Daniel Webster. Representative SpeechesDoubleday & McClure Company, 1898 - 183 Seiten |
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... true , so much the eloquence of reason at last , so strikingly always they contrived to link the immediate topic with other and broader principles , ascending easily to widest generali- zations , so happy was the reconciliation of the ...
... true , so much the eloquence of reason at last , so strikingly always they contrived to link the immediate topic with other and broader principles , ascending easily to widest generali- zations , so happy was the reconciliation of the ...
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... true that no one can safely be pro- nounced happy while he lives , if that event which terminates life can alone crown its hon- ors and its glory , what felicity is here ! The great epic of their lives , how happily concluded ! Poetry ...
... true that no one can safely be pro- nounced happy while he lives , if that event which terminates life can alone crown its hon- ors and its glory , what felicity is here ! The great epic of their lives , how happily concluded ! Poetry ...
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... true philosophy and the just mode of inquiring after truth , has kept on its course successfully and gloriously . Newton died ; yet the courses of the spheres are still known , and they yet move on by the laws which he discov- ered ...
... true philosophy and the just mode of inquiring after truth , has kept on its course successfully and gloriously . Newton died ; yet the courses of the spheres are still known , and they yet move on by the laws which he discov- ered ...
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... True eloquence , indeed , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and learning may toil for it , but they will toil in vain . Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way , but they cannot compass it . It ...
... True eloquence , indeed , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and learning may toil for it , but they will toil in vain . Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way , but they cannot compass it . It ...
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... true , indeed , that in the beginning we aimed not at independence . But there's a Divinity which shapes our ends . The injustice of Eng- land has driven us to arms ; and , blinded to her own interest for our good , she has obsti ...
... true , indeed , that in the beginning we aimed not at independence . But there's a Divinity which shapes our ends . The injustice of Eng- land has driven us to arms ; and , blinded to her own interest for our good , she has obsti ...
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Seite 181 - I profess, sir, in my career, hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline...
Seite 182 - It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity.
Seite 140 - ... the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven — if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the south — and if, moved by local prejudice, or gangrened by state jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!
Seite 37 - If we postpone independence, do we mean to carry on or to give up the war? Do we mean to submit to the measures of Parliament, Boston Port Bill and all ? Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust ? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
Seite 141 - Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.
Seite 40 - Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in heaven. We shall make this a glorious, an immortal day.
Seite 39 - Read this Declaration at the head of the army ; every sword will be drawn from its scabbard, and the solemn vow uttered to maintain it, or to perish on the bed of honor.
Seite 143 - I understand him to maintain, that the ultimate power of judging of the constitutional extent of its own authority is not lodged exclusively in the general government, or any branch of it ; but that, on the contrary, the States may lawfully decide for themselves, and each State for itself, whether, in a given case, the act of the general government transcends its power.
Seite 152 - In Carolina the tariff is a palpable, deliberate usurpation; Carolina, therefore, may nullify it and refuse to pay the duties. In Pennsylvania it is both clearly constitutional and highly expedient; and there the duties are to be paid. And yet we live under a Government of uniform laws, and under a Constitution, too, which contains an express provision, as it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the States! Does not this approach absurdity? If there be no power to settle such questions,...
Seite 113 - Now this measure was adopted by a vote of 115 to 86 of a republican congress, and sanctioned by a republican president.