Webster and His Master-pieces, Volume 2Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854 Vol. 1 comprises a biography of Daniel Webster; v. 2 consists of speeches and writings by Webster. |
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... possessed of all the fran- chises and immunities conferred by the charter . By the acts , nine other trustees and twenty - five overseers are admitted , against their will , to divide these franchises and immunities with them . If ...
... possessed of all the fran- chises and immunities conferred by the charter . By the acts , nine other trustees and twenty - five overseers are admitted , against their will , to divide these franchises and immunities with them . If ...
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... possess property . A late learned judge of this court has said , " When I say that a right is vested in a citizen , I mean that he has the power to do certain actions , or to possess certain things , according to the law of the land ...
... possess property . A late learned judge of this court has said , " When I say that a right is vested in a citizen , I mean that he has the power to do certain actions , or to possess certain things , according to the law of the land ...
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... possess property . The plaintiffs had a legal property in this charter ; and they had acquired property under it . The acts deprive them of both . They impair and take away the charter ; and they appropriate the property to new uses ...
... possess property . The plaintiffs had a legal property in this charter ; and they had acquired property under it . The acts deprive them of both . They impair and take away the charter ; and they appropriate the property to new uses ...
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... possess philosophy or experience sufficient to correct such evils in their own institutions , even if they had not been , by other causes , deprived of the power . An imme- diate necessity , connected with the support of life , was the ...
... possess philosophy or experience sufficient to correct such evils in their own institutions , even if they had not been , by other causes , deprived of the power . An imme- diate necessity , connected with the support of life , was the ...
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... possess a consid- erable amount of capital , or such as choose to adventure in com- mercial speculations without capital , can alone be fitted to be emigrants to the islands . The agriculture of these regions , as before observed , is a ...
... possess a consid- erable amount of capital , or such as choose to adventure in com- mercial speculations without capital , can alone be fitted to be emigrants to the islands . The agriculture of these regions , as before observed , is a ...
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Page 408 - 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 256 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 256 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
Page 479 - It has a preamble, and that preamble expressly recites, that the duties which it imposes are laid " for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures.
Page 202 - Resolved, That the Declaration, passed on the fourth, be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and style of ' THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ' ; and that the same, when engrossed be signed by every member of Congress.
Page 424 - Canada acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Page 249 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 204 - 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/ In July 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument.
Page 160 - We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.
Page 408 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over...