The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1853 - 112 pages |
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... solemn , cavernous eyes , under the pent - house of the overhanging brows , the firm , compressed lips , and broad chest - all these can never be forgotten . speeches ever made in any public body by any statesman 9 .
... solemn , cavernous eyes , under the pent - house of the overhanging brows , the firm , compressed lips , and broad chest - all these can never be forgotten . speeches ever made in any public body by any statesman 9 .
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... solemn significance : " When my eyes shall be turned to behold , for the last time , the sun in heaven , may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered , discordant ...
... solemn significance : " When my eyes shall be turned to behold , for the last time , the sun in heaven , may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered , discordant ...
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... solemn and remarkable words , by which it is plain that , having given the deliberate testimony of his life to the truth of Christianity , as a miraculous revelation of God's will to man he desired , though dead , still to bear the same ...
... solemn and remarkable words , by which it is plain that , having given the deliberate testimony of his life to the truth of Christianity , as a miraculous revelation of God's will to man he desired , though dead , still to bear the same ...
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... solemn and religious parting , in which , while all around him were overwhelmed with sorrow , he preserved his accustomed equanimity , speaking to each words of appropriate kindness and consolation which they will treasure hereafter ...
... solemn and religious parting , in which , while all around him were overwhelmed with sorrow , he preserved his accustomed equanimity , speaking to each words of appropriate kindness and consolation which they will treasure hereafter ...
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... solemn discharge of minute guns , and afterwards by the tolling of bells , over a large part of the land - a spontaneous outbreak of the general feeling at the loss all had suffered . How heavily it fell on the hearts of men in this ...
... solemn discharge of minute guns , and afterwards by the tolling of bells , over a large part of the land - a spontaneous outbreak of the general feeling at the loss all had suffered . How heavily it fell on the hearts of men in this ...
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