The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Legal arguments and speeches to the jury, diplomatic and official papers, and miscellaneous lettersC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851 |
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... circumstances indicating the utmost coolness , deliberation , and audacity , deeply agitated and aroused the whole community ; inge- nuity was baffled in attempting even to conjecture a motive for the deed ; and all the citizens were ...
... circumstances indicating the utmost coolness , deliberation , and audacity , deeply agitated and aroused the whole community ; inge- nuity was baffled in attempting even to conjecture a motive for the deed ; and all the citizens were ...
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... circumstances as to create a strong sensation in that town and throughout the community . Richard Crowninshield , George Crowninshield , Joseph J. Knapp , and John F. Knapp were , a few weeks after , arrested on a charge of hav ing ...
... circumstances as to create a strong sensation in that town and throughout the community . Richard Crowninshield , George Crowninshield , Joseph J. Knapp , and John F. Knapp were , a few weeks after , arrested on a charge of hav ing ...
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... circumstances now clearly in evidence spread out the whole scene before us . Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim , and on all beneath his roof . A healthful old man , to whom sleep was sweet , the first sound slumbers of the ...
... circumstances now clearly in evidence spread out the whole scene before us . Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim , and on all beneath his roof . A healthful old man , to whom sleep was sweet , the first sound slumbers of the ...
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... circumstance , con- nected with the time and place ; a thousand ears catch every whisper ; a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene , shedding all their light , and ready to kindle the slightest circum- stance into a blaze ...
... circumstance , con- nected with the time and place ; a thousand ears catch every whisper ; a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene , shedding all their light , and ready to kindle the slightest circum- stance into a blaze ...
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... circumstance about it to soften its enormity . It is murder ; deliberate , concerted , malicious murder . Although the interest of this case may have diminished by the repeated investigation of the facts ; still , the additional labor ...
... circumstance about it to soften its enormity . It is murder ; deliberate , concerted , malicious murder . Although the interest of this case may have diminished by the repeated investigation of the facts ; still , the additional labor ...
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Seite 111 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and egress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...
Seite 548 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest,...
Seite 547 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Seite 588 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Seite 600 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water, seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Seite 298 - Government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.
Seite 573 - It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Seite 151 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Seite 477 - I have received the letter which you did me the honor to address to me, under date of the...
Seite 364 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other...