 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 972 sider
...his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood an heroic figure in the center of an heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them ; blow with their slowness ; quickening his march by theirs ; the true representative of this continent;... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 sider
...his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the center of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time....— slow with their slowness, quickening his march with theirs ; the true representative of his continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country,... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 sider
...them, — slow with their slowness, quickening his march with theirs ; the true representative oi his continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his...throbbing in his heart, the thought of their minds artidulated by his tongue. " Adam Smith remarks that the ax, which, in Houbraken's portraits of British... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 440 sider
...his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time....slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true represent tative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse of twenty... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1899 - 266 sider
...his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood, an heroic figure in the centre of an heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time....pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart, the thoughts of their minds articulating by his tongue. He had seen the practical abolition of slavery;... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1890 - 500 sider
...his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood an heroic figure in the center of an heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time....quickening his march by theirs; the true representative of the continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse of twenty millions throbbing... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 sider
...his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time....the pulse of twenty millions throbbing in his heart, tha thought of their minds articulated by his tongue." In his Remarks at the Organization of the Free... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 sider
...Concord on the 19th of April, 1865, 1 extract this admirably drawn character of the man : — "He is the true history of the American people in his time....before them; slow with their slowness, quickening bis march by theirs, the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man; father of his... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - 1892 - 772 sider
...on the other hand, he should be thus sketched by as high authority as Ralph Waldo Emerson : "He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walks before them, slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 sider
...his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time....slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true represent tative of this continent ; an entirely public man ; father of his country, the pulse of twenty... | |
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He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them, ; slow with their slowness, quickening his march by theirs, the true representative of this continent; an entirely public man ; father of Ms country, the pulse... 
