The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1869 |
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... Pennsylvania , at Valley Forge , on the 3d of October , 1844 . 275 MR . JUSTICE STORY 295 Remarks made at a Meeting of the Members of the Suffolk Bar , held on the 12th of September , 1845 , in the Circuit Court Room , in Boston , on ...
... Pennsylvania , at Valley Forge , on the 3d of October , 1844 . 275 MR . JUSTICE STORY 295 Remarks made at a Meeting of the Members of the Suffolk Bar , held on the 12th of September , 1845 , in the Circuit Court Room , in Boston , on ...
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... Pennsylvania , and with the West , and East , and South , and you have a direct interest that their currency too shall be sound ; for otherwise the very superiority of yours is , to a certain degree , an injury and loss to you , since ...
... Pennsylvania , and with the West , and East , and South , and you have a direct interest that their currency too shall be sound ; for otherwise the very superiority of yours is , to a certain degree , an injury and loss to you , since ...
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... Pennsylvania , who has been made to bear a large share of the responsibility of suggesting such a policy . If I mistake not , the same idea is thrown out in the President's message at the com- mencement of the last session , and in the ...
... Pennsylvania , who has been made to bear a large share of the responsibility of suggesting such a policy . If I mistake not , the same idea is thrown out in the President's message at the com- mencement of the last session , and in the ...
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... Pennsylvania , or of New Eng- land say to the idea of walking on Sunday to church , at the head of his family , in his jacket two years old ? What will the young man say , when , his work ended , he desires to visit the families of his ...
... Pennsylvania , or of New Eng- land say to the idea of walking on Sunday to church , at the head of his family , in his jacket two years old ? What will the young man say , when , his work ended , he desires to visit the families of his ...
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... Pennsylvania east , New Jersey , New York , and the whole of New England , with the solitary exception , probably , of New Hampshire , I say , I have not a doubt that the whole of this part of the coun- try is in favor of the election ...
... Pennsylvania east , New Jersey , New York , and the whole of New England , with the solitary exception , probably , of New Hampshire , I say , I have not a doubt that the whole of this part of the coun- try is in favor of the election ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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,...
Page 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.