Reminiscences of CongressBaker and Scribner, 1850 - 295 sidor |
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... never read it but his heart was stirred within him as at the sound of a trumpet . Mr. Webster was early very fond of poetry . He was not satisfied with reading it merely , but committed a great deal to memory . The whole Essay on Man he ...
... never read it but his heart was stirred within him as at the sound of a trumpet . Mr. Webster was early very fond of poetry . He was not satisfied with reading it merely , but committed a great deal to memory . The whole Essay on Man he ...
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... never been from home before , and who now found himself among some ninety other boys , a stranger among strangers , all of whom had probably seen more of the world , and assumed to know so much more of it , than himself . But he was not ...
... never been from home before , and who now found himself among some ninety other boys , a stranger among strangers , all of whom had probably seen more of the world , and assumed to know so much more of it , than himself . But he was not ...
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... never could command suf- ficient resolution . " Such diffidence of its own powers may be natural to genius , nervously fearful of being unable to reach that ideal which it proposes as the only full consummation of its wishes . It is ...
... never could command suf- ficient resolution . " Such diffidence of its own powers may be natural to genius , nervously fearful of being unable to reach that ideal which it proposes as the only full consummation of its wishes . It is ...
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... never entertained his mind a moment . A col- legiate education in those days was something of far greater importance than in these , when the ability to command it is so general . It made a marked man of thousands . It gave the ...
... never entertained his mind a moment . A col- legiate education in those days was something of far greater importance than in these , when the ability to command it is so general . It made a marked man of thousands . It gave the ...
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... never so completely mastered . At Boscawen , Mr. Webster was fortunate to find another circulating library , the volumes of which he fully appreciated . It was in this library , he met , for the first time , Don Quixote , in English ...
... never so completely mastered . At Boscawen , Mr. Webster was fortunate to find another circulating library , the volumes of which he fully appreciated . It was in this library , he met , for the first time , Don Quixote , in English ...
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ability action Adams adjourn administration agitated Andrew Jackson argument attack audience bank Benton bill Calhoun canvass character Clay Colonel Hayne's conduct Congress Constitution contest countenance Court danger Daniel Webster Dartmouth College debate defended distinguished duty earnest eloquence eminent England equal excitement expression father favor fearful feeling felt force Force Bill Forsyth friends Fryeburg gained gave gentleman Grundy Hampshire heart Henry Clay honorable House intellectual Jackson JOHN QUINCY ADAMS judge Knapp knew language less manner Massachusetts measure ment merit mind moral motion murder Nathan Dane never nullification occasion opinion opponents orator party Poindexter political popular position President principles question racter reply to Hayne resolution respect seat seemed Senate Senator of Virginia sentiment South Carolina speaker speech spoke Tariff thought tion took truth Tyler Union United Virginia voice vote Webster whole words
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Sida 147 - 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!
Sida 141 - 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.
Sida 211 - And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Sida 135 - 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 have driven him from his true 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 be able to conjecture where we now are. I ask for the reading of the resolution...
Sida 172 - It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder ; no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe I Ah, gentlemen ! that was a dreadful mistake ! Such a secret can be safe nowhere.
Sida 167 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Sida 44 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Sida 134 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.
Sida 173 - He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstances to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Sida 238 - This, Sir, is practical nullification. And now, Sir, against all these theories and opinions, I maintain, — 1. That the Constitution of the United States is not a league, confederacy, or compact between the people of the several States in their sovereign capacities ; but a government proper, founded on the adoption of the people, and creating direct relations between itself and individuals.
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