The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1853 - 112 pages |
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Page 13
... interests , and even duration , of the republic ; competitors , unequalled in reputation , ability , or position ; a name to make still more glorious , or lose forever ; and an audience , comprising not only persons of this country most ...
... interests , and even duration , of the republic ; competitors , unequalled in reputation , ability , or position ; a name to make still more glorious , or lose forever ; and an audience , comprising not only persons of this country most ...
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... the etiquette of his position . His feelings and his interest in the question made him forgetful of his duty . direction . When they heard his sentences of powerful thought 2 17 plished. Within a few brief months, the political ...
... the etiquette of his position . His feelings and his interest in the question made him forgetful of his duty . direction . When they heard his sentences of powerful thought 2 17 plished. Within a few brief months, the political ...
Page 51
... interest apart from the time and occasion of their delivery , for they are store - houses of thought and knowledge . The speaker descends to no rhetorial tricks and shifts , he indulges in no parade of orna- ment . A self - sustained ...
... interest apart from the time and occasion of their delivery , for they are store - houses of thought and knowledge . The speaker descends to no rhetorial tricks and shifts , he indulges in no parade of orna- ment . A self - sustained ...
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... interest to indulge in an honest exultation at any signs of intellec- tual supremacy in one of our own countrymen . His talents and acquirements are so many arguments for republicanism . They are an answer to the libel , that , under ...
... interest to indulge in an honest exultation at any signs of intellec- tual supremacy in one of our own countrymen . His talents and acquirements are so many arguments for republicanism . They are an answer to the libel , that , under ...
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... Interest , deep and intense , filled every bosom . All were launched upon a pathless and an unexplored sea . The polar star had not yet risen . " The needle of Republican Destiny was quivering in the doubtful gale of Experiment . " The ...
... Interest , deep and intense , filled every bosom . All were launched upon a pathless and an unexplored sea . The polar star had not yet risen . " The needle of Republican Destiny was quivering in the doubtful gale of Experiment . " The ...
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