Daniel Webster: An Oration on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Statue of Mr. Webster, in Boston, September 17th, 1859H.H. Lloyd & Company, 1859 - 210 pages |
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... nature , reached a perfection unknown to Egypt or Assyria ; and the heroes and sages of Greece and Rome , immortalized by the sculptor , still people the galleries and museums of the modern world . In every succeeding age and in every ...
... nature , reached a perfection unknown to Egypt or Assyria ; and the heroes and sages of Greece and Rome , immortalized by the sculptor , still people the galleries and museums of the modern world . In every succeeding age and in every ...
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... natural position , she rejoices in her beautiful environs , she is grateful for her material prosperity ; but richer than the merchandise stored in palatial warehouses , greener than the slopes of sea - girt islets , lovelier than this ...
... natural position , she rejoices in her beautiful environs , she is grateful for her material prosperity ; but richer than the merchandise stored in palatial warehouses , greener than the slopes of sea - girt islets , lovelier than this ...
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... nature is not pleased to strew flowers on the sod ? What honorable op- ponent , still faithful to principle , is not willing that all in which he differed from him should be referred , without bitterness , to the impartial arbitrament ...
... nature is not pleased to strew flowers on the sod ? What honorable op- ponent , still faithful to principle , is not willing that all in which he differed from him should be referred , without bitterness , to the impartial arbitrament ...
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... nature of the events in progress at home and abroad . His recollections , he tells us in an autobiographical sketch , went back to the year 1790 - a year when the political system of continental Europe was about to plunge into a state ...
... nature of the events in progress at home and abroad . His recollections , he tells us in an autobiographical sketch , went back to the year 1790 - a year when the political system of continental Europe was about to plunge into a state ...
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... were second - rate men ; far otherwise . It has sometimes seemed to me that , owing to the natural reverence in which we hold the leaders of the Revolutionary period - the heroic age of the country - and those of the DANIEL WEBSTER . 185.
... were second - rate men ; far otherwise . It has sometimes seemed to me that , owing to the natural reverence in which we hold the leaders of the Revolutionary period - the heroic age of the country - and those of the DANIEL WEBSTER . 185.
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Page 183 - Oh Death ! where is thy sting ? Oh Grave ! where is thy victory ? The sting of Death is sin, and the strength of sin is the Law.
Page 210 - I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Page 236 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Page 251 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Page 236 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 246 - The Constitution and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land, and to these every citizen of every State owes obedience, whether in his individual or official capacity.
Page 210 - I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means ; and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction, even although we should rue it, — which I trust in God we shall not.
Page 239 - The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, ' ' anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 239 - The Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual States. Each State established a Constitution for itself, and in that Constitution provided such limitations and restrictions on the powers of its particular government as its judgment dictated. The people of the United States...
Page 266 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.