A Memoir of the Life of Daniel WebsterStimpson and Clapp, 1831 - 234 ページ |
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... occasion required . His opinions passed for law with the court and jury , and the weight of his character was felt in every cause in which he was engaged . With these and others of eminence , Mr. Webster had to contend at an age when ...
... occasion required . His opinions passed for law with the court and jury , and the weight of his character was felt in every cause in which he was engaged . With these and others of eminence , Mr. Webster had to contend at an age when ...
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... occasion , an address with a string of resolutions were proposed for adoption , of which he was said to be the author . They exhibited uncommon powers of intellect and a profound knowledge of our national interests . He made a most ...
... occasion , an address with a string of resolutions were proposed for adoption , of which he was said to be the author . They exhibited uncommon powers of intellect and a profound knowledge of our national interests . He made a most ...
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... occasion with stating , shortly and generally , the sentiments of the select committee , as I understand them , on the subject of this resolution . Two questions naturally present themselves . In the first place , have the people a ...
... occasion with stating , shortly and generally , the sentiments of the select committee , as I understand them , on the subject of this resolution . Two questions naturally present themselves . In the first place , have the people a ...
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... occasion , and had advised the proceeding on the part of the crown , was made chief - justice for the very purpose of giving a judg- ment in favor of the crown ; his predecessor being re- moved to make room for him . Since the ...
... occasion , and had advised the proceeding on the part of the crown , was made chief - justice for the very purpose of giving a judg- ment in favor of the crown ; his predecessor being re- moved to make room for him . Since the ...
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... occasion . The tongue of the people may be considered as a ' chartered instrument , ' it speaks right on , and is not often muzzled nor tied . But even men in high places were influenced by public feeling , and Mr. Monroe in his message ...
... occasion . The tongue of the people may be considered as a ' chartered instrument , ' it speaks right on , and is not often muzzled nor tied . But even men in high places were influenced by public feeling , and Mr. Monroe in his message ...
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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.