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... were written , it was but natural that there should be some repetition of thought and form , but it has seemed best to republish them as they originally appeared . The address on Daniel Webster is included in this vol- PREFACE ix.
... were written , it was but natural that there should be some repetition of thought and form , but it has seemed best to republish them as they originally appeared . The address on Daniel Webster is included in this vol- PREFACE ix.
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Henry Norman Hudson Andrew Jackson George. The address on Daniel Webster is included in this vol- ume as being worthy of study beside those later tributes of Honorable S. W. McCall and Honorable George F. Hoar , given at the Webster ...
Henry Norman Hudson Andrew Jackson George. The address on Daniel Webster is included in this vol- ume as being worthy of study beside those later tributes of Honorable S. W. McCall and Honorable George F. Hoar , given at the Webster ...
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... DANIEL WEBSTER . A Discourse Delivered on the Hun- dredth Anniversary of the Death of Daniel Webster , January 18 , 1882 . APPENDIX NOTES . BOOKS QUOTED IN NOTES PAGE xiii 3 19 53 63 87 119 163 177 205 INTRODUCTION Henry Norman Hudson ...
... DANIEL WEBSTER . A Discourse Delivered on the Hun- dredth Anniversary of the Death of Daniel Webster , January 18 , 1882 . APPENDIX NOTES . BOOKS QUOTED IN NOTES PAGE xiii 3 19 53 63 87 119 163 177 205 INTRODUCTION Henry Norman Hudson ...
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... STUDIES PREFACE TO SCHOOL HAMLET ENGLISH IN SCHOOLS SHAKESPEARE AS A TEXT - BOOK HOW TO USE SHAKESPEARE IN SCHOOL PREFACE TO THE HARVARD EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE DANIEL WEBSTER PREFACE TO SCHOOL HAMLET Since the first volume of my.
... STUDIES PREFACE TO SCHOOL HAMLET ENGLISH IN SCHOOLS SHAKESPEARE AS A TEXT - BOOK HOW TO USE SHAKESPEARE IN SCHOOL PREFACE TO THE HARVARD EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE DANIEL WEBSTER PREFACE TO SCHOOL HAMLET Since the first volume of my.
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... Daniel Webster , who , it seems to me , is perhaps the only American author that ought to have been included in the list . This programme was drawn up for a course in English litera- 5 ture to be used in the public schools . Instead of ...
... Daniel Webster , who , it seems to me , is perhaps the only American author that ought to have been included in the list . This programme was drawn up for a course in English litera- 5 ture to be used in the public schools . Instead of ...
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Page 131 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 137 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 182 - Yet was there one thro' whom I loved her, one Not learned, save in gracious household ways, Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants, No angel, but a dearer being, all dipt In angel instincts, breathing Paradise...
Page 43 - I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
Page 108 - I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand, As if a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.
Page 75 - Joyous as morning Thou art laughing and scorning; Thou hast a nest for thy love and thy rest, And, though little troubled with sloth, Drunken Lark! thou would'st be loth To be such a traveller as I. Happy, happy Liver, With a soul as strong as a mountain river Pouring out praise to the Almighty Giver, Joy and jollity be with us both!
Page 98 - ... idle, unwholesome, and (as I may term them) vermiculate questions, which have indeed a kind of quickness and life of spirit, but no soundness of matter or goodness of quality.
Page 146 - I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my Country's, my God's, and Truth's. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career.
Page 146 - I mean to stand upon the Constitution. I need no other platform. I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's, and Truth's.
Page 166 - 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 ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original luster, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing...