A Memoir of the Life of Daniel WebsterStimpson and Clapp, 1831 - 234 ページ |
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... institutions in the country . This , with its twin sister , Phillips's Andover academy , was founded and liberally endowed by the Phillips fam- ily - a name identified with the literature , science , and theology of the country . The ...
... institutions in the country . This , with its twin sister , Phillips's Andover academy , was founded and liberally endowed by the Phillips fam- ily - a name identified with the literature , science , and theology of the country . The ...
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... institution which has produced no ordinary share of distinguished men in every walk of life . There is one feature in the character of that college 8 LIFE OF WEBSTER . and affectionate manners; a man admirably calculated ...
... institution which has produced no ordinary share of distinguished men in every walk of life . There is one feature in the character of that college 8 LIFE OF WEBSTER . and affectionate manners; a man admirably calculated ...
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... institution the power of suspending specie payments at will , and thereby destroying public credit . The treaty of Ghent soon followed , and public credit was , in some measure revived ; but still there was an evil in collecting the ...
... institution the power of suspending specie payments at will , and thereby destroying public credit . The treaty of Ghent soon followed , and public credit was , in some measure revived ; but still there was an evil in collecting the ...
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... institution called by the act of the Legislature , The Dartmouth University , ' went into operation , as far as existing ... institutions were highly respectable , and capable of building up any literary and 30 LIFE OF WEBSTER .
... institution called by the act of the Legislature , The Dartmouth University , ' went into operation , as far as existing ... institutions were highly respectable , and capable of building up any literary and 30 LIFE OF WEBSTER .
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... institutions might survive the quarrel . The records , charter and the evidence of the college property , were in the hands of the new treasurer , and an action of trover was brought by the trustees of Dartmouth College to recover them ...
... institutions might survive the quarrel . The records , charter and the evidence of the college property , were in the hands of the new treasurer , and an action of trover was brought by the trustees of Dartmouth College to recover them ...
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80 ページ - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence ; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
162 ページ - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now. and forever, one and inseparable.
160 ページ - I profess, sir, in my career, hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union.
151 ページ - Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire and report the quantity of public lands remaining unsold within each State and Territory, and whether it be expedient to limit for a certain period the sales of the public lands...
79 ページ - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction.
160 ページ - Mr. President, I have thus stated the reasons of my dissent to the doctrines which have been advanced and maintained. I am conscious of having detained you and the Senate much too long. I was drawn into the debate with no previous deliberation, such as is suited to the discussion 197 of so grave and important a subject.
127 ページ - Hall, as far as I now remember, was that this was originally matter of doubtful construction. The gentleman himself, I suppose, thinks there is no doubt about it, and that the laws are plainly against the Constitution. Mr. Madison's letters already referred to contain, in my judgment, by far the most able exposition extant of this part of the Constitution. He has satisfied me, so far as the practice of the government had left it an open question. With a great majority of the Representatives of Massachusetts,...
36 ページ - Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty and property, according to standing laws.
156 ページ - I understand him to maintain an authority, on the part of the States, thus to interfere, for the purpose of correcting the exercise of power by the general government, of checking it and of compelling it to conform to their opinion of the extent of its powers. I understand him to maintain that the ultimate...
159 ページ - But while the people choose to maintain it as it is, while they are satisfied with it and refuse to change it, who has given or who can give to the State legislatures a right to alter it, either by interference, construction, or otherwise ? Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves.