The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1853 - 112 pages |
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... live but for my children ; I could not give your elder brother the advantages of 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 ...
... live but for my children ; I could not give your elder brother the advantages of 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 ...
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... lives , in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit . If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness - if uneasiness under salutary and ...
... lives , in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit . If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness - if uneasiness under salutary and ...
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Daniel Webster. to close . His life did not end as the lives of most end , with thoughts of self merely , or struggles to forget self . He recognized the condition of those friends he was about to leave behind him , with a singular ...
Daniel Webster. to close . His life did not end as the lives of most end , with thoughts of self merely , or struggles to forget self . He recognized the condition of those friends he was about to leave behind him , with a singular ...
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... live . " These were his last coherent and intelligible words . At twenty - three minutes before three o'clock , without a struggle or a groan , all signs of life ceased to be visible ; his vital organs giving away at last so slowly and ...
... live . " These were his last coherent and intelligible words . At twenty - three minutes before three o'clock , without a struggle or a groan , all signs of life ceased to be visible ; his vital organs giving away at last so slowly and ...
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... Live like patriots ! Live like Americans ! United all , united now , and united forever . Wherever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty , its aspirations shall be to claim kindred with ...
... Live like patriots ! Live like Americans ! United all , united now , and united forever . Wherever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty , its aspirations shall be to claim kindred with ...
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