Christopher Smith
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315 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
Christopher Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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After a while four or five bridges will span the water, and we shall be still more emphatically one than now.
When therefore I say New York City, I mean more than a million of people, including everything between Spyton Dival Creek and Gowanus.
That which tends to elevate a part elevates all.
That which blasts part blasts all.
Sin is a giant, and he comes to the Hudson or Connecticut River and passes it as easily as we step across a figure in the carpet.
The blessing of God is an angel, and when it stretches out its two wings, one of them hovers over that and the other over this.
In infancy the great metropolis was laid down by the banks of the Hudson.
Its infancy was as feeble as that of Moses, sleeping in the bulrushes by the Nile, and like Miriam, there our fathers stood and watched it.
The royal spirit of American commerce came down to the water to bathe, and there she found it.
She took it in her arms, and the child grew and waxed strong, and the ships of foreign lands brought gold and spices to its feet, and, stretching itself up into the proportions of a metropolis, it has looked up to the mountains and off upon the sea, one of the mightiest of the energies of American civilization.
The character of the founder of a city will be seen for many years in its inhabitants.
Romulus impressed his life upon Rome.
The pilgrims relax not their hold upon the cities of New England.
William Penn has left Philadelphia an inheritance of integrity and fair dealing, and on any day in that city you may see, in the manners, customs, and principles of its people, his tastes, his coat, his hat, his wife's bonnet, and his plain meeting house.
The Hollanders still wield an influence over New York.
Grand Old New York
What southern thoroughfare was ever smitten by pestilence when our physicians did not throw themselves upon the sacrifice, or
What distant land has cried out in the agony of famine, and our ships have not put out with breadstuffs.
What street of Damascus or Beirut or Madras that has not heard the step of our missionaries?
What struggle for national life in which our citizens have not poured their blood into the trenches?
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