 There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard for ancestry, which nourishes only a weak pride; as there is also a care for posterity, which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also...  Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Página 26por Daniel Webster - 1835Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Daniel Webster - 1854
...future, and terminating at last, with the consummation of all things earthly, at the throne of God. There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard...habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Wilbur M. Hayward - 1854 - 221 páginas
...terminating at last, with the consummation of all things earthly, at the throne of God. There may bo, and there often is, indeed, a regard for ancestry,...habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854
...future, and terminating at last, with the consummation of all things earthly, at the throne of God. There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard...is also a care for posterity, which only disguises :>n habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also a moral... | |
 | 1855 - 468 páginas
...future, and terminating, at last, with the consummation of all things earthly, at the throne of God. There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard...habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is, also, a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 552 páginas
...the future, and terminating at last with the consummation of all things earthly at the throne of God. There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard...habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates... | |
 | 1856
...are fools effeminate, The scorn of all who know the worth of mind And virtue. J,— Daniel Webster. 'THERE may be, and there often is, indeed a regard...habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates... | |
 | 1857
...are told that the chief office of history is to rescue virtuous actions from oblivion ; that there is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors,...which elevates the character and improves the heart. What has Virginia done to rescue the virtuous actions of her eminent men from ohlivion? Jamestown cries... | |
 | John Adams Vinton - 1858 - 538 páginas
...the fact — that his ancestors were brave and upright men. We believe with Webster, that " there is a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors,...which elevates the character, and improves the heart." Burke truly said, "Those only deserve to be remembered by posterity, who treasure up the history of... | |
 | John Adams Vinton - 1858 - 534 páginas
...the fact — that his ancestors vvece brave and upright men. We believe with Webster, that " there ia a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors,...which elevates the character, and improves the heart." Burke truly said, " Those only deserve to be remembered by posterity, who treasure up the history of... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 552 páginas
...future, and terminating at lost with the consummation of all things earthly, at the throne of God. There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard...habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and grovelling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates... | |
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