 | Methodist Church - 1876 - 782 pages
...follow without hinderance its instincts of freedom and human rights, and to achieve its high destiny. " The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And empire rises where the sun descends." There is an old Anglo-Saxon proverb, " Blood will tell." It tells constantly in their history, and... | |
 | William Henry Seward - Phi Beta Kappa addresses - 1854 - 28 pages
...which the rising curtain discloses to us here! and how sublime the pacific part assigned to us ! " The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And Empire rises where the sun descends." But, restraining the imagination from its desire to follow the influences of the United States in their... | |
 | Lewis Gaylord Clark - American literature - 1855 - 722 pages
...which the rising curtain discloses to us here ! and how sublime the pacific part assigned to us ! " THE Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And Empire rises where the sun descends." But, restraining the imagination from its desire to follow the influences of the United States in their... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...of which mnAnd empire rises where the sun descends: His friend, after a moment's pause, gave him — The eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And empire rises where the sun descends. •* I asked him," continues Adams, " if Dean Berkeley was the author of them. He answered, no. The... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...which ranAnd empire rises where the sun descends: His friend, after a moment's pause, gave him — The eastern nations sink, their glory ends. And empire rises where the sun descends. "I asked him,™ continues Adams, " if Dean Berkeley was the author of them. He answered, no. The tradition... | |
 | American essays - 1867 - 1052 pages
...neighbor, he recalled a couplet that had been repeated with rapture as long as he •could remember : — " The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And empire rises where the sun descends.'' . It was imagined by his neighbor that these lines came from some of our early pilgrims, — by whom... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - United States - 1872 - 676 pages
...world.1 It was a tradition that the Pilgrims who founded Plymouth inscribed on a rock the couplet, — " The eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And empire rises where the sun descends." 3 An Italian poet, inspired by the presence of Benjamin West, sung that the spirit of venerable Rome,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - United States - 1874 - 214 pages
...neighbor, he recalled a couplet that had been repeated with rapture as long as he could remember : — " The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And empire rises where the sun descends." It was imagined by his neighbor that these lines came from some of our early pilgrims, — by whom... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1876 - 778 pages
...follow without hinderance its instincts of freedom and human rights, and to achieve its high destiny. " The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And empire rises where the sun descends." There is an old Anglo-Saxon proverb, " Blood will tell." It tells constantly in their history, and... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1877 - 562 pages
...octogenarian neighbor, he recalled a couplet which he Lad heard repeated "for more than sixty years": — "The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And empire rises where the sun descends." The tradition was, as his neighbor had heard it, that these lines came from some of our early Pilgrims,... | |
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He recalled a couplet that had been inscribed or rather drilled, into a rock on the shore of Monument Bay in our old colony of Plymouth: " 'The Eastern nations sink, their glory ends, And empire rises where the sun descends. 
