The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasionsC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851 |
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... Gentlemen , I am a farmer , on the sea - shore , and have , of course , occasion to employ some degree of agricultural labor . I am sometimes also rowed out to sea , being , like other New England men , fond of occasionally catching a ...
... Gentlemen , I am a farmer , on the sea - shore , and have , of course , occasion to employ some degree of agricultural labor . I am sometimes also rowed out to sea , being , like other New England men , fond of occasionally catching a ...
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... Gentlemen , as merchants , what confidence can you place in such an administration ? Do you see any thing that they are disposed to do to restore the times you once enjoyed ? ( Loud cries of " No ! " " No ! " ) I perceive that your ...
... Gentlemen , as merchants , what confidence can you place in such an administration ? Do you see any thing that they are disposed to do to restore the times you once enjoyed ? ( Loud cries of " No ! " " No ! " ) I perceive that your ...
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... Gentlemen , a distinguished lover of liberty of our own time , in another hemisphere , said , with apparent paradox , that the quantity of liberty in any country is exactly equal to the quan- tity of restraint ; because , if government ...
... Gentlemen , a distinguished lover of liberty of our own time , in another hemisphere , said , with apparent paradox , that the quantity of liberty in any country is exactly equal to the quan- tity of restraint ; because , if government ...
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... GENTLEMEN , I have received your letter of the 8th instant , inviting me to a public dinner , and am duly sensible of the value of this proof of your regard . It will give me great pleasure to meet all my fellow - citizens , who may ...
... GENTLEMEN , I have received your letter of the 8th instant , inviting me to a public dinner , and am duly sensible of the value of this proof of your regard . It will give me great pleasure to meet all my fellow - citizens , who may ...
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... Gentlemen , while I receive these commendations which you have bestowed , I have an agreeable duty to perform to others . In the first place , I have great pleasure in bearing testimony to the intelligent interest manifested by the ...
... Gentlemen , while I receive these commendations which you have bestowed , I have an agreeable duty to perform to others . In the first place , I have great pleasure in bearing testimony to the intelligent interest manifested by the ...
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Seite 496 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Seite 213 - 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 508 - Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Seite 496 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Seite 508 - Having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honour of our King and country a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Seite 383 - And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Seite 223 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandise imported.
Seite 212 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...
Seite 303 - The general rule to be applied in graduating the duties upon articles of foreign growth or manufacture is that which will place our own in fair competition with those of other countries; and the inducements to advance even a step beyond this point are controlling in regard to those articles which are of primary necessity in time of war.
Seite 481 - if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : -gj.