The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1853 - 112 pages |
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... condition of those friends he was about to leave behind him , with a singular mixture of consideration , tenderness , and collected- ness of soul . He was not only cool and self - possessed himself , his vigorous spirit even buoyed up ...
... condition of those friends he was about to leave behind him , with a singular mixture of consideration , tenderness , and collected- ness of soul . He was not only cool and self - possessed himself , his vigorous spirit even buoyed up ...
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... condition at the precise moment when he should be entering its confines . Once , being faint , he asked if he were not then dying ? and on being answered that he was not , but that he was near to death , he replied simply , " Well ...
... condition at the precise moment when he should be entering its confines . Once , being faint , he asked if he were not then dying ? and on being answered that he was not , but that he was near to death , he replied simply , " Well ...
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... condition of man below , and feel its responsibilities . He could not look on this mighty system , This universal frame , thus wondrous fair , without feeling that it was created and upheld by an Intelligence , to which all other ...
... condition of man below , and feel its responsibilities . He could not look on this mighty system , This universal frame , thus wondrous fair , without feeling that it was created and upheld by an Intelligence , to which all other ...
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... condition of social life , and at almost any period of time , his great capacity would have been felt and acknowledged . He does not appear , like many eminent men , to be more peculiarly calculated for his own age than for any other ...
... condition of social life , and at almost any period of time , his great capacity would have been felt and acknowledged . He does not appear , like many eminent men , to be more peculiarly calculated for his own age than for any other ...
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... condition of Scotland and Ireland before the respective unions of those king- doms with England , when they acknowledged allegiance to the same king , but had each its separate legislature . The tie , therefore , which our Revolution ...
... condition of Scotland and Ireland before the respective unions of those king- doms with England , when they acknowledged allegiance to the same king , but had each its separate legislature . The tie , therefore , which our Revolution ...
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