Life of Daniel WebsterPorter and Coates, 1854 - 498 páginas |
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... honor to his memory ; and the first jurists of the nation , with the most able and noted ad- vocates , as well as every class and individual connected with our tribunals , seemed to be in haste to free their breasts and tell the world ...
... honor to his memory ; and the first jurists of the nation , with the most able and noted ad- vocates , as well as every class and individual connected with our tribunals , seemed to be in haste to free their breasts and tell the world ...
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... honor the past and give promise of the future . As a specimen of this feeling , it is a curious fact , that the eldest brother of Daniel , his father , grandfather and great - grand- FAMILY TRAITS . 23 Not father , who were all.
... honor the past and give promise of the future . As a specimen of this feeling , it is a curious fact , that the eldest brother of Daniel , his father , grandfather and great - grand- FAMILY TRAITS . 23 Not father , who were all.
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... honor . In this , we have no prejudices of such a nature ; but if we had , it would be honor enough for any young man to be the son of a revolu- tionary soldier . This honor Daniel Webster had ; and this , except that patent to nobility ...
... honor . In this , we have no prejudices of such a nature ; but if we had , it would be honor enough for any young man to be the son of a revolu- tionary soldier . This honor Daniel Webster had ; and this , except that patent to nobility ...
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... a judge of the court of common pleas , the duties of which he is said to have discharged , to the close of his career , with integrity and honor . THE OLD HOMESTEAD . 27 Such was the life of 26 WEBSTER AND HIS MASTER - PIECES .
... a judge of the court of common pleas , the duties of which he is said to have discharged , to the close of his career , with integrity and honor . THE OLD HOMESTEAD . 27 Such was the life of 26 WEBSTER AND HIS MASTER - PIECES .
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... honor of America , will , at this time , experience a renewal of all that fervent patriotism , of all those indescribable emotions , which then agitated your breasts . As for us , who were either then unborn , or not far enough advanced ...
... honor of America , will , at this time , experience a renewal of all that fervent patriotism , of all those indescribable emotions , which then agitated your breasts . As for us , who were either then unborn , or not far enough advanced ...
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Página 278 - 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 ! Let their last, feeble, and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Página 274 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
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.
Página 306 - 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.
Página 350 - It is agreed that the United States and her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder...
Página 56 - 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 must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Página 225 - There is an enemy that still exists to check the glory of these triumphs. It follows the conqueror back to the very scene of his ovations ; it calls upon him to take notice that Europe, though silent, is yet indignant ; it shows him that the sceptre of his victory is a barren sceptre ; that it shall confer neither joy nor honor, but shall moulder to dry ashes in his grasp. In the midst of his exultation, it pierces his ear with the cry of injured justice ; it denounces against him the indignation...
Página 189 - ... shall our State Legislatures be allowed to take that which is not their own, to turn it from its original use, and apply it to such ends or purposes as they, in their discretion, shall see fit...
Página 348 - The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare, equip, and maintain in service on the coast of Africa a sufficient and adequate squadron or naval force of vessels of suitable numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations of each of the two countries for the suppression of the slave-trade...
Página 339 - Of pending questions the most important is that which exists with the Government of Great Britain in respect to our northeastern boundary. It is with unfeigned regret that the people of the United States must look back upon the abortive efforts made by the Executive, for a period of more than half a century, to determine what no nation should suffer long to remain in dispute — the true line which divides its possessions from those of other powers.
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