The Works of Daniel Webster, Том 2Little, Brown, 1869 |
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... happy instance of self - possession , it is worth recording . The platform , which was of rough boards elevated some seven or eight feet from the ground , on which the speaker , the chairman , and the official and distinguished persons ...
... happy instance of self - possession , it is worth recording . The platform , which was of rough boards elevated some seven or eight feet from the ground , on which the speaker , the chairman , and the official and distinguished persons ...
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... happy state of things which the judicious policy of the administration is alleged to have brought about ! Judged by the tone of these papers , every present movement of the people is quite unreasonable , and all attempts at change are ...
... happy state of things which the judicious policy of the administration is alleged to have brought about ! Judged by the tone of these papers , every present movement of the people is quite unreasonable , and all attempts at change are ...
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... happy he is to hear that such is the fact . The State comes to the vote , and two thirds of the people of the State are found to be against him ; yet still he clasps to his breast , with exultation , the " entire Democracy of Kentucky ...
... happy he is to hear that such is the fact . The State comes to the vote , and two thirds of the people of the State are found to be against him ; yet still he clasps to his breast , with exultation , the " entire Democracy of Kentucky ...
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... happy republican institutions ? Who shall spread fatal dissensions among us ? Are we not together under one common government , to obtain which the blood of your fathers and of mine was poured out together in the same hard - fought ...
... happy republican institutions ? Who shall spread fatal dissensions among us ? Are we not together under one common government , to obtain which the blood of your fathers and of mine was poured out together in the same hard - fought ...
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... happy event . " We are aware , Sir , that this treaty is not yet completed , but that an important act is yet necessary for its accomplishment . We antici- pate no such result , and yet it may be that still further work is ne- cessary ...
... happy event . " We are aware , Sir , that this treaty is not yet completed , but that an important act is yet necessary for its accomplishment . We antici- pate no such result , and yet it may be that still further work is ne- cessary ...
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Страница 510 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Страница 510 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Страница 602 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No; Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Страница 522 - Faith, &,c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Страница 437 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Страница 618 - Let it rise ! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Страница 224 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...
Страница 225 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Страница 605 - American people, and attracting more and more the admiration of the world. And all here assembled, whether belonging to public life or to private life, with hearts devoutly thankful to Almighty God for the preservation of the liberty and happiness of the country, unite in sincere and fervent prayers that this deposit, and the walls and arches, the domes and towers, the columns and entablatures, now to be erected over it, may endure forever! "GOD SAVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA! "DANIEL WEBSTER,...
Страница 200 - No instance has heretofore occurred, nor can any instance be expected hereafter to occur, in which the unadulterated forms of republican government can pretend to so fair an opportunity of justifying themselves by their fruits. In this view, the citizens of the United States are responsible for the greatest trust ever confided to a political society.