The Life, Speeches, and Memorials of Daniel Webster |
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... knowledge of almost every description . In those primeval times when the luxuries and even the conveniences of civilization were rarely attainable , except by those most favored by fortune , Ebenezer Webster pursued his lonely and ...
... knowledge of almost every description . In those primeval times when the luxuries and even the conveniences of civilization were rarely attainable , except by those most favored by fortune , Ebenezer Webster pursued his lonely and ...
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... , and it was necessary for him , even during the severest rigors of winter , to walk thither and back . He was ardent in the pursuit of knowledge , and , indeed , seemed intuitively to appreciate OF DANIEL WEBSTER . 11.
... , and it was necessary for him , even during the severest rigors of winter , to walk thither and back . He was ardent in the pursuit of knowledge , and , indeed , seemed intuitively to appreciate OF DANIEL WEBSTER . 11.
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Samuel Mosheim Smucker. knowledge , and , indeed , seemed intuitively to appreciate it vast importance . At the age of fourteen he could repeat from memory the whole of Pope's Essay on Man , together with a large proportion of the hymns ...
Samuel Mosheim Smucker. knowledge , and , indeed , seemed intuitively to appreciate it vast importance . At the age of fourteen he could repeat from memory the whole of Pope's Essay on Man , together with a large proportion of the hymns ...
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... knowledge may have given young Webster's mind a bias for the abstruse science of the law , which afterward attracted him toward that profession as his chief employ- ment in the future . But it will doubtless clearly appear to every ...
... knowledge may have given young Webster's mind a bias for the abstruse science of the law , which afterward attracted him toward that profession as his chief employ- ment in the future . But it will doubtless clearly appear to every ...
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... knowledge equalled that of young Webster . He was especially facile and apt in the comprehension and acquisition of principles ; and in nine months he accomplished as much as most . youths would have done in two years . His health was ...
... knowledge equalled that of young Webster . He was especially facile and apt in the comprehension and acquisition of principles ; and in nine months he accomplished as much as most . youths would have done in two years . His health was ...
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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.