Washington is the mightiest name of earth — long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is... The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society - Strana 29autor/autoři: Kentucky Historical Society - 1915Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 str.
...civil liberty ; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1923 - 700 str.
...appropriate to be quoted with reference to its author. "On that name an eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining... | |
| Osborn Hamiline Oldroyd - 1882 - 614 str.
...civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining... | |
| Michigan State Horticultural Society - 1887 - 616 str.
...civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining... | |
| John Carroll Power - 1889 - 486 str.
...civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Washington, is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless' splendor, leave it... | |
| John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 544 str.
...civil liberty ; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining... | |
| Edwin Allison Schell - 1893 - 228 str.
...Lincoln. No words can make a eulogy for him. As he himself once said of Washington : "Let none attempt to add brightness to the sun, or glory to the name of Abraham Lincoln. He is beyond all eulogy. In solemn awe pronounce his name, and in its naked, deathless... | |
| David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 248 str.
...civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 str.
...civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked deathless splendor leave it shining... | |
| David Decamp Thompson - 1894 - 250 str.
...civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining... | |
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