The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster: With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English StyleLittle, Brown, 1886 - 707 páginas |
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... fact , which was one of the sources of the force and simplicity of Mr. Webster's mature style . He , however , only obtained these good qualities of rhetoric by long struggles with con- stant temptations , in his early life , to use ...
... fact , which was one of the sources of the force and simplicity of Mr. Webster's mature style . He , however , only obtained these good qualities of rhetoric by long struggles with con- stant temptations , in his early life , to use ...
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... fact that the people of the Southern States were widening , year by year , the distance which separated them from the people of the Northern States . We have no means of judging whether Webster clearly foresaw the frightful civil war ...
... fact that the people of the Southern States were widening , year by year , the distance which separated them from the people of the Northern States . We have no means of judging whether Webster clearly foresaw the frightful civil war ...
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... fact being announced all over the country as indis- putable proof that he was an habitual drunkard , though the most remarkable characteristic of his speeches is their temperance , - their " total abstinence " from all the intoxicating ...
... fact being announced all over the country as indis- putable proof that he was an habitual drunkard , though the most remarkable characteristic of his speeches is their temperance , - their " total abstinence " from all the intoxicating ...
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... fact . " " Oh ! " replied Mr. Webster , " I can remove the gentleman's incredulity very easily , for I can assure ... facts recorded in the history of the government established by it . Macaulay , in his lively way , has shown the ...
... fact . " " Oh ! " replied Mr. Webster , " I can remove the gentleman's incredulity very easily , for I can assure ... facts recorded in the history of the government established by it . Macaulay , in his lively way , has shown the ...
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... audiences proceeded from his respect for them ;, and their respect for him was more or less consciously founded on the perception of this fact . Indeed , a close scrutiny of his speeches will show AS A MASTER OF ENGLISH STYLE . xlv.
... audiences proceeded from his respect for them ;, and their respect for him was more or less consciously founded on the perception of this fact . Indeed , a close scrutiny of his speeches will show AS A MASTER OF ENGLISH STYLE . xlv.
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Página 256 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact : as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact...
Página 318 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Página 254 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon 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.
Página 163 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Página 332 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Página 523 - February 28, 1795, provided, that, " in case of an insurrection in any State against the government thereof, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such State or of the executive, when the legislature cannot be convened, to call forth such number of the militia of any other State or States, as may be applied for, as he may judge sufficient to suppress such insurrection.
Página 442 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Página 169 - The war, then, must go on. We must fight it through. And if the war must go on, why put off longer the Declaration of Independence? That measure will strengthen us. It will give us character abroad.
Página 499 - And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
Página 128 - Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty, its aspirations shall be to claim kindred with thy spirit!