 | C. Richard King - 2000 - 380 страници
...belong to their age, and to mingle our own existence with theirs. . . . We become their contemporaries, live the lives which they lived, endure what they...endured, and partake in the rewards which they enjoyed" (Webster 1894, 26). The simultaneous connection between Pilgrim past and postrevolutionary present... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 590 страници
...place or time ; and, looking before and after, to hold communion at once with our ancestors and our posterity. Human and mortal although we are, we are...which may promote their happiness, and leave some not dishonorable memorial of ourselves for their regard, when we shall sleep with the fathers, we protract... | |
 | Anthon Henrik Lund - 1910 - 252 страници
...mingle our own existence with theirs and seem to belong to their age. We become their contemporaries, live the lives which they lived, endure what they...endured, and partake in the rewards which they enjoyed." We are under a lasting and sacred obligation to our ancestors who have transmitted to us a good name,... | |
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... by partaking their sentiments, and imbibing their spirit ; by accompanying them in their toils ; by sympathizing in their sufferings, and rejoicing in their successes and their triumphs — we mingle our own existence with theirs, and seem to belong... 
