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... five persons in a small room can learn to move or instruct two thousand in a large one . That Henry Clay cultivated his oratorical talent in Rich- mond , we have his own explicit testimony . He told a class of law students once that he ...
... five persons in a small room can learn to move or instruct two thousand in a large one . That Henry Clay cultivated his oratorical talent in Rich- mond , we have his own explicit testimony . He told a class of law students once that he ...
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... five of her children and a second husband , had gone thither five years before . In 1797 Henry Clay removed to Lexington , the new State's oldest town and capital , though then containing , it is said , but fifty houses . He was a ...
... five of her children and a second husband , had gone thither five years before . In 1797 Henry Clay removed to Lexington , the new State's oldest town and capital , though then containing , it is said , but fifty houses . He was a ...
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... bred ; but he evidently felt this apparent injustice . Some years later , when it was proposed in Congress to pension Commodore Perry's mother , Mr. Clay , in a speech of five minutes , totally extinguished the 24 HENRY CLAY .
... bred ; but he evidently felt this apparent injustice . Some years later , when it was proposed in Congress to pension Commodore Perry's mother , Mr. Clay , in a speech of five minutes , totally extinguished the 24 HENRY CLAY .
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James Parton. in a speech of five minutes , totally extinguished the proposi- tion . Pointing to the vast rewards bestowed upon such success- ful soldiers as Marlborough , Napoleon , and Wellington , he said , with thrilling effect ...
James Parton. in a speech of five minutes , totally extinguished the proposi- tion . Pointing to the vast rewards bestowed upon such success- ful soldiers as Marlborough , Napoleon , and Wellington , he said , with thrilling effect ...
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... five dollars " a corner . " These , we know , were the stakes at Ghent , where he played whist for many months with the British Commissioners during the negotiations for peace in 1815. We mention his whist - playing only as part of the ...
... five dollars " a corner . " These , we know , were the stakes at Ghent , where he played whist for many months with the British Commissioners during the negotiations for peace in 1815. We mention his whist - playing only as part of the ...
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Сторінка 140 - This can be done without implicating the government. Let it be signified to me through any channel (say Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished.
Сторінка 19 - By these operations new channels of communication will be opened between the States, the lines of separation will disappear, their interests will be identified, and their union cemented by new and indissoluble ties.
Сторінка 27 - The only case in which, on mere principles of political economy, protecting duties can be defensible, is when they are imposed temporarily, (especially in a young and rising nation,) in hopes of naturalizing a foreign industry, in itself perfectly suitable to the circumstances of the country.
Сторінка 108 - The bonds of the slaves were bound more firmly than before, their rivets were more strongly fastened. Public opinion, which in Virginia had begun to be exhibited against slavery, and was opening out for the discussion of the question, drew back and shut itself up in its castle.
Сторінка 27 - But it cannot be expected that individuals should at their own risk, or rather to their certain loss, introduce a new manufacture, and bear the burden of carrying it on until the producers have been educated up to the level of those with whom the processes are traditional. A protecting duty, continued for a reasonable time, will sometimes be the least inconvenient mode in which the nation can tax itself for the support of such an experiment.
Сторінка 179 - If the several States in the Union are to become one entire Nation, under one Legislature, the Powers of which shall extend to every Subject of Legislation, and its Laws be supreme & controul the whole, the Idea of Sovereignty in these States must be lost.
Сторінка 121 - We have now reached the consummation of democratic blessedness. We have a country governed by blockheads and knaves ; the ties of marriage with all its felicities are severed and destroyed ; our wives and daughters are thrown into the stews ; our children are cast into the world from the breast and forgotten ; filial piety is extinguished, and our surnames, the only mark of distinction among families, are abolished. Can the imagination paint anything more dreadful on this side hell?
Сторінка 89 - It is already able to oppose the most formidable obstruction to the progress of injustice and oppression ; and as it grows more intelligent and more intense, it will be more and more formidable. It may be silenced by military power, but it cannot be conquered. It is elastic, irrepressible, and invulnerable to the weapons of ordinary warfare. It is that impassible, unextinguishable enemy of mere violence and arbitrary rule, which, like Milton's angels, " Vital in every part, Cannot, but by annihilating,...
Сторінка 89 - There is an enemy that still exists to check the glory of these triumphs. It follows the conqueror back to the very scene of his ovations ; it calls upon him to take notice that Europe, though silent, is yet indignant ; it shows him that the sceptre of his victory is a barren sceptre ; that it shall confer neither joy nor honour, but shall moulder to dry ashes in his grasp. In the midst of his exultation, it pierces his ear with the cry of injured...
Сторінка 90 - It is enough that I do not feel myself bound, at all times and under any circumstances, to accept from any man, who shall choose to risk his own life, an invitation of this sort; although I shall be always prepared to repel in a suitable manner the aggression of any man who may presume upon such a refusal.