The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1853 - 112 pages |
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Page 15
... turned in the direction of his voice - and that deep , sudden , mysterious silence followed , which always attends fulness of emotion . From the sea of upturned faces before him , the orator beheld his thoughts reflected as from a ...
... turned in the direction of his voice - and that deep , sudden , mysterious silence followed , which always attends fulness of emotion . From the sea of upturned faces before him , the orator beheld his thoughts reflected as from a ...
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... turning one's own witness against him - in which Col. Hayne good humoredly joined . As the orator carried out the moral of ... turned his eye with a significance of expression , full of prophetic revelation upon the Vice - President ...
... turning one's own witness against him - in which Col. Hayne good humoredly joined . As the orator carried out the moral of ... turned his eye with a significance of expression , full of prophetic revelation upon the Vice - President ...
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... turned aside their heads , to conceal the evidences of their emotion . * In one corner of the gallery was clustered a group of Massachu- setts men . They had hung from the first moment upon the words of the speaker , with feelings ...
... turned aside their heads , to conceal the evidences of their emotion . * In one corner of the gallery was clustered a group of Massachu- setts men . They had hung from the first moment upon the words of the speaker , with feelings ...
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... turned to other topics . The good - natured yet provoking irony with which he described the imaginary though life - like scene of direct collision between the marshalled array of South Carolina under Gen. Hayne on the one side , and the ...
... turned to other topics . The good - natured yet provoking irony with which he described the imaginary though life - like scene of direct collision between the marshalled array of South Carolina under Gen. Hayne on the one side , and the ...
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... 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 , belligerent ! on a land rent with civil feuds ...
... 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 , belligerent ! on a land rent with civil feuds ...
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