The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 - Legislators |
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Page 98
... citizens of the United States are responsible for the greatest trust ever confided to a political society . If ... citizen . It is the same which John Quincy Adams gave to the Congress of the United States , in his oration on the death ...
... citizens of the United States are responsible for the greatest trust ever confided to a political society . If ... citizen . It is the same which John Quincy Adams gave to the Congress of the United States , in his oration on the death ...
Page 101
... citizen . In every state of this progress he was content . He was content to be president , minister , representative , citizen . or Stricken in the midst of this service , in the very act of rising to debate , he fell into the arms of ...
... citizen . In every state of this progress he was content . He was content to be president , minister , representative , citizen . or Stricken in the midst of this service , in the very act of rising to debate , he fell into the arms of ...
Page 103
... citizen , but an exile and a prisoner , on a lonely island , in the midst of the wild Atlantic . Discontent attended him ... citizens ! The contrast suggests its own impres- sive moral . HENRY CLAY . FIFTY years ago , HENRY CLAY , JOHN ...
... citizen , but an exile and a prisoner , on a lonely island , in the midst of the wild Atlantic . Discontent attended him ... citizens ! The contrast suggests its own impres- sive moral . HENRY CLAY . FIFTY years ago , HENRY CLAY , JOHN ...
Page 115
... citizens . Tried by ancient definitions , Daniel Webster was not an orator . He studied no art , and practised no action . Nor did he form himself by any admitted model . He had neither the directness and vehemence of Demosthenes , nor ...
... citizens . Tried by ancient definitions , Daniel Webster was not an orator . He studied no art , and practised no action . Nor did he form himself by any admitted model . He had neither the directness and vehemence of Demosthenes , nor ...
Page 129
... citizens , with their private funds , to make other thoroughfares to compete with it in accom- modating the public . So , also , a portion of our citizens have op- posed the construction of the New York and Erie railroad , through the ...
... citizens , with their private funds , to make other thoroughfares to compete with it in accom- modating the public . So , also , a portion of our citizens have op- posed the construction of the New York and Erie railroad , through the ...
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