The Life, Speeches and Memorials of Daniel Webster ...Belford, Clarke & Company, 1859 - 548 pages |
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Page 10
... and confidence from his fellow - citizens , the office of Associate Judge in the Court of Common Pleas . Of the other members of the family , the most remark- able was Ezekiel Webster , an elder brother of Daniel 10 . THE LIFE AND TIMES.
... and confidence from his fellow - citizens , the office of Associate Judge in the Court of Common Pleas . Of the other members of the family , the most remark- able was Ezekiel Webster , an elder brother of Daniel 10 . THE LIFE AND TIMES.
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... remark that during his boyish days Daniel was called on to contribute his share of manual work to the usual labors of his father's farm ; and we may readily imagine the boy , arrayed in his tow frock and trowsers , with his rake or ...
... remark that during his boyish days Daniel was called on to contribute his share of manual work to the usual labors of his father's farm ; and we may readily imagine the boy , arrayed in his tow frock and trowsers , with his rake or ...
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... remarks , they assume that this college . is a public corporation ; and on this basis their judgment rests . Whether all colleges are not regarded as private and eleemosynary corporations by all law - writers and all judi- cial ...
... remarks , they assume that this college . is a public corporation ; and on this basis their judgment rests . Whether all colleges are not regarded as private and eleemosynary corporations by all law - writers and all judi- cial ...
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... remarks which inflammable natures generally display , and which often leads to more serious consequences than are intended or even anticipated . Mr. Hayne's speech on this occasion was one of his best efforts . On the next day , January ...
... remarks which inflammable natures generally display , and which often leads to more serious consequences than are intended or even anticipated . Mr. Hayne's speech on this occasion was one of his best efforts . On the next day , January ...
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... remark- able in itself , and is so closely connected with the most important incident of Mr. Webster's whole career , we will introduce an extract from it . It will serve to explain more clearly the singular power of that vast avalanche ...
... remark- able in itself , and is so closely connected with the most important incident of Mr. Webster's whole career , we will introduce an extract from it . It will serve to explain more clearly the singular power of that vast avalanche ...
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Page 248 - 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 102 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 346 - Ah! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe.
Page 480 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 215 - 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...
Page 117 - ... that he may be brought before such Judges or other Magistrates, respectively, to the end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered...
Page 218 - States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, .and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 216 - If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary restraint shall succeed to separate it from that union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last,...
Page 444 - O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Page 245 - And if its plain provisions shall now be disregarded, and these new doctrines interpolated in it, it will become as feeble and helpless a being as its enemies, whether early or more recent, could possibly desire.