The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1853 - 112 pages |
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Daniel Webster. afternoon . The Hon . ABIEL FOSTER , M. C. , who lived in Canter- bury , six miles off , called ... member of Con- gress ; he goes to Philadelphia , and gets six dollars a day , while I toil here . It is because he ...
Daniel Webster. afternoon . The Hon . ABIEL FOSTER , M. C. , who lived in Canter- bury , six miles off , called ... member of Con- gress ; he goes to Philadelphia , and gets six dollars a day , while I toil here . It is because he ...
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... honorable member was not , for other reasons , entirely happy in his allusions to the story of Banquo's murder , and Ban- quo's ghost . It was not , I think , the friends , but the enemies of the murdered Banquo , at whose bidding his ...
... honorable member was not , for other reasons , entirely happy in his allusions to the story of Banquo's murder , and Ban- quo's ghost . It was not , I think , the friends , but the enemies of the murdered Banquo , at whose bidding his ...
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... honorable member to give it dignity or decency , by attempting to elevate it , and introduce it into the Senate . He cannot change it from what it is — an object of general disgust and scorn . On the contrary , the contact , if he ...
... honorable member to give it dignity or decency , by attempting to elevate it , and introduce it into the Senate . He cannot change it from what it is — an object of general disgust and scorn . On the contrary , the contact , if he ...
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... honorable services . It was his fortune to bear a part in the negociation for peace with England , and in something ... member of the Convention of this Commonwealth called to revise the Constitution . Forty years before , he had ...
... honorable services . It was his fortune to bear a part in the negociation for peace with England , and in something ... member of the Convention of this Commonwealth called to revise the Constitution . Forty years before , he had ...
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... honorable member's attention , save only the resolution before He has spoken of every thing but the public lands . They have escaped his notice . To that subject , in all his excursions , he has not paid even the cold respect of a ...
... honorable member's attention , save only the resolution before He has spoken of every thing but the public lands . They have escaped his notice . To that subject , in all his excursions , he has not paid even the cold respect of a ...
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