From Farm Boy to Senator: Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel WebsterJ.S. Ogilvie, no. 31 Rose Street, 1882 - 310 pages |
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... able to form some idea of his great oratorical powers and the themes which called them forth ; but I have found that young classical students , as a rule , know more of Cicero's life than of his . It seems to me eminently fitting that ...
... able to form some idea of his great oratorical powers and the themes which called them forth ; but I have found that young classical students , as a rule , know more of Cicero's life than of his . It seems to me eminently fitting that ...
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... able to teach him . Sometimes he had two and a half and three miles to walk to school , but the farmer's boy , though delicate , was not thought too delicate for such a walk . Indeed the boy's delicacy was in his favor , for he was ...
... able to teach him . Sometimes he had two and a half and three miles to walk to school , but the farmer's boy , though delicate , was not thought too delicate for such a walk . Indeed the boy's delicacy was in his favor , for he was ...
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... able prowess , a champion whose fame was in all the farmyards for miles around . One day Dan- iel , coming home from school , beheld with mor- tification the finish of a contest in which a favorite fowl of his own came off decidedly ...
... able prowess , a champion whose fame was in all the farmyards for miles around . One day Dan- iel , coming home from school , beheld with mor- tification the finish of a contest in which a favorite fowl of his own came off decidedly ...
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... able to enlarge his reading and culture . Among the books which it con- tained was an English translation of Don Quix- ote , and this seems to have had a powerful fascination for the boy . " I began to read it , " he says in his ...
... able to enlarge his reading and culture . Among the books which it con- tained was an English translation of Don Quix- ote , and this seems to have had a powerful fascination for the boy . " I began to read it , " he says in his ...
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... able to make happy and striking quotations from authors he had not read since his college life . It is quite certain that Daniel at this time had no path marked out for his future life , yet he probably could not have made a more ...
... able to make happy and striking quotations from authors he had not read since his college life . It is quite certain that Daniel at this time had no path marked out for his future life , yet he probably could not have made a more ...
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Page 255 - 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.
Page 201 - ... country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown, The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...
Page 243 - We have thus heard, sir, what the resolution is, which is actually before us for consideration ; and it will readily occur to every one that it is almost the only subject about which something has not been said in the speech, running through two days, by which the Senate has been now entertained by the gentleman from South Carolina.
Page 247 - Americans all, whose fame is no more to be hemmed in by state lines, than their talents and patriotism were capable of being circumscribed within the same narrow limits. In their day and generation, they served and .honored the country, and the whole country ; and their renown is of the treasures of the whole country. Him whose honored name the gentleman himself bears — does he esteem me less capable of gratitude for his patriotism, or sympathy for his sufferings, than if his eyes had first opened...
Page 204 - Fortunate, fortunate man ! with what measure of devotion will you not thank God for the circumstances of your extraordinary life ! You are connected with both hemispheres and with two generations. Heaven saw fit to ordain, that the electric spark of Liberty should be conducted, through you, from the new world to the old...
Page 203 - CENTURY! when in your youthful days you put every thing at hazard in your country's cause, good as that cause was, and sanguine as youth is, still your fondest hopes did not stretch onward to an hour like this! At a period to which you could not...
Page 197 - Advance, then, ye future generations ! "We would hail you, as you rise in your long succession, to fill the places which we now fill, and to taste the blessings of existence where we are passing, and soon shall have passed, our own human duration. We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of the fathers.
Page 292 - Secession ! Peaceable secession ! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion! The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep without ruffling the surface ! Who is so foolish, I beg everybody's pardon, as to expect to see any such thing?
Page 255 - What is all this worth? nor those other words of delusion and folly, 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!
Page 215 - This lovely land, this glorious liberty, these benign institutions, the dear purchase of our fathers, are ours ; ours to enjoy, ours to preserve, ours to transmit. Generations past and generations to come hold us responsible for this sacred trust.