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... question comes , Which qualities shall prevail in the character and in the institutions of America , the noble , or the mean and selfish ? Shall America govern herself by the eternal laws , as they are discerned through the conscience ...
... question comes , Which qualities shall prevail in the character and in the institutions of America , the noble , or the mean and selfish ? Shall America govern herself by the eternal laws , as they are discerned through the conscience ...
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... questions of law of nations , in 1827 ; next in matters of criminal law in 1830 ; then of constitutional law in 1832 ; then in relation to the North - eastern boundary in 1838 ; in mat- ters of international law again , in his ...
... questions of law of nations , in 1827 ; next in matters of criminal law in 1830 ; then of constitutional law in 1832 ; then in relation to the North - eastern boundary in 1838 ; in mat- ters of international law again , in his ...
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... question ; " but voted against thanking Commodore Perry for his gallant conduct , against the purchase of Mr Jefferson's library , against naval sup- plies , direct taxes , and internal duties . He opposed the government scheme of a ...
... question ; " but voted against thanking Commodore Perry for his gallant conduct , against the purchase of Mr Jefferson's library , against naval sup- plies , direct taxes , and internal duties . He opposed the government scheme of a ...
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... question , like others , had then become a party question ; and a horse in the party - team must go on with his fellows , or be flayed by the driver's lash . But though his labours were not followed by any very marked influence at ...
... question , like others , had then become a party question ; and a horse in the party - team must go on with his fellows , or be flayed by the driver's lash . But though his labours were not followed by any very marked influence at ...
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... question came before the nation , -Shall slavery be extended into the Missouri territory ? Here , too , Mr Webster was on the side of freedom.§ He was one of a committee appointed by a meeting of the citizens of Boston to call a general ...
... question came before the nation , -Shall slavery be extended into the Missouri territory ? Here , too , Mr Webster was on the side of freedom.§ He was one of a committee appointed by a meeting of the citizens of Boston to call a general ...
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Page 106 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 231 - There is what I call the American idea. . . . This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people...
Page 99 - Scorn ! would the angels laugh, to mark A bright soul driven, Fiend-goaded, down the endless dark, From hope and heaven! Let not the land once proud of him Insult him now, Nor brand with deeper shame his dim, Dishonored brow.
Page 69 - By general instruction, we seek, as far as possible, to purify the whole moral atmosphere ; to keep good sentiments uppermost, and to turn the strong current of feeling and opinion, as well as the censures of the law and the denunciations of religion, against immorality and crime.
Page 146 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 263 - Give to the winds thy fears ; Hope, and be undismayed; God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears, God shall lift up thy head. Through waves and clouds and storms He gently clears thy way; Wait thou His time, so shall this night Soon end in joyous day.
Page 341 - ... the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation ; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb : and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Page 146 - Apollo still thy long, long summer gilds, Still in his beam Mendeli's marbles glare; Art, Glory, Freedom fail, but Nature still is fair.
Page 81 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 35 - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be, OUR COUNTRY, OUR WHOLE COUNTRY, AND NOTHING BUT OUR COUNTRY. And, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of Wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever ! THE COMPLETION OF THE BUNKER HILL MONUMENT.