A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster: Preached at the Melodeon, October 31, 1852An uncomplimentary memorial emphasizing negative aspects of Webster's Seventh of March speech and criticizing certain personal qualities and habits. |
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... idea of a great man . In general , greatness is eminence of ability ; so there are as many different forms thereof as there are qualities wherein a man may be eminent . These various forms of greatness should be distinctly marked , that ...
... idea of a great man . In general , greatness is eminence of ability ; so there are as many different forms thereof as there are qualities wherein a man may be eminent . These various forms of greatness should be distinctly marked , that ...
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... ideas , to express them in speech , to organize them into insti- tutions ; to organize things into a machine , men into an army , or a state , or a gang of operatives ; to administer these various organizations . He who is eminent in ...
... ideas , to express them in speech , to organize them into insti- tutions ; to organize things into a machine , men into an army , or a state , or a gang of operatives ; to administer these various organizations . He who is eminent in ...
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... idea of God , and so they worshipped him . So loyal is human nature to its great men . Talk of Democracy ! -we are all looking for a master ; a man manlier than we . We are always looking for a great man to solve the difficulty too hard ...
... idea of God , and so they worshipped him . So loyal is human nature to its great men . Talk of Democracy ! -we are all looking for a master ; a man manlier than we . We are always looking for a great man to solve the difficulty too hard ...
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... ideas , — with absolute truth and absolute right , as the norm of conduct . But , with most men , the affections are developed in advance of the intellect and the conscience ; and the affections want a person . In his actions , a man of ...
... ideas , — with absolute truth and absolute right , as the norm of conduct . But , with most men , the affections are developed in advance of the intellect and the conscience ; and the affections want a person . In his actions , a man of ...
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... ideas of political greatness . If Napoleon the Present goes unwhipped of justice , he will change those ideas again ; not for the world , but for the saloons of Paris , for its journals and its mob . How different are conspicuous men to ...
... ideas of political greatness . If Napoleon the Present goes unwhipped of justice , he will change those ideas again ; not for the world , but for the saloons of Paris , for its journals and its mob . How different are conspicuous men to ...
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Page 78 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 107 - No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode — There they alike in trembling hope repose — The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 64 - ... by inspiring a salutary and conservative principle of virtue and of knowledge in an early age. We hope to excite a feeling of respectability, and a sense of character, by enlarging the capacity and increasing the sphere of intellectual enjoyment. By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion,...
Page 50 - Christian states, in whose hearts there dwell no sentiments of humanity or of justice, and over whom neither the fear of God nor the fear of man exercises a control. In the sight of our law, the African slave-trader is a pirate and a felon ; and in the sight of Heaven, an offender ' far beyond the ordinary depth of human guilt.
Page 26 - Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.
Page 101 - But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Page 99 - Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope and heaven! Let not the land once proud of him Insult him now, Nor brand with deeper shame his dim, Dishonored brow.
Page 70 - Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Page 51 - I believe it is entirely willing, to fulfil all existing engagements and all existing duties, to uphold and defend the Constitution as it is established, with whatever regrets about some provisions which it does actually contain. But to coerce it into silence, to endeavor to restrain its free expression, to seek to compress and confine it, warm as it is, and more heated as such endeavors would inevitably render it, — should this be attempted, I know nothing, even in the Constitution or in the Union...
Page 58 - homebred right, ' a fireside privilege. It hath ever been enjoyed in every house, cottage and cabin in the nation. It is not to be drawn into controversy. It is as undoubted as the right of breathing the air, or walking on the earth. Belonging to private life as a right, it belongs to public life as a duty ; and it is the last duty, which those, whose Representative I am, shall find me to abandon.