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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... important sermons and other discourses which treat of him , and have conversed with per- sons who have known Mr. Webster at all the various periods of his life . The result is embodied in the following pages . My estimate of Mr. Webster ...
... important sermons and other discourses which treat of him , and have conversed with per- sons who have known Mr. Webster at all the various periods of his life . The result is embodied in the following pages . My estimate of Mr. Webster ...
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... important place which the Anglo- Saxon tribe holds in the world at this day , -occupying one - eighth part of the earth , and controlling one - sixth part of its inhabitants , the national character of England and America becomes one of ...
... important place which the Anglo- Saxon tribe holds in the world at this day , -occupying one - eighth part of the earth , and controlling one - sixth part of its inhabitants , the national character of England and America becomes one of ...
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... important to study carefully our commercial and political action , criticizing both by the Absolute Right ; for they control the development of the people , and deter- mine our character . The commercial and political forces of the time ...
... important to study carefully our commercial and political action , criticizing both by the Absolute Right ; for they control the development of the people , and deter- mine our character . The commercial and political forces of the time ...
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... important to study the character of all eminent men ; for they represent great social forces for good or ill . - It is true , great men ought to be tried by their peers . But " a cat may look upon a king , " and , if she is to enter his ...
... important to study the character of all eminent men ; for they represent great social forces for good or ill . - It is true , great men ought to be tried by their peers . But " a cat may look upon a king , " and , if she is to enter his ...
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... importance . Our nation is a great committee of the whole ; our State is a provisional government , riches our only heritable good , greatness our only personal nobility ; office is elective . To the ambition of a great bad man , or the ...
... importance . Our nation is a great committee of the whole ; our State is a provisional government , riches our only heritable good , greatness our only personal nobility ; office is elective . To the ambition of a great bad man , or the ...
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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.