The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster: With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English StyleLittle, Brown, & Company, 1879 - 707 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 83
Page xxxi
... true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled , it will burn . Human agency cannot extinguish it . Like the earth's central fire , it may be smothered for a time ; the ocean may overwhelm it ; mountains may press it down ; but ...
... true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled , it will burn . Human agency cannot extinguish it . Like the earth's central fire , it may be smothered for a time ; the ocean may overwhelm it ; mountains may press it down ; but ...
Page 44
... true basis , most certainly , of a popular gov- ernment . " If the people , " says Har- rington , " hold three parts in four of the territory , it is plain there can neither be any single person nor nobility able to dispute the ...
... true basis , most certainly , of a popular gov- ernment . " If the people , " says Har- rington , " hold three parts in four of the territory , it is plain there can neither be any single person nor nobility able to dispute the ...
Page 45
... true principle of a free and popu- lar government would seem to be , so to construct it as to give to all , or at least to a very great majority , an interest in its preservation ; to found it , as other things are founded , on men's ...
... true principle of a free and popu- lar government would seem to be , so to construct it as to give to all , or at least to a very great majority , an interest in its preservation ; to found it , as other things are founded , on men's ...
Page 46
... true , but it is not entirely so , and the evil , if it be one , would affect rather the progress of taste and literature , than the general prosperity of the people . But the promotion of taste and litera- ture cannot be primary ...
... true , but it is not entirely so , and the evil , if it be one , would affect rather the progress of taste and literature , than the general prosperity of the people . But the promotion of taste and litera- ture cannot be primary ...
Page 63
... true , we are but in a state of rebellion or of anarchy , and are only tolerated among civilized states because it has not yet been convenient to reduce us to the true standard . But the second , and , if possible , the still more ...
... true , we are but in a state of rebellion or of anarchy , and are only tolerated among civilized states because it has not yet been convenient to reduce us to the true standard . But the second , and , if possible , the still more ...
Contents
394 | |
407 | |
422 | |
445 | |
453 | |
471 | |
496 | |
569 | |
227 | |
273 | |
307 | |
320 | |
339 | |
347 | |
353 | |
359 | |
367 | |
575 | |
589 | |
598 | |
626 | |
639 | |
655 | |
694 | |
702 | |
Common terms and phrases
admitted adopted American appointed argument authority bank bill Bunker Hill Monument called cause character charity charter Christian civil Colonies commerce compact Congress Consti Constitution court court of equity Crownin Crowninshield Daniel Webster declared doctrine duty England eral ernment established executive government executive power exercise existing express favor feeling friends Gentlemen give grant gress Hampshire honorable member House human important interest John Adams judge Knapp labor land lative legislative legislature liberty Massachusetts means measure ment Mexico murder object occasion opinion party passed patriotism persons political present President principles proper provisions purpose question reason regard religion resolution respect Rhode Island Senate sentiments slave slavery South Carolina sovereign speech stitution supposed tariff of 1816 territory thing tion tive true truth tution Union United vote Webster Whig whole words
Popular passages
Page 163 - 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 269 - 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 269 - 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 256 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact : as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact...
Page 135 - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be, our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.
Page 343 - 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 517 - For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 462 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Page 16 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 597 - The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return.