Webster and His Master-pieces, Band 2Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854 Vol. 1 comprises a biography of Daniel Webster; v. 2 consists of speeches and writings by Webster. |
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... liberty , or estate , but by judgment of his peers or the law of the land . " In the opinion , however , which was given in the court below , it is denied that the trustees under the charter had any prop- erty , immunity , liberty , or ...
... liberty , or estate , but by judgment of his peers or the law of the land . " In the opinion , however , which was given in the court below , it is denied that the trustees under the charter had any prop- erty , immunity , liberty , or ...
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... liberty are used as synony- mous terms . And after enumerating other liberties and fran- chises , he says : " It is likewise a franchise for a number of persons to be incorporated and subsist as a body politic , with a power to maintain ...
... liberty are used as synony- mous terms . And after enumerating other liberties and fran- chises , he says : " It is likewise a franchise for a number of persons to be incorporated and subsist as a body politic , with a power to maintain ...
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... liberty , property , and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society . Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law of the land . If this were so , acts ...
... liberty , property , and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society . Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law of the land . If this were so , acts ...
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... to those principles of civil and religious liberty , which they encountered the dangers of the ocean , the storms of heaven , the violence of savages , disease , exile , and famine , to FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND . 61.
... to those principles of civil and religious liberty , which they encountered the dangers of the ocean , the storms of heaven , the violence of savages , disease , exile , and famine , to FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND . 61.
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... liberty , in our regard for whatever advances human knowledge or improves human happiness , we are not altogether unworthy of our origin . There is a local feeling connected with this occasion , too strong to be resisted ; a sort of ...
... liberty , in our regard for whatever advances human knowledge or improves human happiness , we are not altogether unworthy of our origin . There is a local feeling connected with this occasion , too strong to be resisted ; a sort of ...
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Seite 408 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Seite 256 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Seite 256 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
Seite 479 - It has a preamble, and that preamble expressly recites, that the duties which it imposes are laid " for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures.
Seite 202 - Resolved, That the Declaration, passed on the fourth, be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and style of ' THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ' ; and that the same, when engrossed be signed by every member of Congress.
Seite 424 - Canada acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Seite 249 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Seite 204 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action/ In July 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument.
Seite 160 - We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.
Seite 408 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over...