The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, with a Critical Essay on His Genius and WritingsJ. and H.G. Langley, 1839 - 95 páginas |
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... questions which agitate the present age , on the side of liberal and enlightened sentiments . The age is extraordinary ; the spirit that actuates it is peculiar and marked ; and our own relation to the times we live in , and to the ...
... questions which agitate the present age , on the side of liberal and enlightened sentiments . The age is extraordinary ; the spirit that actuates it is peculiar and marked ; and our own relation to the times we live in , and to the ...
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... question of principle . The parliament of Great Britain asserted a right to tax the colonies in all cases whatso- ever ; and it was precisely on this question that they made the revolution turn . The amount of taxation was trifling ...
... question of principle . The parliament of Great Britain asserted a right to tax the colonies in all cases whatso- ever ; and it was precisely on this question that they made the revolution turn . The amount of taxation was trifling ...
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... question of principle , while ac- tual suffering was yet afar off , they raised their flag against a power to which , for purposes of foreign con- quest and subjugation , Rome , in the height of her glory , is not to be compared ; a ...
... question of principle , while ac- tual suffering was yet afar off , they raised their flag against a power to which , for purposes of foreign con- quest and subjugation , Rome , in the height of her glory , is not to be compared ; a ...
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... question of Slavery , a great portion of the community is already strongly excited . The subject has not only attracted attention as a question of politics , but it has struck a far deeper - toned chord . It has ar rested the religious ...
... question of Slavery , a great portion of the community is already strongly excited . The subject has not only attracted attention as a question of politics , but it has struck a far deeper - toned chord . It has ar rested the religious ...
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... question that exer- cise of power which is so fair in its object , so plausible and patriotic in appearance , and which has the public good alone confessedly in view ? Human things , we may be assured , will generally exercise power ...
... question that exer- cise of power which is so fair in its object , so plausible and patriotic in appearance , and which has the public good alone confessedly in view ? Human things , we may be assured , will generally exercise power ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
affection AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE ages ALEXANDER HAMILTON American Liberty ancestors beauty behold benign blessings blood bosom BUNKER HILL cause character Christian commenced common conscience constitutional liberty contemplate conviction dangerous DANIEL WEBSTER defence ductions duty earth England English language excited executive power exercise existence fame fathers feeling feudal system future genius Gentlemen glory happiness HARVARD COLLEGE heart heaven honor human influence institutions intelligence interest irresistible impulse jealous JOHN JAY judge judgment jury trials justice knowledge labors land light live look Massachusetts ment mighty mind moral MORAL EXAMPLE nations nature neral onward partake pass passion patriotism peace Pilgrims Plymouth political present preservation principles prosperity pular regard religious liberty render resistance restraint revolution rising sentiment shore solemn spirit of liberty stand thing thousand tion triumphs true Union United vision Webster whole wise wish
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Página 91 - 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 the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Página 26 - 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.
Página 45 - He has allowed you to behold and to partake the reward of your patriotic toils; and he has allowed us, your sons and countrymen, to meet you here, and in the name of the present generation, in the name of your country, in the name of liberty, to thank you!
Página 66 - 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.
Página 56 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.
Página 57 - 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.
Página 26 - 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,...
Página 22 - It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration.
Página 64 - England society, let him not give it the grim visage of Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge, the face black with settled hate, and the blood-shot eye emitting livid fires of malice.
Página 25 - 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.