 | John Wilson - English language - 1871 - 364 pages
...rich in the memory of the great and good, the champions and the martyrs of liberty, the exiled heralds of truth ; and richer as the parent of this land of...her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, — stars, garters, and blue ribbons, — seem to me poor things for great men to contend for. Nor... | |
 | John Wilson - Abbreviations, English - 1871 - 362 pages
...memory of the great and good, the champions and the martyrs of liberty, the exiled heralds of truth j and richer as the parent of this land of promise in the West. I am not — I need not say 1 am not — the panegyrist of England. I am not dazzled by her riches, nor awed by her power. The... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1871 - 364 pages
...rich in the memory of the great and good, the champions and the martyrs of liberty, the exiled heralds of truth ; and richer as the parent of this land of promise in the West. 1 am not — I need not say I am not — the panegyrist of England. I am not dazzled by her riches,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1878 - 456 pages
...rich in the memory of the great and good, the champions and the martyrs of liberty, the exiled heraids of truth ; and richer, as the parent of this land...dazzled by her riches, nor awed by her power. The scepter, the miter, and the coronet, — stars, garters, and blue ribbons, — seem to 'me poor things... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1879 - 358 pages
...Burke, or of Chatham, within the walls of the British Parliament, and at the foot of the British throne? I am not — I need not say I am not — the panegyrist...her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, — stars, garters, and blue ribbons, — seem to me poor things for great men to contend for. Nor... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1879 - 350 pages
...Burke, or of Chatham, within the walls of the British Parliament, and at the foot of the British throne? I am not — I need not say I am not — the panegyrist...her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, — stars, garters, and blue ribbons, — seem to me poor things for great men to contend for. Nor... | |
 | Readers - 1889 - 236 pages
...or of Chatham, within the walls of the British Parliament, and at the foot of the British throne ? I am not — I need not say I am not — the panegyrist...her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, — stars, Garters, and blue ribbons, — seem to me poor things for great men to contend for. Nor... | |
 | Brainard Gardner Smith - Oratory - 1891 - 188 pages
...powers with which they were endowed, and the wisdom of God, and the power of God unto salvation. 2. I am not the panegyrist of England; I am not dazzled...her power; the sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, stars, garters, and blue ribands, seem to me poor things for great men to contend for; nor is my admiration... | |
 | Henry Beebee Carrington - American literature - 1894 - 448 pages
...the memory of the great and the good, the champions and the martyrs of Liberty, the exiled heralds of truth, and richer, as the parent of this land of promise in the west. I am not the panegyrist of England. I am not dazed by her riches, nor awed by her power. Nor is my admiration... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - Orators - 1896 - 474 pages
...rich in the memory of the great and good, the champions and the martyrs of liberty, the exiled heralds of truth ; and richer as the parent of this land of...her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, — stars, garters, and blue ribbons,- — seem to me poor things for great men to contend for. Nor... | |
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I am not — the panegyrist of England. I am not dazzled by her riches, nor awed by her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, — stars, garters, and blue ribbons, — seem to me poor things for great men to contend for. Nor is my admiration... 
