 | Eulogies - 1800 - 336 pages
...who acted through life as if they were born, not for themfelves, but for their country and the whole human race, how few, alas ! are recorded in the long...annals of ages, and how wide the intervals of time and fpace that divide them ! In all this dreary length of way, they appear like five or fix light-houfes... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1800 - 458 pages
...aéted through life, as if they were born, not for themfelves, but for their country and the whole human race, how few alas ! are recorded in the long...annals of ages, and how wide the intervals of time and fpace that divide them. In all this dreary length of way, they appear like five or fix lighthoufes... | |
 | 1802 - 440 pages
...themselves, but for their country and the whole human race, how few, alas ! are recorded in the long M V annals of ages, and how wide the intervals of time...dreary length of way, they appear like five or six .light-houses on as many thousand miles ofcoast : they gleam upon the surrounding darkness, with an... | |
 | Fisher Ames - United States - 1809 - 576 pages
...acted, through life, as if they were born, not for themselves, but for their country and the whole human race, how few, alas ! are recorded in the long...the surrounding darkness, with an inextinguishable splendour, like stars seen through a mist; but they are seen like stars, to cheer, to guide, and to... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...who acted through life, as if they were born, not for themselves but for their country and thewhole human race, how few, alas ! are recorded in the long...of time and space that divide them. —In all this drearylength of way, they appear like five or six light houses on as many thousand miles of coast :... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 426 pages
...who acted through life, as if they were born, not for themselves, but for their country and the whole human race, how few, alas ! are recorded in the long...dreary length of way, they appear like five or six light-hou" ses on as many thousand miles of coast : they gleam upon the surrounding darkness, with... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...life, as if they were born, not for themselves, but for their country and the whole human race,'how few, alas ! are recorded in the long annals of ages,...dreary length of way, they appear like five or six light-houses on as many thousand miles of coast: they gleam upon the surrounding darkness, with an... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 540 pages
...acted, through life, as if they were born, not for themselves, but for their country and the whole human race, how few, alas! are recorded in the long...dreary length of way. they appear like five or six lighthouses on as many thousand miles of coast; they gleam upon the surrounding darkness, with an inextinguishable... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 564 pages
...acted, through life, as if they were born, not for themselves, but for their country and the whole human race, how few, alas ! are recorded in the long...them. In all this dreary length of way, they appear Jike five or six lighthouses on as many thousand miles of coast; they gleam upon the surrounding darkness,... | |
 | Thomas Smith Grimké - Bible - 1831 - 222 pages
...Angel's visits, short and far between," at distant intervals along the centuries of European History. In all this dreary length of way, " they appear like five or six lighthouses, on as many thousand miles of coast." " The Good King Lewis is dead," was the simple proclamation... | |
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... of ages, and how wide the intervals of time and space that divide them ! In all this dreary length of way, they appear like five or six light-houses on as many thousand miles of coast... 
