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... seat , I could not raise myself from it . Sometimes the instructors frowned , sometimes they smiled . Mr. Buckminster always pressed and entreated , most winning- ly , that I would venture . But I never could command suf- ficient ...
... seat , I could not raise myself from it . Sometimes the instructors frowned , sometimes they smiled . Mr. Buckminster always pressed and entreated , most winning- ly , that I would venture . But I never could command suf- ficient ...
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... seat at the extra session in May , 1813 . What has been written thus far , relates rather to the pri- vate life of Mr. Webster ; what follows concerns , mostly , his public ; as gathered from the records and contemporaneous testimony ...
... seat at the extra session in May , 1813 . What has been written thus far , relates rather to the pri- vate life of Mr. Webster ; what follows concerns , mostly , his public ; as gathered from the records and contemporaneous testimony ...
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... seats where they could not see the speaker , face to face , and sat down , or stood on the floor , fronting him . All listened attentively and silently , during the whole speech ; and when it was over , many went up and warmly ...
... seats where they could not see the speaker , face to face , and sat down , or stood on the floor , fronting him . All listened attentively and silently , during the whole speech ; and when it was over , many went up and warmly ...
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... was an impressive occasion . Not only were all the seats of members occupied , but many senators attend- ed , and a large miscellaneous crowd . The war which he had been most active in hastening , and most energetic in DANIEL WEBSTER . 43.
... was an impressive occasion . Not only were all the seats of members occupied , but many senators attend- ed , and a large miscellaneous crowd . The war which he had been most active in hastening , and most energetic in DANIEL WEBSTER . 43.
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... seat in the Speaker's chair , his towering height even more conspicuous than usual , I could not but call to mind Vernon's descrip- tion of Henry , Prince of Wales , in Shakspeare : " I saw young Harry , with his beaver on , His cuisses ...
... seat in the Speaker's chair , his towering height even more conspicuous than usual , I could not but call to mind Vernon's descrip- tion of Henry , Prince of Wales , in Shakspeare : " I saw young Harry , with his beaver on , His cuisses ...
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Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 134 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.
Page 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.
Page 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.