The Life, Speeches and Memorials of Daniel Webster ...Belford, Clarke & Company, 1859 - 548 Seiten |
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... present volume , is not so much the exhibition of originality as the attainment of usefulness . That portion of it which is devoted to Mr. Webster's biography presents a history of all the im- portant incidents of his career . The ...
... present volume , is not so much the exhibition of originality as the attainment of usefulness . That portion of it which is devoted to Mr. Webster's biography presents a history of all the im- portant incidents of his career . The ...
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... clients and visitors when he him- self was not present . He rewarded the lad by permitting him to use some of his books , and by giving him useful directions as to his studies . He first placed in 12 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
... clients and visitors when he him- self was not present . He rewarded the lad by permitting him to use some of his books , and by giving him useful directions as to his studies . He first placed in 12 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
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... present system of jurisprudence we see the powers necessary for government voluntarily flowing from the people , their only proper origin , and directed to the public good , their only proper object . " With peculiar propriety we may ...
... present system of jurisprudence we see the powers necessary for government voluntarily flowing from the people , their only proper origin , and directed to the public good , their only proper object . " With peculiar propriety we may ...
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... present Government , in all material respects , could not now be framed . Nothing in it was found to need alteration at the Revolution . The wise men of that day saw in it one of the best hopes of future times , and commended it as it ...
... present Government , in all material respects , could not now be framed . Nothing in it was found to need alteration at the Revolution . The wise men of that day saw in it one of the best hopes of future times , and commended it as it ...
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... present , they have not been able to set their foot . " It was in April of this year that the destruction of Scio took place . That island , a sort of appanage of the Sultana mother , enjoyed many privileges peculiar to itself . OF ...
... present , they have not been able to set their foot . " It was in April of this year that the destruction of Scio took place . That island , a sort of appanage of the Sultana mother , enjoyed many privileges peculiar to itself . OF ...
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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.