The Life, Speeches and Memorials of Daniel Webster ...Belford, Clarke & Company, 1859 - 548 Seiten |
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... person destined soon to become the victim of con- sumption ; nor would any intelligent observer have pre- dicted for him a long life , any more than he would have guaranteed him an illustrious career . He was panied to Exeter by his ...
... person destined soon to become the victim of con- sumption ; nor would any intelligent observer have pre- dicted for him a long life , any more than he would have guaranteed him an illustrious career . He was panied to Exeter by his ...
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... person of his gifted scholar ; and he determined that it should not always remain hidden in the " dark unfathomed caves " of the ocean of obscurity where it then lay . He conversed with Daniel's father on the subject , and urged upon ...
... person of his gifted scholar ; and he determined that it should not always remain hidden in the " dark unfathomed caves " of the ocean of obscurity where it then lay . He conversed with Daniel's father on the subject , and urged upon ...
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... person . He was then not only de- serving of the epithet of " Black Dan , " but also of " Blue Dan . " Notwithstanding his repulsive appearance , he passed a favorable examination , and was admitted to the Freshman class . Dr. John ...
... person . He was then not only de- serving of the epithet of " Black Dan , " but also of " Blue Dan . " Notwithstanding his repulsive appearance , he passed a favorable examination , and was admitted to the Freshman class . Dr. John ...
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... person of great beauty , intelligence and amiability . In an old newspaper which is long since defunct forever , named the Portsmouth Oracle , this event is thus very briefly narrated : “ Married , in Salisbury , Daniel Webster , Esq ...
... person of great beauty , intelligence and amiability . In an old newspaper which is long since defunct forever , named the Portsmouth Oracle , this event is thus very briefly narrated : “ Married , in Salisbury , Daniel Webster , Esq ...
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... person he met with - a female - of robbing him ; and so continued charging various people about him with the robbery . After some time , a lantern was pro- cured , and himself with others started for the place of the robbery , where ...
... person he met with - a female - of robbing him ; and so continued charging various people about him with the robbery . After some time , a lantern was pro- cured , and himself with others started for the place of the robbery , where ...
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Seite 248 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent, on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Seite 102 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Seite 346 - Ah! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe.
Seite 480 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Seite 215 - And, Sir, where American Liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit. If discord and disunion shall wound...
Seite 117 - ... that he may be brought before such Judges or other Magistrates, respectively, to the end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered...
Seite 218 - States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, .and liberties appertaining to them.
Seite 216 - If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary restraint shall succeed to separate it from that union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last,...
Seite 444 - O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Seite 245 - And if its plain provisions shall now be disregarded, and these new doctrines interpolated in it, it will become as feeble and helpless a being as its enemies, whether early or more recent, could possibly desire.