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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... rising Republic , it would be impossible for us , if we were so disposed , to prevent our principles , our senti- ments , and our example , from producing some effect upon . the opinions and hopes of society throughout the civilized ...
... rising Republic , it would be impossible for us , if we were so disposed , to prevent our principles , our senti- ments , and our example , from producing some effect upon . the opinions and hopes of society throughout the civilized ...
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... rising of pennons , the flight , the pursuit and the victory ; but by their effect in advancing or retarding human knowledge , in overthrowing or establishing despo- tism , in extending or destroying human happiness . When the traveller ...
... rising of pennons , the flight , the pursuit and the victory ; but by their effect in advancing or retarding human knowledge , in overthrowing or establishing despo- tism , in extending or destroying human happiness . When the traveller ...
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... rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God , may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude . We wish , finally , that the last object on the sight of him ...
... rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God , may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude . We wish , finally , that the last object on the sight of him ...
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... rising like a meteor , like a meteor has fallen ; disgrace and disaster hang on the heels of con- quest and renown ; victor and vanquished presently pass away to oblivion , and the world goes on in its course , with the loss only of so ...
... rising like a meteor , like a meteor has fallen ; disgrace and disaster hang on the heels of con- quest and renown ; victor and vanquished presently pass away to oblivion , and the world goes on in its course , with the loss only of so ...
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... rising blessings of grateful millions might yet visit , with glad light , his decaying vision . " Alas ! that vision was then closing for ever . Alas ! the silence which was then settling on that aged ear , was an ever- lasting silence ...
... rising blessings of grateful millions might yet visit , with glad light , his decaying vision . " Alas ! that vision was then closing for ever . Alas ! the silence which was then settling on that aged ear , was an ever- lasting silence ...
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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.