The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel WebsterW.M. Hayward & Company, 1854 - 221 pages |
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... look at him - for the lesson is not unworthy of heedful consideration . He was a mere private individual ; the son of a poor , struggling New Hampshire farmer ; who rose to the highest in the state ( for the PRESIDENT himself was not ...
... look at him - for the lesson is not unworthy of heedful consideration . He was a mere private individual ; the son of a poor , struggling New Hampshire farmer ; who rose to the highest in the state ( for the PRESIDENT himself was not ...
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... visit them , his oxen , lowing , came to see their sick lord , and as he stood in his door , his great cattle were driven up , that he might smell their healthy breath , and look his last on those broad , generous faces 7.
... visit them , his oxen , lowing , came to see their sick lord , and as he stood in his door , his great cattle were driven up , that he might smell their healthy breath , and look his last on those broad , generous faces 7.
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Daniel Webster. and look his last on those broad , generous faces , that were never false to him . He was a friendly man : all along the shore there were plain men that loved him - whom he also loved ; a good neighbor , a good townsman ...
Daniel Webster. and look his last on those broad , generous faces , that were never false to him . He was a friendly man : all along the shore there were plain men that loved him - whom he also loved ; a good neighbor , a good townsman ...
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... look assured him of his audience's entire sympathy . If among his hearers there were those who affected at first an indifference to his glowing thoughts and fervent periods , the difficult mask was soon laid aside , and profound ...
... look assured him of his audience's entire sympathy . If among his hearers there were those who affected at first an indifference to his glowing thoughts and fervent periods , the difficult mask was soon laid aside , and profound ...
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... look ! lo , If I stand here , I saw him ! ' THEIR eyeballs were seared ( was it not so , sir ? ) who had thought to shield themselves , by concealing their own hand , and laying the imputation of the crime on a low and hireling agency ...
... look ! lo , If I stand here , I saw him ! ' THEIR eyeballs were seared ( was it not so , sir ? ) who had thought to shield themselves , by concealing their own hand , and laying the imputation of the crime on a low and hireling agency ...
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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.