...thoughts will rise unbidden in a statesman's mind when he muses on the prophecy of Berkeley: Westward the course of Empire takes its way ; The four first acts...drama with the day ;— Time's noblest offspring is his last. THE END. ON the 8th of August, ten turtles, a negro youth, and myself embarked on board the...

...fresh and young> When heavenly flame did animate the clay, By future ages shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A ffih shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. 1730. THE TRAILING...

...character and human affairs shall be made on this theatre of the western world ; if it be true that, " 'The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last ; ' how could this imposing, swelling, final scene be appropriately opened, how could its intense interest...

...the'speculations of our " students of prophecy." " Westward the course of empire takes its way The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last." * The French and Spanish languagea are spoken in Louisiana, and the German in Pennsylvania; but these...

...which we are now called upon to witness and to describe. " Westward the course of error takes \\afight; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the night; Schism's blackest offspring is the last." And tremendous indeed is the last offspring of religious...

...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward, the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last. " There is a gentleman of this kingdom gone for England,—it is Dr George Berkeley, dean of Derry;...

...century ago by Bp. Berkeley, which I must quote, though I shall suffer by the comparison. Westward the course of empire takes its way : The four first acts...shall close the drama with the day. Time's noblest ofispring is the last P. 283, 1. 14. Tltc spoiler sailed of all ; Cortes. A peine put-il obtenir audience...

...heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire take its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth...the day : , Time's noblest offspring is the last. A SERMON, PHKACHID BEFORE nil. INCORPORATED SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS,...

...poets shall be sung. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay,— Such as she bred when fresh and young, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day— Westward the course of empire takes its way; Time's noblest offspring is the last. LESSON XXVIII. Cleopatra...

...hand away to the West, as he repeated these wonderful words to his painter-companion: " Westward, the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last." " Confiding," says Verplanck, in his noble tribute to Berkeley, "in these glorious auguries, and animated...