I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed... Everyday Classics: Sixth Reader - Page 270by Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1917 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...fountain of national, social, and personal happiness. I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess...accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below"; nor could I regard... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...fountain of national, social, and personal happiness. I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess...accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whethei, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below; nor could I regard... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...fountain of national, social, and personal happiness. I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess...accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below; nor could I regard... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - American literature - 1830 - 334 pages
...fountain of national, social, and personal happiness. I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess...accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below ; nor could I regard... | |
| Charles Knapp Dillaway - Recitations - 1830 - 484 pages
...fountain of national, social, personal happiness. 1 have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess...accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below ; nor could I regard... | |
| George Ticknor - 1831 - 56 pages
...fountain of national, social, and personal happiness. I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the union, To see what might lie hidden in the dark recess...accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below; nor could I regard... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...fountain of national, social, and personal happiness., I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess...accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below; nor could I regard... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...fountain of national, social, and personal happiness, I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess...accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below : nor could I regard... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...copious fountain of national, social and personal happiness. I have net allowed myself to look beyond the union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess...accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below ; nor could I regard... | |
| Joseph Blunt - History - 1832 - 916 pages
...•of national, social, and personal happiness. I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess...asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over theprecipiceofdisunion. to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below... | |
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