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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... lawyer , Mr. Thomas W. Thompson , came to Daniel's native town and set up an office . As he was obliged to be absent at times , and yet did not wish to close his office , he proposed to Daniel to sit in his office and receive callers in ...
... lawyer , Mr. Thomas W. Thompson , came to Daniel's native town and set up an office . As he was obliged to be absent at times , and yet did not wish to close his office , he proposed to Daniel to sit in his office and receive callers in ...
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... lawyer had probably used himself in his preparatory course . This book Daniel selected , and began to study by himself . His employer offered to hear him recite in it , and soon had occasion to be surprised at the strong and retentive ...
... lawyer had probably used himself in his preparatory course . This book Daniel selected , and began to study by himself . His employer offered to hear him recite in it , and soon had occasion to be surprised at the strong and retentive ...
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... lawyer in Salisbury ; he laughed very heartily when he saw me . So , ' said he , ' your farming is over , is it ? " " It will occur to my readers that , as Judge Webster was struggling so earnestly to give Dan an education , it would ...
... lawyer in Salisbury ; he laughed very heartily when he saw me . So , ' said he , ' your farming is over , is it ? " " It will occur to my readers that , as Judge Webster was struggling so earnestly to give Dan an education , it would ...
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... lawyers . As for bein ' a minister I would never think of doin ' that ; they never get paid anything . Doctorin ' is ... lawyer , I would never propose that to anybody . Now , " said he , “ Daniel , I'll tell you what ! You are a boy of ...
... lawyers . As for bein ' a minister I would never think of doin ' that ; they never get paid anything . Doctorin ' is ... lawyer , I would never propose that to anybody . Now , " said he , “ Daniel , I'll tell you what ! You are a boy of ...
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... lawyer , and the defender of the Constitution , we had Daniel Webster , the famous conjurer , it would be a ludicrous transformation . There are few persons who do not consider themselves qualified to give advice , but when my young ...
... lawyer , and the defender of the Constitution , we had Daniel Webster , the famous conjurer , it would be a ludicrous transformation . There are few persons who do not consider themselves qualified to give advice , but when my young ...
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Page 251 - 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 197 - ... 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 239 - 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 243 - 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 200 - 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 199 - 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 193 - 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 288 - 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 251 - 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 211 - 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.