The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1853 - 112 pages |
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... knowledge , but I can do something for you . Exert yourself - improve your opportunities- learn - learn - and when I am gone , you will not need to go through the hardships which I have undergone , and which have made me an old man ...
... knowledge , but I can do something for you . Exert yourself - improve your opportunities- learn - learn - and when I am gone , you will not need to go through the hardships which I have undergone , and which have made me an old man ...
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... knowledge ; ' Indeed , ' he jocosely remarked , ' you should write down the orders , and get old W— to beat them into your sconce , as I saw him this morning , with a paper in his hand , teaching something to young Min the court house ...
... knowledge ; ' Indeed , ' he jocosely remarked , ' you should write down the orders , and get old W— to beat them into your sconce , as I saw him this morning , with a paper in his hand , teaching something to young Min the court house ...
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... knowledge . The speaker descends to no rhetorial tricks and shifts , he indulges in no parade of orna- ment . A self - sustained intellectual might is impressed on every page . He rarely confounds the processes of reason and imagina ...
... knowledge . The speaker descends to no rhetorial tricks and shifts , he indulges in no parade of orna- ment . A self - sustained intellectual might is impressed on every page . He rarely confounds the processes of reason and imagina ...
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... knowledge and respect of the American people . Webster's intellect resembled the glory of noontide sun - his profound reason would admit of no successful answer . Equally at home , at the Bur , or in Congressional Halls , he has won ...
... knowledge and respect of the American people . Webster's intellect resembled the glory of noontide sun - his profound reason would admit of no successful answer . Equally at home , at the Bur , or in Congressional Halls , he has won ...
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... knowledge among the people , who have a right , from the frame of their nature , to knowledge , as their great Creator , who does nothing in vain , has given them understandings , and a desire to know ; but besides this , they have a ...
... knowledge among the people , who have a right , from the frame of their nature , to knowledge , as their great Creator , who does nothing in vain , has given them understandings , and a desire to know ; but besides this , they have a ...
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