The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, with a Critical Essay on His Genius and WritingsJ. and H.G. Langley, 1839 - 95 Seiten |
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... connected with its existence , to allow future generations to leave it to ruin . The following remarks must be under- stood to be made without reference to political party , although it is difficult to regard Mr. Webster in an isolated ...
... connected with its existence , to allow future generations to leave it to ruin . The following remarks must be under- stood to be made without reference to political party , although it is difficult to regard Mr. Webster in an isolated ...
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... connected with their own exercise of authority . They may not , indeed , always understand their own motives . The love of power may sink too deep in their hearts even for their own scrutiny , and may pass with themselves for mere ...
... connected with their own exercise of authority . They may not , indeed , always understand their own motives . The love of power may sink too deep in their hearts even for their own scrutiny , and may pass with themselves for mere ...
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... connected with this occasion too strong to be resisted , a sort of genius of the place , which inspires and awes us . We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene of our History was laid ; where the hearths and altars of New ...
... connected with this occasion too strong to be resisted , a sort of genius of the place , which inspires and awes us . We feel that we are on the spot where the first scene of our History was laid ; where the hearths and altars of New ...
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... connected with high intellectual and moral endowments . Clearness , force , and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction . True eloquence , indeed , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and ...
... connected with high intellectual and moral endowments . Clearness , force , and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction . True eloquence , indeed , does not consist in speech . It cannot be brought from far . Labor and ...
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... connected , fast bound up , in fortune and by fate , with these great interests ; if they fall , we fall with them ; if they stand , it will be because we have upholden them . Let us contemplate , then , this connexion , which binds the ...
... connected , fast bound up , in fortune and by fate , with these great interests ; if they fall , we fall with them ; if they stand , it will be because we have upholden them . Let us contemplate , then , this connexion , which binds the ...
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affection AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE ages ALEXANDER HAMILTON American Liberty ancestors beauty behold benign blessings blood bosom BUNKER HILL cause character Christian commenced common conscience constitutional liberty contemplate conviction dangerous DANIEL WEBSTER defence ductions duty earth England English language excited executive power exercise existence fame fathers feeling feudal system future genius Gentlemen glory happiness HARVARD COLLEGE heart heaven honor human influence institutions intelligence interest irresistible impulse jealous JOHN JAY judge judgment jury trials justice knowledge labors land light live look Massachusetts ment mighty mind moral MORAL EXAMPLE nations nature neral onward partake pass passion patriotism peace Pilgrims Plymouth political present preservation principles prosperity pular regard religious liberty render resistance restraint revolution rising sentiment shore solemn spirit of liberty stand thing thousand tion triumphs true Union United vision Webster whole wise wish
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Seite 91 - 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 the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Seite 26 - And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit.
Seite 45 - He has allowed you to behold and to partake the reward of your patriotic toils; and he has allowed us, your sons and countrymen, to meet you here, and in the name of the present generation, in the name of your country, in the name of liberty, to thank you!
Seite 66 - Ah! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it and say it is safe.
Seite 56 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable, in speech, farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments.
Seite 57 - 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.
Seite 26 - If discord and disunion shall wound 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,...
Seite 22 - It was against the recital of an act of Parliament, rather than against any suffering under its enactments, that they took up arms. They went to war against a preamble. They fought seven years against a declaration.
Seite 64 - England society, let him not give it the grim visage of Moloch, the brow knitted by revenge, the face black with settled hate, and the blood-shot eye emitting livid fires of malice.
Seite 25 - Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history: the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill — and there they will remain forever.