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... thousand dol- lars , and other large debts weighed heavily upon his soul , and he feared to be compelled to sell the home of fifty years and seek a strange abode , a few old friends secretly raised the needful sum , secretly paid the ...
... thousand dol- lars , and other large debts weighed heavily upon his soul , and he feared to be compelled to sell the home of fifty years and seek a strange abode , a few old friends secretly raised the needful sum , secretly paid the ...
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... 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 owed his success in life to a habit early formed , and for some ...
... 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 owed his success in life to a habit early formed , and for some ...
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... thousand . His mother , with 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 ...
... thousand . His mother , with 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 ...
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... thousand dollars ' worth of government bonds ? Calhoun precipitated the country into a war with Mex- ico ; but what did he gain by it but new bitterness of disap- pointment , while the winner of three little battles was elected ...
... thousand dollars ' worth of government bonds ? Calhoun precipitated the country into a war with Mex- ico ; but what did he gain by it but new bitterness of disap- pointment , while the winner of three little battles was elected ...
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... thousand armed men have since sprung up from those harmless - looking dragon's teeth , so recklessly sown in the hot Southern soil . Of the three men whom we have named , Daniel Webster was incomparably the most richly endowed by nature ...
... thousand armed men have since sprung up from those harmless - looking dragon's teeth , so recklessly sown in the hot Southern soil . Of the three men whom we have named , Daniel Webster was incomparably the most richly endowed by nature ...
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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.