 | William Wirt - Funeral sermons - 1826 - 690 pages
...patriotic sentiments it expresses, I see the true character of the National Metropolis. The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth, is honorable,...world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and self-government, from hence it is to be lighted up in... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - History - 1832 - 982 pages
...patriotic sentiments it expresses, I see the true character of the National Metropolis. The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth, is honorable,...world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and self government, from hence it is to be lighted up in... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1834 - 442 pages
...patriotic sentiments it expresses, I see the true character of the national metropolis. The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth, is honorable,...awful. Trusted with the destinies of this solitary republic*of the world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 632 pages
...patriotic sentiments it expresses. I see the true character of the national metropolis. The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth is honorable,...world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and selfgovernment, from hence it is to be lighted up in other... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 628 pages
...patriotic sentiments it expresses, I see the true character of the national metropolis. The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth is honorable,...world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and selfgovernment, from hence it is to be lighted up in other... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - Biography & Autobiography - 1900 - 494 pages
...Sir; I am only his successor." (To Rev. William Smith, 1791. FV, 293.) FREEDOM. — The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth is honorable,...world, the only monument of human rights and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and self-government, from hence it is to be lighted up in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1900 - 498 pages
...Sir; I am only his successor." (To Rev. William Smith, 1791. FV, 293.) FREEDOM. — The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth is honorable,...world, the only monument of human rights and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and self-government, from hence it is to be lighted up in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1905 - 1044 pages
...patriotic sentiments it expresses, I see the true character of the national metropolis. The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth is honorable,...world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and selfgovernment, from hence it is to be lighted up in other... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - Conduct of life - 1918 - 382 pages
...<I The land belongs in usufruct to the living, and the dead have no power over it. THE station which we occupy among the nations of the earth is honorable,...world, the only monument of human rights and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and self-government, from hence it is to be lighted up in... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1922 - 292 pages
...address of the citizens of Washington and in the patriotic sentiments it expresses, I see the trne character of the national metropolis. The station...fire of freedom and self-government, from hence, it la to be lighted up in other regions of the earth. If other regions of the earth ever become susceptible... | |
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The station which we occupy among the nations of the earth is honorable, but awful. Trusted with the destinies of this solitary republic of the world, the only monument of human rights, and the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom and selfgovernment... 
