The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1853 - 112 pages |
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... of his character as a public man , gathered partly from the quarters we have indicated , and partly from original sources , will not be uninteresting to our readers : " It seems to have been universally conceded , since 5.
... of his character as a public man , gathered partly from the quarters we have indicated , and partly from original sources , will not be uninteresting to our readers : " It seems to have been universally conceded , since 5.
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... 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 necessary restraint- shall succeed to separate it from ...
... 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 necessary restraint- shall succeed to separate it from ...
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... original lustre , not a stripe erased nor polluted , not a single star obscured , bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as , " What is all this worth ? " Nor those other words of delusion and folly , Liberty first , and ...
... original lustre , not a stripe erased nor polluted , not a single star obscured , bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as , " What is all this worth ? " Nor those other words of delusion and folly , Liberty first , and ...
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... original , and separate the sentiment from the invention , we shall find that it is not eminently creative . In Mr. Webster's style , we always perceive that a presiding power of intellect regulates his use of terms . The amplitude of ...
... original , and separate the sentiment from the invention , we shall find that it is not eminently creative . In Mr. Webster's style , we always perceive that a presiding power of intellect regulates his use of terms . The amplitude of ...
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... original democrat , dyed in the wool ! Some of them have actually under- gone the operation , and they say it is quite easy . The only inconvenience it occa- ' sions , as they tell us , is a slight tendency of the blood to the head , a ...
... original democrat , dyed in the wool ! Some of them have actually under- gone the operation , and they say it is quite easy . The only inconvenience it occa- ' sions , as they tell us , is a slight tendency of the blood to the head , a ...
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