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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... never sets , and where the tax - gatherer never goes to bed . " - - This celebrated image of the British " drum - beat " is here cited sim- ply to indicate the natural way in which all the faculties of Webster are brought into ...
... never sets , and where the tax - gatherer never goes to bed . " - - This celebrated image of the British " drum - beat " is here cited sim- ply to indicate the natural way in which all the faculties of Webster are brought into ...
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... never more happily exercised . In that word " plun- ging , " he intended to condense all his horror and hatred of a transaction which he supposed calculated to throw the true principles of constitu- tional government into a bottomless ...
... never more happily exercised . In that word " plun- ging , " he intended to condense all his horror and hatred of a transaction which he supposed calculated to throw the true principles of constitu- tional government into a bottomless ...
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... never dream of imposing upon them . But it is also to be observed , that some writers have the power of giving a new and special significance to a common word , by impressing on it a wealth of meaning which it cannot claim for itself ...
... never dream of imposing upon them . But it is also to be observed , that some writers have the power of giving a new and special significance to a common word , by impressing on it a wealth of meaning which it cannot claim for itself ...
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... never passed a word between them on which the most ingenious Southern jurists , in their interpretations of the " code " of honor , could have found matter for a personal quarrel ; and yet these two proud and strong personalities knew ...
... never passed a word between them on which the most ingenious Southern jurists , in their interpretations of the " code " of honor , could have found matter for a personal quarrel ; and yet these two proud and strong personalities knew ...
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... never been criticised in the House of Commons as " humble , wheedling , and caressing . " In addition , however , to his legal arguments , his senatorial speeches , and his state papers , Webster is to be considered as the greatest ...
... never been criticised in the House of Commons as " humble , wheedling , and caressing . " In addition , however , to his legal arguments , his senatorial speeches , and his state papers , Webster is to be considered as the greatest ...
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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!