The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, with a Critical Essay on His Genius and WritingsJ. and H.G. Langley, 1839 - 95 pages |
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... all ages yet to come .. To pursue the metaphor . The wri . tings and productions of Webster appear to us to res semble a massive structure , calculated , by the strength Essay on the Genius and Writings of Mr Webster, ·
... all ages yet to come .. To pursue the metaphor . The wri . tings and productions of Webster appear to us to res semble a massive structure , calculated , by the strength Essay on the Genius and Writings of Mr Webster, ·
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... strength of itsmaterials , to resist the winter blast or the howling storm ; and although years may pass over , leaving the moss on its battlements , and the stamp of time upon its walls , it still exists . There are associations too ...
... strength of itsmaterials , to resist the winter blast or the howling storm ; and although years may pass over , leaving the moss on its battlements , and the stamp of time upon its walls , it still exists . There are associations too ...
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... strength . ens , exhilarates and influences , till it becomes a neces- sary element of its existence . If we regard the pecu- liarities of Mr. Webster as a statesman , we shall find him distinguished by a far - sightedness , a power of ...
... strength . ens , exhilarates and influences , till it becomes a neces- sary element of its existence . If we regard the pecu- liarities of Mr. Webster as a statesman , we shall find him distinguished by a far - sightedness , a power of ...
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... strength- ened , secured , improved in their symmetry , and deepened in their foundation , by those great men of our own country , whose names will be as familiar to future times as if they were written on the arch of the sky ...
... strength- ened , secured , improved in their symmetry , and deepened in their foundation , by those great men of our own country , whose names will be as familiar to future times as if they were written on the arch of the sky ...
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... strength of its manhood , and full of its original spirit . If discord and disunion shall wound it ; if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it ; if folly and madness , if uneasiness under salutary and necessary ...
... strength of its manhood , and full of its original spirit . If discord and disunion shall wound it ; if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it ; if folly and madness , if uneasiness under salutary and necessary ...
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Page 91 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 26 - And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit.
Page 45 - He has allowed you to behold and to partake the reward of your patriotic toils; and he has allowed us, your sons and countrymen, to meet you here, and in the name of the present generation, in the name of your country, in the name of liberty, to thank you!
Page 66 - Ah! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it and say it is safe.
Page 56 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.
Page 57 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action/ In July 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument.
Page 26 - If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary restraint — shall succeed to separate it from that union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked: it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last,...
Page 22 - It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration.
Page 64 - England society, let him not give it the grim visage of Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge, the face black with settled hate, and the blood-shot eye emitting livid fires of malice.
Page 25 - Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history: the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill — and there they will remain forever.