The Works of Daniel Webster, Том 2Little, Brown, 1869 |
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... look well at the Constitution , weigh all the precedents , and if names and authority are to be appealed to , contrast those of President Van Buren with those of the dead patriarch whose words I have just read to you , and decide ...
... look well at the Constitution , weigh all the precedents , and if names and authority are to be appealed to , contrast those of President Van Buren with those of the dead patriarch whose words I have just read to you , and decide ...
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... look upon the treasury as a department of the government , recognized by the Constitution , which declares that no money shall be drawn from the treasury , but in consequence of appro- priations made by law . It may , however , be made ...
... look upon the treasury as a department of the government , recognized by the Constitution , which declares that no money shall be drawn from the treasury , but in consequence of appro- priations made by law . It may , however , be made ...
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... look for the security of the public treasure . What would be thought in private life , if some rich merchant , John Jacob Astor , for instance , should determine no longer to trust his money with banks and bank directors , who ...
... look for the security of the public treasure . What would be thought in private life , if some rich merchant , John Jacob Astor , for instance , should determine no longer to trust his money with banks and bank directors , who ...
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... look a little more nearly at this matter , and see whom , in truth , it does favor . Who are the rich in this country ? There is very little hereditary wealth among us ; and large capi- talists are not numerous . But some there are ...
... look a little more nearly at this matter , and see whom , in truth , it does favor . Who are the rich in this country ? There is very little hereditary wealth among us ; and large capi- talists are not numerous . But some there are ...
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... Look at the different departments of industry , whether agricul tural , manufacturing , or mechanical , and you will find that , in almost all , the laborers mix up some little capital with the work of their hands . The laborer of the ...
... Look at the different departments of industry , whether agricul tural , manufacturing , or mechanical , and you will find that , in almost all , the laborers mix up some little capital with the work of their hands . The laborer of the ...
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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.