The Life, Speeches and Memorials of Daniel Webster ...Belford, Clarke & Company, 1859 - 548 pages |
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... speaking was rapid , declamatory , yet not devoid of brilliancy and force . He was deficient in that weight and impressiveness which alone belong to men of greater calibre ; though , while speaking , few men could ex- ceed him in the ...
... speaking was rapid , declamatory , yet not devoid of brilliancy and force . He was deficient in that weight and impressiveness which alone belong to men of greater calibre ; though , while speaking , few men could ex- ceed him in the ...
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... speak it to her praise , that at the very moment when , in one quarter , we heard it so- lemnly proclaimed , ' that it did not become a religious and moral people to rejoice at the victories of our army or our navy , ' her Legislature ...
... speak it to her praise , that at the very moment when , in one quarter , we heard it so- lemnly proclaimed , ' that it did not become a religious and moral people to rejoice at the victories of our army or our navy , ' her Legislature ...
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... speaking of Mr. Hayne , " He has started the lion ; but wait till we hear him roar and feel his claws . " Mr. Webster's friends were hopeful and confident of the issue ; and he himself exhibited that calm and serene manner which he ...
... speaking of Mr. Hayne , " He has started the lion ; but wait till we hear him roar and feel his claws . " Mr. Webster's friends were hopeful and confident of the issue ; and he himself exhibited that calm and serene manner which he ...
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... order of business having been announced , he rose to speak . His appearance at that time was very remark- able . He was then in the prime and fulness of his ma- jestic manhood . A nobler specimen of a man , 8 OF DANIEL WEBSTER . 85.
... order of business having been announced , he rose to speak . His appearance at that time was very remark- able . He was then in the prime and fulness of his ma- jestic manhood . A nobler specimen of a man , 8 OF DANIEL WEBSTER . 85.
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... speaking more than three hours , Mr. Webster concluded with one of his most famous and effective perorations . The majestic and musical tones of the orator seemed to vibrate in the ears of the audience even after he sat down ; and they ...
... speaking more than three hours , Mr. Webster concluded with one of his most famous and effective perorations . The majestic and musical tones of the orator seemed to vibrate in the ears of the audience even after he sat down ; and they ...
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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.