Obituary Addresses on the Occasion of the Death of the Hon. Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts, Secretary of State for the United States: Delivered in the Senate and in the House of Representatives of the United States, Fourteenth and Fifteenth December, 1852R. Armstrong, 1853 - 86 страница |
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... light for the guidance and instruction of an admiring posterity . Rivals they were on a great and eventful theatre of political life ; but death has given them a com- mon fame . Eadem arena , Communis virtus , atque perennis decus ...
... light for the guidance and instruction of an admiring posterity . Rivals they were on a great and eventful theatre of political life ; but death has given them a com- mon fame . Eadem arena , Communis virtus , atque perennis decus ...
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... light has been withdrawn . " But he was ours . And may that word of pride Drown , with its lofty tone , pain's bitter cry ! " I have no intention of undertaking here to mea- sure his labors or interpret his ideas ; but I feel tempted to ...
... light has been withdrawn . " But he was ours . And may that word of pride Drown , with its lofty tone , pain's bitter cry ! " I have no intention of undertaking here to mea- sure his labors or interpret his ideas ; but I feel tempted to ...
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... light , blazing on all its ample folds , as they float over the sea and over the land , and in every wind under the whole heavens , that other sentiment , dear to every American heart , ' Liberty and union , now and for ever , one and ...
... light , blazing on all its ample folds , as they float over the sea and over the land , and in every wind under the whole heavens , that other sentiment , dear to every American heart , ' Liberty and union , now and for ever , one and ...
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... lights of heaven go out before the rising storm , he does not ask what has become of those lights , or whether they shall renew their lustre ; , but his in- quiry is , what is to become of me , and how am I to guide my bark in ... light 46.
... lights of heaven go out before the rising storm , he does not ask what has become of those lights , or whether they shall renew their lustre ; , but his in- quiry is , what is to become of me , and how am I to guide my bark in ... light 46.
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... light , with power to enkindle the common mass of human mind ; so that when it glimmers in its own decay , and finally goes out in death , no night follows , but it leaves the world all light , all on fire , from the potent contact of ...
... light , with power to enkindle the common mass of human mind ; so that when it glimmers in its own decay , and finally goes out in death , no night follows , but it leaves the world all light , all on fire , from the potent contact of ...
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Страница 45 - ... may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured,...
Страница 45 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Страница 42 - 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.
Страница 45 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Страница 40 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Страница 48 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Страница 40 - Mr. Chief Justice, one may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die as a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality ; to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations, the relation between the creature and his Creator. Here it is that fame and renown cannot assist us; that all external things must fail to aid us ; that even friends, affection, and human love and devotedness, cannot succor us.
Страница 13 - With more than mortal powers endow'd. How high they soar'd above the crowd ! Theirs was no common party race, Jostling by dark intrigue for place; Like fabled Gods, their mighty war Shook realms and nations in its jar...
Страница 16 - O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Страница 41 - Simonton announced that the government officials would wear crape on the left arm for the space of thirty days, and that all our citizens were requested to do the same.