The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1854 - 221 pages |
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... Legislature of Massachusetts . In the same year he delivered his Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson . " " " Mr. Webster's Great Speech , ' as it is deservedly called - great , both for its intrinsic qualities and for its effects upon the ...
... Legislature of Massachusetts . In the same year he delivered his Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson . " " " Mr. Webster's Great Speech , ' as it is deservedly called - great , both for its intrinsic qualities and for its effects upon the ...
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... Legislature , his time and talents were alike devoted to the cause . In the years 1773 and 1774 he was chosen a counsellor , by the members of the General Court , but rejected by Governor Hutchinson , in the former of those years , and ...
... Legislature , his time and talents were alike devoted to the cause . In the years 1773 and 1774 he was chosen a counsellor , by the members of the General Court , but rejected by Governor Hutchinson , in the former of those years , and ...
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... Legislature , in which he had no sooner appeared than he distinguished himself , by knowledge capacity , and promp- titude . Mr. Jefferson appears to have been imbued with an early love of letters and science , and to have cherished a ...
... Legislature , in which he had no sooner appeared than he distinguished himself , by knowledge capacity , and promp- titude . Mr. Jefferson appears to have been imbued with an early love of letters and science , and to have cherished a ...
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... legislature . The tie , therefore , which our Revolution was to to break did not subsist between us and the British Parliament , or be- tween us and the British Government in the aggregate , but directly between us and the king himself ...
... legislature . The tie , therefore , which our Revolution was to to break did not subsist between us and the British Parliament , or be- tween us and the British Government in the aggregate , but directly between us and the king himself ...
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... legislature of Virginia , and the co - operation of other able and zealous friends , he lived to see it accomplished . May all success attend this infant seminary ; and may those who enjoy its advantages , as often as their eyes shall ...
... legislature of Virginia , and the co - operation of other able and zealous friends , he lived to see it accomplished . May all success attend this infant seminary ; and may those who enjoy its advantages , as often as their eyes shall ...
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Page 216 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent, on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 24 - 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 80 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 84 - 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.
Page 216 - It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences these great interests immediately awoke as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life.
Page 84 - Words and phrases may be marshalled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
Page 11 - He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet...
Page 19 - ... 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, if fall it must, amidst the proudest...
Page 79 - I must declare and avow, that in all my reading and observation — and it has been my favorite study — I have read Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 86 - ... If we fail, it can be no worse for us. But we shall not fail. The cause will raise up armies; the cause will create navies. The people, the people, if we are true to them, will carry us, and will carry themselves, gloriously, through this struggle. I care not how fickle other people have been found. I know the people of these colonies; and I know, that resistance to British aggression is deep and settled in their hearts, and cannot be eradicated.