 | Great Britain - 1826 - 1052 pages
...it has excited in a pecu liar manner, the sensibility of all, to behold the surviving members of oar Revolutionary contest, Civil and Military, who had...youngest among us. There was not an individual present ,w ho had not some relative who had partaken in those scenes, nor an infant who had not heard the relation... | |
 | South America - 1824 - 570 pages
...and military, who had shared with him in the toils and dangers of the war, many of them in a decrepit state. A more interesting spectacle, it is believed,...touched the breasts of every age, even the youngest amongst us. There was not an individual present who had not some relative who had partaken in those... | |
 | 1825 - 436 pages
...assembled to greet him; among whom it has excited, in » peculiar manner, the sensibility of all, tu behold the surviving members of our revolutionary...There was not an individual present, who had not some rejative who had not partaken in those scenes, nor an infant who had not. beard the relation of them.... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1842 - 794 pages
...is believed, was never witnessed, because none could be founded on purer principles, — noneproceed from higher or more disinterested motives. That the...individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those scenes, nor an infant who had not heard the relation of them. But the circumstance... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1846 - 766 pages
...toils and dangers of the war, many of them in a decrepit state. A more interesting spectacle, it w believed, was never witnessed, because none could...individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those scenes, nor an infant who had not heard the relation of them. But the circumstance... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1854 - 616 pages
...department. believed, was never witnessed, because none could be founded on purer principles—none proceed from higher or more disinterested motives....individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those scenes, nor an infant who had not heard the relation of them. But the circumstance... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 776 pages
...and military, who had shared with him in the toils and dangers of the war, many of them in a decrepit state. A more interesting spectacle, it is believed,...individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those scenes, nor an infant who had not heard the relation of them. But the circumstance... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 772 pages
...toils and dangers of the war, many of them in a decrepit state. A more interesting spectacle,' it U believed, was never witnessed, because none could...individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those scenes, nor an infant who had not heard the relation of them. But the circumstance... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 774 pages
...dangers of the war, many of them in a decrepit state. A more interesting spectacle, it is beh'eved, was never witnessed, because none could be founded...individual present who had not some relative who had not partaken in those scenes, nor an infant who had not heard the relation of them. But the circumstance... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Portraits, American - 1862 - 688 pages
...message. " A more interesting spectacle," he said, with some reference perhaps to his own recollections, " it is believed was never witnessed, because none could...common cause should have been much excited was natural. But the circumstance which was most sensibly felt, and which his presence brought to the mind of all,... | |
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... state. A more interesting spectacle. it is believed, was never witnessed, because, none could be founded on purer principles, none proceed from higher or more disinterested motives. That the feelings of those who had fought and bled with him, in a... 
