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... success of Henry Clay , I would freely lay it down this day , " exclaimed an old Rhode Island sea - captain on the morning of the Presidential election of 1844. Who has forgotten the passion of disappointment , the amazement and despair ...
... success of Henry Clay , I would freely lay it down this day , " exclaimed an old Rhode Island sea - captain on the morning of the Presidential election of 1844. Who has forgotten the passion of disappointment , the amazement and despair ...
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... success in life to a habit early formed , and for some years continued , of reading daily in a book of history or science , and declaiming the substance of what he had read in some solitary place , a cornfield , the forest , a barn ...
... success in life to a habit early formed , and for some years continued , of reading daily in a book of history or science , and declaiming the substance of what he had read in some solitary place , a cornfield , the forest , a barn ...
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... success of the enemy , embracing and announcing the joyous tidings to those who I supposed would transmit it to the proper place . I was never known to receive the successes of my own country with trembling , with sighs , with my eyes ...
... success of the enemy , embracing and announcing the joyous tidings to those who I supposed would transmit it to the proper place . I was never known to receive the successes of my own country with trembling , with sighs , with my eyes ...
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... successful and lucra- tive practice . " In a year and a half he was in a position to marry the daughter of one of the first men of the State , Colonel Thomas Hart , a man exceedingly beloved in Lexington . It is surprising how addicted ...
... successful and lucra- tive practice . " In a year and a half he was in a position to marry the daughter of one of the first men of the State , Colonel Thomas Hart , a man exceedingly beloved in Lexington . It is surprising how addicted ...
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... successful practitioner , such as Kentucky wanted and could appreciate . In a very few years he was the possessor of a fine estate near Lex- ington , and to the single slave who came to him as his share of his father's property were ...
... successful practitioner , such as Kentucky wanted and could appreciate . In a very few years he was the possessor of a fine estate near Lex- ington , and to the single slave who came to him as his share of his father's property were ...
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Сторінка 17 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.
Сторінка 25 - 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 53 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Сторінка 87 - 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 honor, but shall moulder to dry ashes in his grasp. In the midst of his exultation, it pierces his ear with the cry of injured justice, it denounces against him the indignation of an enlightened and civilized age ; it turns to bitterness the cup of his...
Сторінка 151 - Webster, leaning back at his ease, telling stories, cracking jokes, shaking the sofa with burst after burst of laughter, or smoothly discoursing to the perfect felicity of the logical part of one's constitution, would illuminate an evening now and then. Mr. Calhoun, the cast-iron man, who looks as if he had never been born and could never be extinguished...
Сторінка 90 - Plymouth, to extirpate and destroy it. It is not fit that the land of the Pilgrims should bear the shame longer. I hear the sound of the hammer, I see the smoke of the furnaces where manacles and fetters are still forged for human limbs. I see the visages of those, who by stealth, and at midnight, labor in this work of hell, foul and dark, as may become the artificers of such instruments of misery and torture. Let that spot be purified, or let it cease to be of New England. Let it be purified, or...
Сторінка 177 - 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 88 - 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.
Сторінка 119 - 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 of hell?
Сторінка 105 - I would not notice things of this sort appearing in obscure quarters; but one thing has occurred in this debate which struck me very forcibly. An honorable member from Louisiana addressed us the other day on this subject. I suppose there is not a more amiable and worthy gentleman in this chamber, nor a gentleman who would be more slow to give offence to any body, and he did not mean in his remarks to give offence.