The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster: With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style |
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... words must of course be exhibited in his " compositions " or his " themes " but when the latter are examined , they are commonly found to be feeble and lifeless , with hardly a thought or a word which bears any stamp of freshness or ...
... words must of course be exhibited in his " compositions " or his " themes " but when the latter are examined , they are commonly found to be feeble and lifeless , with hardly a thought or a word which bears any stamp of freshness or ...
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... words they employ as identical with facts . When they meet a man who has half the dictionary at his disposal , and yet gives no evidence of apprehending the real import and mean . ing of one word among the many thousands he glibly pours ...
... words they employ as identical with facts . When they meet a man who has half the dictionary at his disposal , and yet gives no evidence of apprehending the real import and mean . ing of one word among the many thousands he glibly pours ...
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... words to embody all that his vast exceptional intelligence acquired , thought , imagined , and discovered ; and he had earned the right to use every one of them . Milton found that eight thousand words could fairly and fully represent ...
... words to embody all that his vast exceptional intelligence acquired , thought , imagined , and discovered ; and he had earned the right to use every one of them . Milton found that eight thousand words could fairly and fully represent ...
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... word that was not level to the comprehension of the least educated man on the panel . This led me , " he adds , " to ... words and quaint illustrations which they would have used if asked to give their opin- ions on the case . It is to ...
... word that was not level to the comprehension of the least educated man on the panel . This led me , " he adds , " to ... words and quaint illustrations which they would have used if asked to give their opin- ions on the case . It is to ...
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... words when a great man - great in his emotional nature as well as great in logical power is behind the words . " It is , sir , as I have said , a small college . And yet there are those who love it . " At this point the orator's lips ...
... words when a great man - great in his emotional nature as well as great in logical power is behind the words . " It is , sir , as I have said , a small college . And yet there are those who love it . " At this point the orator's lips ...
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Page 510 - For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 336 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground. Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
Page 170 - On its annual return they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy. Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it ; and I leave off, as I begun, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the declaration.
Page 16 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law of the land.
Page 335 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens, the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 511 - 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.
Page 169 - Publish it from the pulpit ; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it, or fall with it. Send it to the public halls ; proclaim it there ; let them hear it, who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon ; let them see it, who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker- Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support.
Page 219 - 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 127 - All is peace. The heights of yonder metropolis, its towers and roofs, which you then saw filled with wives and children and countrymen in distress and terror, and looking with unutterable emotions for the issue of the combat, have presented you to-day with the sight of its whole happy population, come out to welcome and greet you with a universal jubilee.
Page 246 - 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. If discord and disunion shall wound...