The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1853 - 112 pages |
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Page 13
... spirits rose with the occasion . He awaited the time of onset with a stern and impatient joy . He felt , like the war - horse of the Scriptures , who " paweth in the valley , and rejoiceth in his strength : who goeth on to meet the ...
... spirits rose with the occasion . He awaited the time of onset with a stern and impatient joy . He felt , like the war - horse of the Scriptures , who " paweth in the valley , and rejoiceth in his strength : who goeth on to meet the ...
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... spirit would not down . The honorable gentleman is fresh in his reading of the English classics , and can put me right if I am wrong ; but , according to my poor recollection , it was at those who had begun with caresses , and ended ...
... spirit would not down . The honorable gentleman is fresh in his reading of the English classics , and can put me right if I am wrong ; but , according to my poor recollection , it was at those who had begun with caresses , and ended ...
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... 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 that Union ...
... 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 that Union ...
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... spirit even buoyed up and animated those who surrounded him in his last moments . He recognized his own condition in the same spirit of philosophic and self - sustaining contemplation . He looked steadfastly in the face of the grim ...
... spirit even buoyed up and animated those who surrounded him in his last moments . He recognized his own condition in the same spirit of philosophic and self - sustaining contemplation . He looked steadfastly in the face of the grim ...
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... spirits . As the sun rose on that quiet Sabbath morning the expected , yet dreaded , event was announced as a public calamity , first , by the solemn discharge of minute guns , and afterwards by the tolling of bells , over a large part ...
... spirits . As the sun rose on that quiet Sabbath morning the expected , yet dreaded , event was announced as a public calamity , first , by the solemn discharge of minute guns , and afterwards by the tolling of bells , over a large part ...
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