginas |
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... preserve the marble chips , taken from the cavity of the corner stone . which were eagerly seized upon by visitors , to be kept as mementos of the event . The Board ordered square pieces of the stone to be wrought , labeled , and ...
... preserve the marble chips , taken from the cavity of the corner stone . which were eagerly seized upon by visitors , to be kept as mementos of the event . The Board ordered square pieces of the stone to be wrought , labeled , and ...
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... preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to the country . " And not less natural or less striking was the testimony of the Indian chief , who told Washington , fifteen years afterwards , " That at the battle of the ...
... preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to the country . " And not less natural or less striking was the testimony of the Indian chief , who told Washington , fifteen years afterwards , " That at the battle of the ...
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... preserved , it is enough to say , that in the three great epochs of our national history he stands forth pre ... preservation of American liberty , " This Congress doth now declare that they will maintain and assist him , and adhere to ...
... preserved , it is enough to say , that in the three great epochs of our national history he stands forth pre ... preservation of American liberty , " This Congress doth now declare that they will maintain and assist him , and adhere to ...
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... preserved Washington sustain you , until you have secured peace , order , freedom to your country ! " Si qua fata aspera rumpas , Tu Marcellus eris . " * But , fellow - citizens , while we thus commend the cha- * These forebodings were ...
... preserved Washington sustain you , until you have secured peace , order , freedom to your country ! " Si qua fata aspera rumpas , Tu Marcellus eris . " * But , fellow - citizens , while we thus commend the cha- * These forebodings were ...
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... preservation with jea- lous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can , in any event , be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our ...
... preservation with jea- lous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can , in any event , be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our ...
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