 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...preparation. The opening of Webster's rejoinder to Hayne is novel and striking: Mr. President.—When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick...imitate this prudence, and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 364 pages
...preparation. The opening of Webster's rejoinder to Hayne is novel and striking: Mr. President. — When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, anil on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 818 pages
...forth in Mr. Everett's Memoir, prefixed to the first volume of Mr. Webster's Works.] MR. PRESIDENT, — When the mariner has been tossed for many days in...imitate this prudence, and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able... | |
 | Vermont State Medical Society - 1886 - 812 pages
...BBATTLEBORO, VT. When Daniel Webster commenced his famous reply to Hayne, he prefaced it by remarking that—" When the mariner has been tossed for many days, in...from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence," said he, " and before we float further, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least... | |
 | Harry A. Lewis - 1887 - 534 pages
...Senate. His exordium is known by heart everywhere. "Mr. President when the mariner has been tossed about for many days in thick weather and on an unknown sea...course. Let us imitate this prudence and before we float further on the waves of this debate refer to the point from which we departed that we may at least... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1887 - 414 pages
...apparently by the atmosphere of intense feeling about him, he said, in a low, even tone : " Mr. President : When the mariner has been tossed for many days in...glance of the sun, to take his latitude and ascertain howfar the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence ; and, before... | |
 | Charles Burr Todd - 1889 - 464 pages
...him to win, as though they were but one, their wills and sympathies. He begins : " Mr. President : When the mariner has been tossed for many days in...imitate this prudence ; and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may, at least, be able... | |
 | Albert Von Haller Carpenter - 1890 - 184 pages
...United States Senate, in reply to General Hayne, as follows : MR. PRESIDENT — When themarinerhas been tossed for many days in thick weather and on...Let us imitate this prudence, and before we float further on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1890 - 644 pages
...Webster rose and addressed the Senate. His exordium is known by heart everywhere : " Mr. President, when the mariner has been tossed, for many days, in...of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how fur the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and, before we... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1892 - 382 pages
...enterprise." Daniel Webster begins his great speech, " In Reply to Hayne," with this illustration : — " When the mariner has been tossed for many days in...the elements have driven him from his true course." Edward Everett ends his oration on " The Importance of Scientific Knowledge" with this illustration:... | |
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President, when the mariner has been tossed, for many days, in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements... 
