 | Henry Brown - Illinois - 1844 - 526 pages
...then direct our energies thither. " When the mariner has been tossed for many days in foul weather, on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of...ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his course. Let us imitate this prudence, and before we float any farther, refer to the point from which... | |
 | Charles Wainwright March - Lawyers - 1850 - 318 pages
...resolution. Mr. "Webster rose and addressed the Senate. His exordium is known by heart, everywhere : " Mr. President, when the mariner has been tossed, for...latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have diiven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence ; and before we float further, on the... | |
 | Charles Wainwright March - Lawyers - 1850 - 320 pages
...resolution. Mr. Webster rose and addressed the Senate. His exordium is known by heart, everywhere : " Mr. President, when the mariner has been tossed, for...many days, in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, ho naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...readers. LESSON CXXXIV. Extract from, a Speech in the United States Senate. — DANIEL WEBSTER. 1. MR. PRESIDENT, — When the mariner has been tossed,...avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the * Moderate. earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1853 - 420 pages
...volumes of sarcasm and reproof are contained in that brief exordium ! "Mr President," he commenced, "when the mariner has been tossed, for many days,...earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, anil ascertain how far the elements have driven him from bis true course. Let us imitate this prudence... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 pages
...resolution. " Mr. Webster rose and addressed the Senate. His exordium is known by heart everywhere : " Mr. President, when the mariner has been tossed, for...days, in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he t naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take... | |
 | American essays - 1871 - 798 pages
...to reply to Mr. Hayne of South Carolina, in what is still remembered as the great debate of 1830, " when the mariner has been tossed for many days in...himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glimpse of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him out of... | |
 | History - 1857 - 642 pages
...twenty-sixth of January, 1880, following Mr. Ilayne in the debate, Mr. Webster spoke as follows : * — 3j think weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm,... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Logic - 1858 - 300 pages
...second speech, with just such a master-effort to come back to the true merits of the controversy : — "Mr. President, — When the mariner has been tossed...many days in thick weather and on an unknown sea, lie naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take... | |
 | Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 712 pages
...January, 1880, following Mr. Hayne in the debate, Mr. Webster spoke as follows : * — ME. PBESIDENT, — When the mariner has been tossed for many days, in...how far the elements have driven him from his true coarse. Let us imitate this prudence, and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer... | |
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When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him... 
