Mr. Webster's Address at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Addition to the Capitol: July 4th, 1851Gideon and Company, printers, 1851 - 29 страница |
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... Men who their duties know , But know their rights , and knowing , dare maintain ; Prevent the long - aim❜d blow , And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State ; And SOVEREIGN LAW , that State's collected ...
... Men who their duties know , But know their rights , and knowing , dare maintain ; Prevent the long - aim❜d blow , And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State ; And SOVEREIGN LAW , that State's collected ...
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Страница 4 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Страница 4 - 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 10 - 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 10 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Страница 13 - ... 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, "Secretary of State...
Страница 10 - Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts 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...
Страница 23 - ... of people, and there will be found within the United States more persons who do habitually read and write than can be embraced within the lines of your demarcation.
Страница 26 - We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. 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 26 - Houdon, now in the capitol of Virginia. He is dignified and grave ; but concern and anxiety seem to soften the lineaments of his countenance. The government over which he presides is yet in the crisis of experiment. Not free from troubles at home, he sees the world in commotion and arms, all around him. He sees that imposing foreign powers are half disposed to try the strength of the recently established American government.
Страница 9 - ... because they have learned this one ' great lesson, that there is no security without law, and that, ' under the circumstances in which they are placed, where there ' is no military authority to cut their throats, there is no sovereign 'will but the will of the majority; that, therefore, if they remain, ' they must submit to that will.