The Life, Speeches, and Memorials of Daniel Webster |
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... civilized nations have been proud of the fame of their most eminent orators and statesmen . Greece , the gifted land of ancient art and genius , boasts of her Demosthenes and Eschines ; Rome , the martial mistress of the world , of her ...
... civilized nations have been proud of the fame of their most eminent orators and statesmen . Greece , the gifted land of ancient art and genius , boasts of her Demosthenes and Eschines ; Rome , the martial mistress of the world , of her ...
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... civilized world felt a deep interest in that memorable struggle . England , France , Germany and Poland had experienced the thrilling effect of a spectacle in which , on the one hand , the noblest attributes of humanity - its heroism 52 ...
... civilized world felt a deep interest in that memorable struggle . England , France , Germany and Poland had experienced the thrilling effect of a spectacle in which , on the one hand , the noblest attributes of humanity - its heroism 52 ...
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... civilized world that service which was once performed by Edmund Burke , I mean the compiler of the English Annual Re- gister , asks by what authority this assembly could call itself a congress . Simply , sir , by the same authority by ...
... civilized world that service which was once performed by Edmund Burke , I mean the compiler of the English Annual Re- gister , asks by what authority this assembly could call itself a congress . Simply , sir , by the same authority by ...
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... civilized world , and inspire them with constancy in the pursuit of their great end . At any rate , sir , it appears to me that the measure which I have proposed is due to our own character and called for by our own duty . When we shall ...
... civilized world , and inspire them with constancy in the pursuit of their great end . At any rate , sir , it appears to me that the measure which I have proposed is due to our own character and called for by our own duty . When we shall ...
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... civilized world with a pathos not easy to be resisted . They invoke our favor by more moving considerations than can well belong to the condition of any other people . They stretch out their arms to the Christian communities of the ...
... civilized world with a pathos not easy to be resisted . They invoke our favor by more moving considerations than can well belong to the condition of any other people . They stretch out their arms to the Christian communities of the ...
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Page 224 - 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!
Page 408 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 223 - I profess, Sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance,...
Page 145 - President, 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.
Page 193 - 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.
Page 283 - In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow. And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill...
Page 307 - He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstances to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Page 103 - ... committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum, or shall be found, within the territories of the other : provided that this shall only be done upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 214 - This, sir, was the first great step. By this, the supremacy of the constitution and laws of the United States is declared. The people so...
Page 260 - ... without convulsion, may look the next hour to see the heavenly bodies rush from their spheres, and jostle against each other in the realms of space, without causing the wreck of the universe.